A 25-year-old man was allegedly shot dead by his neighbour in Greater Noida's Sakipur village following a dispute over burning of drain waste. The main accused was arrested after an encounter with police.
A procession of devotees returning from a Durga temple in Ghaziabad was allegedly attacked, with reports of stone-pelting, leading to tensions in the Kaila Bhatta area. Police have taken 10 people into custody and are investigating the incident.
Amritsar Police arrested four individuals linked to a cross-border arms smuggling module, recovering seven sophisticated pistols. The investigation revealed connections to Pakistan-based smugglers using drones for delivery.
A 19-year-old man in Maharashtra's Beed district allegedly murdered his father by hitting him with a stone while he was asleep. Police are searching for the suspect, who fled the scene.
Punjab Police have arrested four individuals and seized ten firearms, dismantling an inter-state illegal arms supply module operating between Bihar and Punjab.
Sajan Prakash clocked 1:51.57sec to finish fourth in his heat and 43rd overall at the World Aquatics Championships in Singapore.
A couple was found dead in a rented house in Kottayam, Kerala, with police suspecting suicide due to financial difficulties. The couple's child was found unharmed at the scene.
India claimed four bronze medals on the final day to wrap up their most successful Asian Aquatics Championships with 13 medals even as China asserted their dominance by winning a staggering 49 medals, including 38 gold, in Ahmedabad on Wednesday.
Kamini Kaushal, who began her career with the 1946 classic Neecha Nagar and went on to act in a host of films right till 2022, passed away in her Mumbai home on Thursday night.
In the men's 800m freestyle, Aryan Nehra finished 23rd, with an under par time of 8:21.30s to bring the curtains down on his campaign. Only the top eight progressed to the final.
The song that best encapsulates Geeta Dutt's unfairly abbreviated life would probably be: Yaad Karoge, Yaad Karoge, Ek Din Humko Yaad Karoge. On her 95th birth anniversary on November 23, Dinesh Raheja pieces together the life of this talented singer.
Can anyone forget S D Burman's classic songs in Devdas, Sujata and Bandini?
Dinesh Raheja celebrates Lata's 96th birth anniversary on September 28 by picking some choice examples of her non-typical songs that are tinged with a rare eroticism.
'Guru Dutt taught me that pitying oneself can be beautiful, and that heartbreak is cinematic.'
Services remained on top of the medal table with 41 gold, 28 silver and 26 bronze for a total of 95. Haryana won four of the five gold medals in archery to consolidate their second place with 29 gold.
Butterfly swimmer Sajan Prakash's journey from injury to Olympics 'A' cut.
Members of the film industry trouped in to say their last goodbyes to Manoj Kumar at a prayer meet held on Sunday evening.
'I would say cut down another 0.5 seconds and it's possible in this case and that will take me 1:55:8, something that will surely get me into the semi-finals, and maybe towards the final as well.'
The Kerala swimmer has been continuously improving his performance in the 200m butterfly event.
Teenage sensation Dhinidhi Desinghu continued her impressive performance at the 38th National Games, winning her fifth gold medal as Karnataka dominated the swimming events.
Shailendra's songs were attuned to Raj Kapoor's explorations of the themes and dreams of the Everyman.
With the two gold on Monday, Desinghu has won nine medals so far in the Games, having earlier won five gold (200m freestyle, 100m butterfly, 4x100m freestyle relay and 50m freestyle and 4x200m freestyle relay), one silver (50m butterfly) and one bronze -- (4x100m relay medley).
Logistical issues at the National Games have left swimmers and officials grappling with inadequate arrangements, as their accommodations are located far away from the venue in Haldwani.
At the brand new Trishul Shooting Range in Dehradun, Haryana's Asian Games bronze medallist shooter Ramita Jindal turned in a world class performance to top the qualification round in the women's 10m air rifle event.
Shooter Manu Bhaker won two bronze medals at the 2024 Paris Olympics while Gukesh was crowned the World Chess Champion in Singapore, last month.
The estimated costs of these weddings start from Rs 100 crore and go up to Rs 700 crore.
Young Indian swimmers Sajan Prakash and Shivani Kataria expectedly made inglorious exits in their respective events at the 2016 Rio Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro on Monday.
Nataraj and Desinghu are tipped to become the best male and female athletes of the Games.
The para-athletes outnumbered the able-bodied ones in the list this time due to the magnificent Paris Paralympics performance in which they returned with 29 medals, including seven gold and nine silver.
The family of Indian swimmer Sajan Prakash kept news of a devastating flood in his home state of Kerala away from him so it did not affect his Asian Games performance, the 24-year-old told Reuters on Tuesday.
India's Sajan Prakash and Advait Page finished fifth and seventh in their respective finals to draw curtains on the country's swimming campaign at the Asian Games in Hangzhou on Friday.
Nataraj, who competed at the Tokyo Olympics, clocked 25.50 seconds to finish second on the podium behind Hungary's Adam Jaszo, who touched the pad in 25.46s.
Sukanya Verma remembers some of his greatest solo numbers in our fondly curated playlist.
There is a lot more to Bollywood than the unguarded glimpses Showtime offers, observes Deepa Gahlot.
Gehlot lost 0-2 to Okuno in the summit clash to emulate Ravinder (61kg), who also won a silver earlier this week.
Rammu Guru, the head priest of the temple, said, "Sai Baba was being worshiped without proper knowledge, which is forbidden according to scriptures."
The Indian men's 4x100m medley relay team swam a sensational heat, obliterating the national record to enter the final of the Asian Games in Hangzhou on Tuesday.
'I went to jail and met my father to convince him to join politics and believe in the Constitution.'
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Tanish, Srihari, and Anand had previously contributed to setting the national record with a time of 3:23.72 at the 2019 Asian Age Group Championships.
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