A 23-year-old man was on Thursday charged with the murder of Indian student Tejaswini Kontham and the attempted murder of her friend at a residential address in Wembley, north London.
Divya Deshmukh of India outclassed Bulgaria's Beloslava Krasteva to clinch the title in the World Junior Girls' chess championship
International Master Divya Deshmukh maintained a slender half-point lead after defeating Norman Kseniya of Russia in the eighth round of the World Junior Girls' chess championship in Gandhinagar on Monday.
The event that was inaugurated by five-time world champion Viswanathan Anand will have 11 rounds before the best player in the under-20 category can be determined in both sections.
Stars get in a festive mood on social media, as they celebrate Makar Sankranti, Pongal and Lohri.
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With the reality of coalition politics staring the BJP in its face, this was inevitable, points out Ramesh Menon.
Rajkumar Santoshi hosted two screenings of his film Gandhi Godse - Ek Yudh over the weekend.
Director Anurag Kashyap organised a special screening of his film Dobaaraa in Mumbai.
Celebrating 10 years of her label on Day Four of the LFW, here's what Payal Singhal offered up on the ramp.
Pradeep Bandekar ran into Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Shraddha Kapoor, Rashmika Mandanna on Tuesday.
India's shooters started off in fine fashion on Thursday, with Vijay Kumar and Gurpreet Singh winning a gold medal in the Pairs 25 metres Rapid Fire pistol event at the Dr Karni Singh Shooting Range. The duo created a new Games record, with a final total of 1162, as each shot 293 in the second stage. However, there was a bit of disappointment for India, as crowd favourite Tejaswini Sawant and Lajjakumar Gauswami failed to win a medal in the women's 50m Rifle-3 Position.
Urmila Matondkar returns to the movies, and we can't keep calm!
The Karnataka BJP core committee had proposed only Tejaswini's name for the Lok Sabha seat, but Tejaswi Surya emerged the dark horse.
On Friday, the Indian shooting contingent for Tokyo 2020 reached Amsterdam from their Zagreb base in Croatia. Saurabh Choudhary, Abhishek Verma, Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar, and Anjum Moudgil headline India's shooting squad.
The Indian pair of Rhythm Sangwan and Vijayveer Sidhu clinched the 25m Rapid Fire Pistol Mixed Team gold medal as the country's total haul soared to 23.
The four medals swelled India's tally to 20 medals including nine gold, three silver and eight bronze medals, in second place behind China, who have 18 gold for a grand total of 37 medals.
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Tejaswini shot 102.1, 102.4, 103.3, 102.8, 103.7, 104.6 for a cumulative score of 618.9 over six series to claim her sixth CWG medal.
Even those with no knowledge of the inner workings of the media and police, would find Scoop absorbing as a human drama and the story of the resilience of a woman, her family and true friends, applauds Deepa Gahlot.
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Soon after Varun Dhawan's low-key wedding in Alibaug, Bollywood yet another star kid wedding. This time, in Mumbai.
India has also picked up one Paris 2024 Olympics quota place after Rudrankksh Balasaheb Patil stunned a high-quality field on Friday, to become the 10 air rifle men's world champion.
A look at India's schedule at the Tokyo Olympics on Saturday, July 31, 2021.
Film folk put on their masks and said goodbye to Lord Ganesha as some Ganpati celebrations came to an end over the weekend.
Rediff reader Tejaswini tells us how her son Ojas kept himself engaged during the lockdown.
Youngster Rudrankksh Patil has emerged as a hot contender to emulate 2008 Beijing Olympics champion Abhinav Bindra's feat at the 2024 Paris Games.
It's her maasi's birthday! Happy birthday, Padmini Kolhapure!
He may be only 28, but the now-chosen candidate for Bengaluru South has handled the party's IT cell and campaigned for several party candidates during the state polls last year.
A summary of the country's athletes' showing at the Games on Saturday, July 31.
World No 1 Elavenil Valarivan was on Sunday included in a 15-member Indian shooting contingent for the Tokyo Olympics at the expense of quota winner Chinki Yadav, who had claimed a gold in the Delhi World Cup last month.
Compatriot Tejaswini Sawant outdid her for the second event running by finishing seventh in the women's 50-m Rifle 3 Positions.
Bollywood mourned designer Vikram Phadnis's mother's passing.
Ace shooter Jitu Rai failed to make it to the final of the men's 10m Air Pistol at the International Shooting Sport Federation World Cup (Rifle/Pistol), in Munich, on Monday.
Chants of "Amar rahe, amar rahe, Ananth Kumar amar rahe" and "Bharat mata ki jai" rent the air as leaders paid homage and the mortal remains were consigned to flames.
The national championship silver and junior world championship bronze-medallist, however, could not replicate her qualification form in the final, only managing a sixth-place finish with a score of 116.
'What heartens me is that Tejaswani's road to medals continues to be one where family and friends remain the lynch-pin of the journey,' says Roopa Unnikrishnan whose 12-year-old Indian shooting record was broken by Tejaswini Sawant last fortnight.
