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New Delhi: India women's quartert wrote a new script winning a gold in Lawn Bowls while men's table tennis team defended their title as the country picked up two golds and a silver on the fifth day of the Birmingham Commonwealth Games (CWG) on Tuesday.

Mamallapuram (Tamil Nadu): Young Grandmaster D Gukesh caused a big upset by defeating former World Championship challenger Alexi Shirov as India B shocked Spain 2.5-1.5 in the 5th Round of the 44th Chess Olympiad here on Tuesday.

New Delhi: India will aim for full points as they take "tricky" Canada to book their place in the Semifinals of the Men's Hockey tournament at the Birmingham Commonwealth Games on Wednesday.

New Delhi: India suffered their first defeat in three outings as they went down to England 3-1 in the Women's hockey tournament at the Birmingham Commonwealth Games on Tuesday.

Actors Aamir Khan and Kareena Kapoor Khan are getting "brutally trolled", along with Laal Singh Chadda. On Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. And people are loving the word ‘brutally’. Especially sub-editors, and headliners. Aamir and Kareena can only “block” the trolls. But that is fraught with risk. The next thing will be the screenshot of “Aamir Khan Blocked You” going viral.

The incidence where Health Minister of Punjab rebuked the Vice Chancellor of Baba Farid University of Health Sciences and asked him to lie down on the bed with torn mattress has brought shame to the nation. Dr. Raj Bahadur Gaur, the Vice Chancellor is an upright person against whom not a single finger has been pointed for any misdeed. He has always been working in the interest of the students and has tried his best to streamline the examination system. A Surgeon Par excellence who despite busy schedule as administrator attended to the patients and has been performing spine surgery, which is his expertise.

The startling recovery of more than fifty crore rupees in cash and gold from two flats belonging to an actress and reportedly a close aide to the now dropped TMC minister Partha Chatterjee has once again put the Mamata Banerjee government of West Bengal in the dock. The recovery of the cash and the arrest of the minister have happened in the wake of the Calcutta High Court judgement ordering a CBI probe into the massive irregularities and brazen manipulation in the School Service Commission recruitment process in West Bengal. And behind this court verdict lies the protracted struggle of the deprived and betrayed applicants. While the dominant media coverage of the issue now revolves around the arrested minister and his associates, we must focus first of all on securing justice for the deprived would-be teachers who have been the direct victims of this scam.

How should the newly elected President Droupadi Murmu be addressed? When congress leader Adhir Chowdhury referred to her as 'Rashtrapatni' and claimed it was a slip of his tongue later, still minister SmritiIrani held the word as derogatory. Even when the first woman president, Pratibha Patil (2007-2012), took over, Shiv Sena supremo late Bal Thackeray called her 'Rashtrapatni', but Patil laughed it off. In the end, Patil was addressed as Rashtrapati.

New Delhi: On a day of dramatic twist for India on the field, Judoka Shushila Devi Likmabam clinched a silver, weightlifter Harjinder Kaur was "lucky" to bag a bronze, Women's Four Lawn Bowls team assured themselves a first ever medal in this discipline in the Games even as Men's Hockey team squandered a 4-1 lad to play 4-4 draw with England while all the four boxers on the fray made it to the next round with easy victories on day 4 of the Commonwealth Games at Birmingham.

New Delhi: India squandered 4-1 lead as England staged a stunning comeback to make it 4-4 and share points in the Pool B of Men's Hockey tournament in Commonwealth Games in Birmingham on Monday.