In gold-medal position for the first 4000m of the 10000m women’s race-walk, Priyanka lost the top spot to Australia’s Jemima Montag. But she had enough fuel in the tank to finish second for a historic silver medal with a personal best time of 43:38.83.
Read MoreIn an interview with PTI, Chidambaram also dismissed Home Minister Amit Shah’s remarks linking the Congress’ demonstration against price rise on Friday to the Ram temple foundation day, saying the anniversary of the ‘Shilanyas’ was “far from our mind” when the date for the protest was fixed.
Read MoreNine people were killed and two others injured after lightning struck them in Madhya Pradesh’s Vidisha, Satna and Guna districts in the last 24 hours, officials said.
Read MoreIn a bizarre reflection of bigotry in Madhya Pradesh’s hinterland, at least 15 women who were elected as panchs and sarpanchs in Dhar and Damoh districts sat in the audience or stayed home as their husbands – dubbed ‘Panch Patis’ – took oath on the Constitution, right under the noses of government officials.
Read MoreOn Saturday evening, Gehlot got emotional post winning a bronze medal for the country and said to ANI, “I apologise to my compatriots. I wished that the National Anthem be played here (in Birmingham)… But I will learn from my mistakes, and work on them.”
Read MoreRecently, a journalist joked to leading Shia scholar and preacher Maulana Syed Aqeel-ul-Gharavi that there is no place on earth where Islam reached and he (Gharavi) has not gone, too. Jokes apart, Muharram majlises or assemblies across the world scramble to get him for the initial days of Muharram to deliver the sermons. “There...
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