Gold Coast Heena Sidhu, who earlier bagged silver medal in the women’s 10m Air Pistol event at CWG 2018 earlier, got her act straight and won the gold in 25m pistol event. This was the third gold medal from the Indian shooting contingent as Manu Bhaker, Jitu Rai and Sidhu have stood atop of the podium. […]
Washington Facebook is displaying advertisements for well-known American corporations on group pages operated by overseas wildlife traffickers illegally selling the body parts of threatened animals, including elephant ivory, rhino horn and tiger teeth. In a secret complaint filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, wildlife preservation advocates allege that Facebook’s failure to stop illicit traders using […]
Gold Coast India clinched gold in mixed-team badminton in the Commonwealth Games at the Gold Coast on Monday. Even though India took lead against Malaysia in the mixed doubles and singles categories, young guns Satwik Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty failed to keep the momentum going, losing to V Shem Goh-Wee Kiong Tan in the doubles […]
New Delhi Indian men’s table tennis team scripted history as they defeated Nigeria 3-0 in the final to clinch the coveted gold in 21st Commonwealth Games being held at Gold Coast. With another gold, India’s gold medal tally has been raised to nine. This is for the first time, India men’s and women’s team have […]
New Delhi: Taxi operator Meru Cabs plans to focus more on corporate clients in order to shore up its revenue as the B2C segment is already hogged by two heavily-funded players – Ola and Uber. According to a report in the Economic Times, Meru Cab is looking to double down on its B2B offering, which […]
Airtel has introduced a new Fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) 300Mbps Home broadband plan to users in select cities in the country. The plan costs Rs. 2190, offers 1200GB of high-speed data and is priced the same in Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad and Kolkata. Airtel guarantees an uptime of 99 per cent with its broadband plans, unlimited […]
Tokyo: A 5.6-magnitude quake hit western Japan early Monday, injuring five people and damaging buildings and roads, as officials warned stronger tremors could come in the days ahead. The shallow tremor was gauged as magnitude 5.6 by the US Geological Survey and 6.1 by Japan’s meteorological agency on the Richter scale. It rocked the west […]
Washington The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is all set to launch its humanity’s first mission to the Sun, Parker Solar Probe, in July. The US space agency has begun the final preparations for the launch of Parker Solar Probe. It will be launched from Launch Complex-37 at NASA’s Kennedy Space Centre, Florida. The […]
Gold Coast: Indian shooting ace Jitu Rai claimed the gold medal in men’s 10m air pistol event by creating a new games record while compatriot Om Prakash Mitharval bagged a bronze at the 21st Commonwealth Games here today. World Championship silver medallist Rai shot 235.1 to comfortably finish top of the podium.Mitharval, who had established […]
Madhya Pradesh In the last few days, there have been several posts on social media and WhatsApp groups about another Bharat Bandh on April 10. The call for Bharat Bandh has been reportedly given by some groups and organisations opposing caste-based reservations in jobs and education. On April 2, several Dalit groups had enforced a […]