Schedule of Indian athletes on Sunday, the ninth .day of the Beijing Olympics.
The home ministry on Thursday announced the Padma awards which included five Padma Bhushan, 17 Padma Bhushan and 110 Padma Shri.
Of the 59 seats, the BJP had won 51 in the 2017 Assembly elections, four had gone to the Samajwadi Party, and three to the Bahujan Samaj Party.
Several sitting MLAs are dropped by the BJP in the latest list.
The Rajasthan State Textbook Board and the owner of a publishing house have been booked for hurting religious sentiments over a reference to Islamist terrorism in a political science textbook, the police said on Thursday.
Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose had formed this government and taken oath as prime minister on October 21, 1943."
As many as 10 ministers in the Yogi Adityanath government failed to win their seats in the 2022 assembly elections, despite the BJP registering an impressive victory.
A Jaipur court has framed charges against 10 accused, including an Indian Police Service officer, involved in the alleged fake encounter case of Dara Singh.
The assembly election results on Tuesday sprang up several surprises in traditional party pocket-boroughs while little-known candidates registered windfalls in many others.
Section 363 of the IPC relates to punishment for kidnapping while Section 366 is concerned with kidnapping, abducting or inducing a woman to compel her marriage, etc.
In its first list for the upcoming assembly polls in Madhya Pradesh, the ruling BJP has focused on seats it lost in 2018 and some of them even in 2013, and has reposed faith in 14 candidates, including three former ministers, who lost last time.
Shot putter Om Prakash and long distance runner Surendra Singh won a gold medal each as Indian athletes bagged two gold, three silver and four bronze medals in the Asian Grand Prix second leg in Kunshan (China), on Wednesday.
The policemen, holding the rank of Inspector, Sub-Inspector and Assistant Sub-Inspector, were arrested on Friday for their alleged involvement in the killing of Singh in Jaipur on October 23, 2006, police sources said.
Rajeev Ramesan missed the Olympic 'B' qualification mark in the 800 metres by just 0.06 seconds even though he won the race with a personal best timing of 1:47.06 seconds at the Nike Grand Prix in Solihull, England.
The party fielded Maneka Gandhi from Sultanpur, while Uttar Pradesh minister Jitin Prasada has replaced Varun Gandhi in Pilibhit.
The BJP and its allies won all assembly seats in Modi's Varanasi and Adityanath's Gorakhpur, and the SP bagged all 10 segments in Yadav's Azamgarh Lok Sabha constituency.
Khap panchayats in Uttar Pradesh on Saturday said they will oppose same gotra marriages before the Supreme Court, which had sought their views, following a plea to curb violence against couples at the behest of such caste councils. At a meeting of over 200 khap leaders, the self-styled caste councils were unanimous in their opposition to same gotra marriages. They, however, stressed that they have never supported honour killings.
List of the athletes who will represent India at the 29th Olympic Games.
Ace marksman Gagan Narang added the 50m rifle prone position gold to the one he won earlier in the 10m event, while Olympic quota earner Annu Raj Singh grabbed the air pistol crown in the Kumar Surendra Singh Memorial Shooting Championships.
The TMC chief had said that she would never allow the Centre to conduct a similar exercise in West Bengal.
Punjab colt Akshay Jain grabbed a golden pistol double, upstaging former Commonwealth Games champion Samaresh Jung in the process, in the Kumar Surendra Singh Memorial Shooting Championships at the Balewadi ranges.
A notice has been issued to BJP MP Ramshanker Katheria on Sunday evening for flagging off the Shatabdi from Tundla railway station and the Election Commission has also been informed, District Magistrate Surendra Singh said.
The Bharatiya Janata Party on Saturday appointed election in-charges and co-in-charges for 23 states and Union territories in view of the Lok Sabha polls this year.
Ace marksman Gagan Narang bagged gold in the 10m air rifle while reigning Olympic champion Abhinav Bindra finished eighth after skipping the final for which he had qualified at the 11th Kumar Surendra Singh Memorial Shooting Championship in the Balewadi Ranges.
After being deprived of a gold medal by Border Security Force's Amit Kumar Pilaniya in the 10m air pistol event three days ago, Samaresh Jung was bang on target today as he won the 25m centre fire pistol title in the Kumar Surendra Singh Memorial Shooting Championships.
With many consumers using corporate networks to access intenet in the run up to Christmas and with many more hoping to complete their Christmas shopping online, cyber criminals were waiting to use these opportunities to attack, says Surendra Singh of Websense International Limited, leader in integrated web, data and email security.
Spread over 10 districts, polling in these constituencies will be held from 7 am till 6 pm on Thursday.
'We were sure our appeal would succeed. We knew we could break down the evidence and show it was hollow.'
Two investment firms, together accounting for 17.88 per cent of the paid-up share capital of Zee Entertainment Enterprise Ltd (ZEEL), have sought the removal of the current managing director Punit Goenka from the board of the company. The two investment firms are -- Invesco Developing Markets Fund (formerly Invesco Oppenheimer Developing Markets Fund) and OFI Global China Fund LLC, the largest shareholder of ZEEL. The two firms have called an extraordinary general meeting of shareholders seeking to remove Punit Goenka.
Congress leaders say there are enough reasons for moving the no-confidence motion against the Vasundhara Raje government.
A close associate of Indira Gandhi and Sanjay Gandhi during the Emergency when he was the defence minister, Lal is considered the architect of modern Haryana, particularly its progress in agriculture and industry.
Earlier this week, the Congress claimed that the BJP had "abducted" some MLAs of the ruling party as well as its allies BSP and the SP to bring down the Madhya Pradesh government.
Rio Olympics bound Chain Singh emerged as the star marksman of the 12th South Asian Games as he picked up his third individual gold of the competition by winning the men's 50m rifles 3 positions as India yet again reigned supreme at the range, in Guwahati, on Sunday.
The two were charged with rape and murder and sentenced to death by a lower court in the killings in Nithari, Noida, that horrified the nation with the details of sexual assault, brutal murder and hints of possible cannibalism.
'This is the filthy RSS male chauvinist mentality at work. Men do the raping but women need to be taught good values'
The sixth round of Uttar Pradesh assembly polls will see voting for 57 seats on Thursday sealing the fate of political heavyweights such as Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, the Congress' Ajay Kumar Lallu and Samajwadi Party's Swami Prasad Maurya.
BJP workers celebrated the chief minister's victory by bursting crackers and distributing sweets at the party headquarters in Dehradun and also at Dhumakot.
DSP Akhileshwar Prasad is killed in a police encounter with Maoist rebels.
A special investigation team (SIT) has been formed to unravel the mystery surrounding the alleged theft of 240 British-era gold coins by four policemen in Madhya Pradesh's Alirajpur district, an official said on Wednesday.
Gagan Narang had to settle for a silver medal in the men's 50m rifle prone event at the Asian Shooting Championships in Kuwait on Monday.
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