Visakhapatnam: World Badminton Champion and Ace Shuttler PV Sindhu on Saturday inaugurated the renovated Railway indoor-sports enclave here in Vizag city. In order to promote Railway Indoor Sports complex, East Coast Railway Sports Association, Waltair Division has opened a Railway Indoor Sports Enclave popularly known as RISE in the year 2016. The sports complex has…

Strikes killed more than 30 civilians in a mountainous northern Yemeni province Saturday, the UN humanitarian chief for the country said, calling the attack “shocking.” The Yemeni rebels, known as Houthis, accused the Saudi-led coalition of launching retaliatory airstrikes, after they shot down a warplane for coalition over the province of Jawf. Saudi Arabia’s state-run…

Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa on Saturday said he was feeling at home in India and especially in Goa due to the latter’s unique ‘human micro-climate’. He was addressing a select gathering here as a part of a seminar on urban designs organised by the state-run Imagine Panaji Smart City Development Limited. “I feel…

Delhi’s Ramlila Maidan is all decked up as Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief Arvind Kejriwal is set to take oath as Delhi’s chief minister — for a third consecutive term — at 10 am on Sunday. All the six ministers — Manish Sisodia, Satendra Jain, Gopal Rai, Kailash Gehlot, Imran Hussain, Rajendra Pal Gautam —…

Two children, aged five and seven years, died after a local witch doctor performed exorcism on them for nearly three hours. The children had fallen ill while playing in a mango orchard at Malda in north Bengal on Friday. Their parents called a local witch doctor, after villagers alleged that the children might have been…

The IPL 2020 schedule has been released. It is time for cities to unite, Indian cricket fans to divide, and every cricket lover to enjoy the 13th season. The event will start on 29th March (Sunday) and end on 24th May (Sunday). The two teams who played the finals of IPL 2019 will be inaugurating…

NEW DELHI: AAP national convenor Arvind Kejriwal took oath as Delhi’s Chief Minister for third successive time on Sunday amidst thousands who had turned up here at Ramlila Maidan with tricolours, party flags, posters and placards to extend support to their representative. Around 50 people from different walks of life who are responsible for ‘Delhi…

The first case of coronavirus has been reported in Pakistan’s Abbottabad where terrorist Osama-bin-Laden was killed. The person who is suspected of being infected with coronavirus recently returned from China. The person who belongs from Gilgit-Baltistan in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) has been put under observation at the Ayub Medical Hospital (AMH) in Abottabad. The death…

As the protests against contentious Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) are not going to die anytime soon, thousands of protesters, including a large number of women, on Saturday came together to protest against CAA, the National Register of Citizens (NRC) and the National Population Register (NPR) at Mumbai’s iconic Azad Maidan amid recitation of Urdu poet…

Four children were burnt alive when a minivan of a private school carrying students caught fire in Punjab’s Sangrur district on Saturday, police said. The accident took place on the Longowal-Sidsamachar road, they said, adding 12 children were in the van at that time. Eight children were taken out safely by people working in nearby…

Dhaka: Many Christians have been beaten into their homes in refugee camps in Bangladesh. Dozens of attackers have also looted and vandalized homes. International human rights organization Human Rights Watch has given information in this regard in a report. The incident is of a refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, where most Rohingya Muslims live. A…

MADURAI: Seeking action against the officials responsible for the police lathicharge on anti-CAA protesters at Washermenpet in Chennai on Friday night, hundreds of men, women and children, hailing from Muslim community launched an indefinite protest at various places in Madurai on Saturday. The protesters also demanded the State government to pass a resolution against the…

A 24-year-old Dalit man was brutally thrashed by a mob after he allegedly stopped to defecate in an open field in Villupuram town in South of Chennai, Tamil Nadu. The victim, identified as Sakthivel, worked in a petrol pump near Villupuram. On Wednesday, while on his way to work, he stopped at an open field…

A group of protesters at Shaheen Bagh are planning to march to Union home minister Amit Shah’s residence on Sunday to hold talks with him over the recently amended citizenship law. This comes after Shah reportedly said he would give time to those willing to discuss the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, or CAA, including Shaheen Bagh…

BJP president JP Nadda on Saturday summoned Union minister and senior party leader Giriraj Singh and is learnt to have cautioned him over his controversial remarks alleging that Deoband, the seat of an influential Islamic seminary, is the fountainhead of terrorism. Singh, known for his aggressive championing of Hindutva politics, was summoned to the BJP…