Silver medallist Kishore Kumar Jena of India, gold medalist Neeraj Chopra of India and bronze medalist Roderick Genki Dean of Japan (Photo by Lintao Zhang/Getty Images) NEW DELHI: The qualifying mark for the men’s javelin throw at the World Athletics Championships is the same as the Olympics: 85.50 metres. At the halfway stage of the … Read more
Chandra Holt (L) is now at the center of a corporate scandal involving her former Walmart colleague, and reported former romantic partner, Ashley Buchanan(R). Chandra Holt, once considered one of the most promising executives in American retail, is now at the center of a corporate scandal involving her former Walmart colleague, and reported former romantic … Read more
A fan is carted off the field at PNC Park after falling out of the stands during the seventh inning of a baseball game between the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Chicago Cubs in Pittsburgh. (AP) A night meant for baseball glory turned tragic when Kavan Markwood, a 20-year-old former college football player, fell 21 feet … Read more
The White House has jumped into a viral internet trend, the bizarre “100 men vs one gorilla” meme using it to highlight US President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement record.In a post shared Thursday on X, the official White House account posted a meme featuring an image of several immigrants boarding a plane alongside a photo … Read more
NEW DELHI: Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and President Asif Ali Zardari have pledged a “befitting response” to any act of aggression amid rising tensions with India in the aftermath of Pahalgama attack that killed 26. In a meeting held on Thursday, first time since the attack, the leaders said, “Pakistani nation is united and … Read more
NEW DELHI: Congress Thursday said PM Narendra Modi had last year dubbed Rahul Gandhi‘s demand for a caste census an “urban naxal mindset”, poking fun at BJP functionaries for taking credit for the govt decision to count caste in the much-awaited decennial census. It said the central govt has not clarified the timeline for the … Read more
NEW DELHI: Delhi high court on Thursday found Yoga guru Ramdev “prima facie in contempt”, saying he “is not in control of anyone” as it took a dim view of his defiance of an earlier undertaking and ordered him to remove within 24 hours a fresh offensive social media video targeting Rooh Afza makers Hamdard.“He … Read more
NEW DELHI: Hurling ‘impotent’ and ‘infertile’ slurs at the husband in public by his estranged wife and her near relatives could be hurtful, but these cannot be construed to be an abetment for the man to die by suicide a month later, Supreme Court has said.An engineer married an MBA woman in Sept 2013. Barely … Read more
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court has said that in the Indian legislative system, where most bills are introduced by govt and very few private members’ bills are presented and debated in Parliament, it becomes the apex court’s duty to direct performance audit and assessment of impact of legislations.While upholding constitutional validity of provisions of the … Read more
BHUBANESWAR: A Nepalese student’s body was found hanging in her hostel room at a private university in Bhubaneswar on Thursday.Ruling out any foul play, police confirmed it as a case of suicide, noting this incident occurred about two and a half months after another Nepalese computer science third-year student’s reported suicide at the same institution … Read more