New Delhi: Newly-crowned weightlifting world champion Saikhom Mirabai Chanu says she thought of quitting the sport after receiving flak for her failure to win a medal at the Rio Olympics.

“I was really low after the Olympics. It took me a lot of time to get over the disappointment. I even thought of giving u

Paris:French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday warned regional powers against meddling in Lebanon at an international meeting aimed at fending off pressure on the fragile country from rivals Iran and Saudi Arabia.

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson attended the talks in Paris with Lebanese Prime Minister Saad H

Guwahati: Two persons have been arrested here for their involvement in circulating an SMS, offering to kill Assam Health and Education Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma using a bomb, police said on Friday.

Both the arrested persons were employees of Guwahati Medical College and Hospital, police said.

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Los Angeles: The Warner Bros film executive in charge of production on the studios DC superhero films is stepping down after the under-performance of “Justice League”.

Jon Berg, co-president of production at Warner Bros Pictures, will leave his post at the studio to become a producer with filmmaker Roy

Nigeria called for an end to violence in neighbouring Cameroon, where a crisis sparked by a separatist drive in English-speaking areas has forced thousands of people to seek sanctuary across the border.

“The Nigerian state by no means supports the secessionists,” Nigerian ambassador Lawan Abba Gashagar said Thursday, after

Kadapa: Vice-President Venkaiah Naidu today said that the Kadapa steel factory, whose plans have been dormant since the state’s bifurcation in 2014, may materialise soon.

He told a gathering at the centenary function of the Annie Besant School here that a high level committee is looking into the issue and it

Bhubaneshwar: Olympic 2016 champions Argentina rode on a penalty corner strike by Gonzalo Peillat to defeat India 1-0 in the semi-finals of the Hockey World League Final here on Friday.

Peillat struck a fiery blow to the right corner of the post in the 17th minute to help Argentina enter the final for the first ti

New Delhi: A day after a relatively clear sky in Delhi, the city’s air quality today again dipped with the AQI slipping to the ‘poor’ zone.

Breeze had cleared up the hazy sky yesterday bringing relief to people in the national capital, with the AQI recorded in the ‘moderate zone’ (194

Bengaluru: Kannada television actor Deekshith Shetty was attacked by three men after he declined to pose for a picture with them.

The actor, who plays the lead role in a Kannada serial ‘Nagini’, had come to Maruthi Mandir in his car. While he was getting into his vehicle to return home around 9.30 pm,

Bhubaneshwar: Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik today expressed displeasure over the state not being given adequate central force for deployment in left wing extremism (LWE)-hit areas.

Patnaik, who was replying to a debate on the voting of supplementary demands for grants of the home and general administration