Rio de Janeiro, August 20 Usain Bolt drew down the curtain on his brilliant Olympic career by securing a sweep of the sprint titles for a third successive Games when Jamaica successfully defended the 4×100 metres relay crown on Friday. Two days before his 30th birthday, Bolt ran the anchorRead More

Rio de Janeiro, August 20 Downplaying ace Indian shuttler PV Sindhu’s final defeat at the hands of world number one Carolina Marin at the ongoing Rio Olympics, badminton chief coach Pullela Gopichand has said he is really proud of the way she played throughout the match and brought a historicRead More

Washington, August 20 Targeting the controversial Republican presidential nominee over the resignation of chairman of Trump campaign Paul Manafort, rival Clinton Campaign has claimed that the move was a “clear admission of the connection” between Donald Trump and the “pro-Kremlin elements” in Russia and Ukraine. “Manafort’s resignation is a clearRead More

United Nations, August 20 UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has said in a message on World Humanitarian Day that a record 130 million people depend on assistance to survive, a staggering number that would comprise the tenth most populous nation on earth. At an event in the UN General Assembly onRead More

Hasakeh (Syria), August 20 Syrian government warplanes took to the skies again on Saturday over the flashpoint northeastern city of Hasakeh, despite a US warning against new strikes that might endanger its military advisers. In another escalation of the five-year war, regime planes this week bombarded positions held by US-backedRead More

California, August 20 Evacuation orders have been lifted for tens of thousands of people in southern California as firefighters gain ground on the wildfire that is still keeping 7,000 others from their homes, officials said on Saturday. Nearly 3,200 homes and other buildings were still at threat from the BlueRead More

Seoul, August 20 North Korea said on Saturday that a senior North Korean diplomat who recently defected to South Korea is a criminal and “human scum,” in its first official response to the defection. The official Korean Central News Agency also accused Seoul of using the defection of Thae YongRead More

Kabul, August 20 The Taliban seized a district on Saturday in the northeastern Kunduz province, where the insurgents briefly overran the provincial capital last year before being driven out by a counteroffensive, an official said. Mohammadullah Bahej, spokesman for the provincial police chief, said the insurgents launched attacks from differentRead More

New Delhi: 52-year-old Urjit Patel, the RBI’s deputy governor in charge of monetary policy has been appointed as the new governor after current governor Raghuram Rajan’s term ends on September 4 2016. Urjit acquired his BA from the London School of Economics and M. Phil from Oxford University in 1986.Read More

New Delhi: The nation on Saturday remembered former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi on his 72nd birth anniversary with President Pranab Mukherjee and other leaders paying tributes to him at his memorial even as Congress President Sonia Gandhi kept away due to health reasons. While Sonia’s son and party Vice PresidentRead More