Five people died in a freak accident near Madakasira village of the district when a truck carrying a granite boulder rammed into the Nanded bound Bangalore-Nanded express train at around 2:30 AM today. While five including the truck’s cleaner, who is yet to be identified, have been pronounced dead by doctors at the Hindupur government general hospital, more than 30, […]
» Read moreBeijing: Usain Bolt beat his controversial rival Justin Gatlin by just one-hundredth of a second on Sunday as he retained his world 100m title in a race billed as a battle between clean sports and doping. Bolt, also the double Olympic gold medallist and world record holder, ran his season’s best of 9.79 seconds in a thrilling race against Gatlin, […]
» Read moreCincinnati: The Indo-Swiss tennis combine of Sania Mirza and Martina Hingis lost their women’s doubles semifinal, to crash out of the $2,701,240 Cincinnati Masters, following a three-set defeat. The top seeds were upset 4-6, 6-0, 6-10 by the unseeded Chinese Taipei’s sister pair of Hao-Ching Chan and Yung-Jan Chan in an hour and 14 minutes on the outdoor hard courts […]
» Read moreGuwahti: Ahead of assembly elections in Assam next year, the BJP managed to poach a prominent Congress leader Himanta Biswa Sarma. Sarma, who will be joining the BJP, is a former health and education minister in the state. The party working on the deal for a while now. Sarma, a dissident for some time now has been bargaining with both […]
» Read moreActress Yami Gautam missed the audio launch of her upcoming Telugu filmCourier Boy Kalyan due to prior commitments. The 26-year-old Vicky Donor star took to Twitter and wished luck to co-actor Nitin and director Premsai for the romantic-action film. “All the best to @directorpremsai @actor_nithiin @anuprubens #karthik for the audio launch of ‘Courier Boy Kalyan’ today on TV5 & Gemini […]
» Read moreA moderate earthquake of magnitude 5.0 has struck 15 kilometres south-east of Kodari in Nepal. Nepal was hit by a massive 7.9 magnitude earthquake on April 25 which resulted in widespread devastation and killed over 8,000 people. Whole villages were destroyed in the quake while large parts of Kathmandu were destroyed, leaving nearly 18,000 people injured and tens of thousands […]
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