The courage of Captain Haneef, Vir Chakra, martyr at 25

'Captain Haneef-ud-din, pulling his sinewy body forward, crawled, rifle in hand, in the snow on 6 June 1999. He died on this craggy mountainside exactly two years after he had passed out of the......

Chandigarh teacher catches student cheating, killed

Angered over their friend being caught while cheating in examination, two youths ran their car over a teacher in Haryana's Sonepat district, the police said. The youths identified as Vikram and......

JK court restrains deportation of Pakistani man

The Jammu and Kashmir high court has restrained the authorities from deporting an aged Pakistani national, who came to his native Pekhri village in Samba district recently on a cross Line of......

Naxal attack: 42 of 76 CRPF jawans hailed from UP

Of the 76 Central Reserve Police Force personnel who died in the Naxal attack in the Mukrana forests in Chhattisgarh on Tuesday, 42 of them hailed from Uttar Pradesh. Bodies of 25 jawans hailing......

Sports Shorts: Rankireddy-Shetty enter semis of Thailand Open

Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Friday IMAGE: Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty. Photograph: Kind courtesy, Olympic Press/Twitter India's Satwiksairaj......

Hockey India cuts senior women's probables' list to 33

Hockey Indiapruned down the list of core group probables of the senior women's team to 33after a two-day selection trial at the Aish Bagh stadium in Bhopal. Hockey India selectors B P Govinda,......

India at the Asian Games: Day 4

Ashish Kumar creates history in gymnastics Gymnast Ashish Kumar on Tuesday opened a new chapter for India in the little followed sport by clinching the country's first ever medal, a bronze, in the......

India Veterans win by 12 runs

A fine spell by medium pacer Vivek Razdan (3 for 23) led India Veterans to a 12-run victory over Pakistan Veterans in the first limited-overs match of the NTPC Indo-Pak Goodwill seriesin......