The armyman secured a whopping 7325 points to better V.S. Chauhan's effort of 7306, set at the Munich Olympics in 1972.
Some farmer outfits on Friday threw their weight behind the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) woman constable who allegedly slapped actor and Bharatiya Janata Party MP-elect Kangana Ranaut, saying the entire sequence leading to the incident needs to be properly investigated.
The CISF, tasked with providing security at airports, has also ordered a court of inquiry into the incident.
Film folk celebrate Mother's Day with white parties and heartfelt notes.
Gangster Sukhdul Singh alias Sukha Duneke, one of Punjab's most wanted criminals, was killed in the Canadian city of Winnipeg by unidentified people, sources said on Thursday.
Bollywood stars celebrate Women's Day on March 8 in a special way.
Bollywood stars shower their moms with love on Mother's Day by sharing cute throwback pix.
The De De Pyaar De actress was accompanied by her family and posted lovely pictures from her holiday.
When stars travel, they make lovely pictures on social media.
Twenty days on, life has settled into a routine for protesting farmers who are devising ways to crack the code of living through an agitation with no immediate end in sight.
This is just one of the many cases recorded in the new report of the Human Rights Watch and Ensaaf. The 123 -page report, 'Protecting the Killers: A Policy of Impunity in Punjab, India' examines the challenges faced by victims and their relatives in pursuing legal avenues for accountability.
Hardip Singh and his wife, Kulwinder Kaur, were thrashed in an area falling under Bhaini Mian Khan police station on May 13 with a video of the incident going viral on social media.
Indian-British filmmaker Amit Gupta speaks to Aseem Chhabra about combing his love for food and cinema
Four modules of Sikh separatist group Babbar Khalsa International, arrested for planning to target religious figures, were on Wednesday sentenced to imprisonment already undergone after they pleaded guilty for being member of the banned outfit.
The Delhi high court on Tuesday denied bail to three persons, convicted along with 12 others in the 2010 Mirchpur Dalit killings case. A bench of justices S Ravindra Bhat and S P Garg dismissed the interim bail applications of convicts Kulwinder, Dharambir and Ramphal, after perusing the reports furnished by the senior superintendent of police of Hissar district in Haryana.
The Punjab government on Thursday gave Rs 5 lakh as financial assistance to Surjeet Singh, who spent almost 30 years of his life in a Pakistan jail, and a government job to his son.
Three persons were sentenced to life imprisonment by a Delhi court on Monday for their involvement in the killings of a 70-year-old Dalit and his physically-challenged daughter at Haryana's Mirchpur village in April last year. While sentencing Kulwinder, Ramphal and Rajender to life term, Additional Sessions Judge Kamini Lau sentenced five others to varying jail terms up to five years while letting off seven others on probation for one year.
Last week Vineet Nayyar, the CEO of Satyam's new owner Tech Mahindra, had said Satyam has an excess staff of 10,000.
A 3-1 victory over Delhi in the final gave the defending champions the title. Indian Oil finished third.
A 60-year-old Dalit man and his physically challenged daughter were burnt alive by members of the Jat community in Mirchpur village in Haryana's Hisar district in April 2010.
The former trounced CRPF while the policemen got the better of Indian Oil in the semi-finals of the \n\nthe Shivaji hockey tournament.
A 32-year-old Indian woman has died in Australia after suffering serious burn injuries, prompting police to launch a probe into her "horrendous and horrific" death.
Rahul Gandhi on Thursday visited the family of a debt-ridden farmer, who committed suicide last week, barely a month after he had met the Congress vice president to apprise him of farmers' woes.
Three Indians have joined a Sikh rights group in filing an amended lawsuit appealing a US court to designate the RSS as a "terror group".
It was not clear why the Indian was not executed while four other convicts were put to death by the firing squad.
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Monday
It was the last conversation which was made on the SP's phone, which is believed to be used by the terrorists to make calls to Pakistan.
Family members praised the government, saying it was a revenge taken by the armed forces for the martyrdom of soldiers in the Pulwama terror attack.
The IAF received a total of 13 awards including five Yudh Seva Medals and seven Vayu Sena Medal.
She said no government can declare anyone dead without proof and her government does not believe in the theory of 'missing, believed to be killed'.
Cores of houses and other structures along the IB in Jammu district are riddled with ammunition from across the border.
Bollystars post their mums's pix: A Mother's Day special.
'We need more than assurances from political parties,' say relatives of the 39 Indian workers who have been missing in Iraq since June last year. Rediff.com contributor Upasna Pandey reports
Security forces' operation to eliminate the militants in Pindi Kathar area of R S Pura in Jammu and Kashmir is still in progress.
The Gurdaspur SP's jeweller friend Rajesh Verma said the militants who had abducted them were in constant touch with a "commander sahib" and called him at regular intervals.
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