Delhi air quality plummets to alarming levels despite curbs

Delhi's air quality plummeted to alarming levels on Tuesday after 24 days, with many areas witnessing a significant spike in pollution despite the strictest measures, including a ban on......

All-women marching, band contingents may participate in next R-Day Parade

Next year's Republic Day Parade in New Delhi could see all-women marching and band contingents with authorities working on such a proposal for the ceremonial event to be held at Kartavya Path,......

'His powerful and classy voice will be missed'

Photograph: Kind courtesy Ameen Sayani/X Legendary radio personality Ameen Sayani passed into the ages on Tuesday, leaving the entertainment industry in a state of mourning. Quite a few tributes......

Why Bharat Ratna still eludes Major Dhyan Chand?

'If the country's biggest sports award is named after him, the National Stadium is named after him, then why not he is given a Bharat Ratna.' IMAGE: Union Sports Minister Mansukh Mandaviya pays......

Remembering Major Dhyan Chand on National Sports Day

PM Modi, Sports Minister Mandaviya lead tributes to Olympian Dhyan Chand on Thursday, August 29, his birth anniversary. IMAGE: Sports Minister Mansukh Mandaviya pays tribute to Major Dhyan Chand......

Bharat Ratna for Dhyan Chand?

Vijay Goel writes to PMO, wants Bharat Ratna for hockey legend Dhyan Chand IMAGE: Sand artist Sudarshan Patnaik's creation. Photograph: Twitter The Sports Ministry has written to the Prime......

Khel Ratna Award renamed after Dhyan Chand

IMAGE: PM Modi pays his respects to hockey legend Major Dhyan Chand. Photograph: Narendra Modi/Twitter India's highest sporting honour, the Khel Ratna Award, which was named after former prime......

'Remembering Dhyan Chand, the magician'

Indian hockey wizard Major Dhyan Chand loved fishing and cooked for his wards when he was a coach, former Olympian Gurbux Singh said on the eve of the master's 105th birth anniversary, to be......