Olympic silver medalist P.V. Sindhu made history by defeating Nozomi Okuhara in the final of BWF Badminton World Championship-2019 in Switzerland on Sunday. Sindhu won the gold medal in the final of Badminton World Championship 2019. Sindhu became the first Indian player to win a gold medal at the World Championship.Before Sindhu no Indian player male or female had won ...

HMD Global has released its Nokia phones portfolio shortly after the announcement of Android 10, the official name of Google’s Android Q. Those Nokia phones which will get the next major Android operating system update have been revealed. HMD Chief Juho Sarvikas has tweeted that the roll-out of Android 10 in Nokia smartphones will begin in 2019 Q4. Nokia 7.1, ...

Senior leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (Bhartiya Janta Party) and former Finance Minister Arun Jaitley (66) died on Saturday. He was admitted for treatment in All India Institute of Medical Sciences based in Delhi for a long time. Former Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley was admitted to the ICU of AIIMS from 9 August, where his condition was said ...

To supplement the efforts of Jal Shakti Ministry, NITI Aayog has prepared the second Round of Composite Water Management Index (CWMI 2.0).The Report was launched today by Shri Gajendra Singh Shekhawat, Minister of Jal Shakti, and Dr. Rajiv Kumar, Vice Chairman, NITI Aayog. Ramesh Chand, Member, NITI Aayog, Amitabh Kant, CEO, NITI Aayog, Parameswaran Iyer, Secretary, Jal Shakti Ministry; U.P. ...

The Department of Consumers Affairs today reviewed the prices of Essential Commodities such as Onions, Pulses and Oilseeds with all the stakeholders under the chairmanship of Secretary Consumer Affairs, Avinash K Srivastava. The committeedecided to substantially increase the daily supply of onions from government buffer to Delhi and directed NAFED to release the stock from PSF buffer so as to ...

The President of India, Ram Nath Kovind, inaugurated the first World Youth Conference on Kindness in New Delhi today (August 23, 2019). Addressing the gathering, the President said that Mahatma Gandhi was not just a great leader and visionary, he was one who personified certain timeless ideals and values. We could place Gandhiji in a time machine and transport him ...

Cristiano Ronaldo admitted on Wednesday his long-time rivalry with Lionel Messi has made him “a better player” and that he enjoys a “healthy” rivalry with the Argentine great. However, Portuguese star Ronaldo, whose influence at Real Madrid mirrored that of Messi at Barcelona before he left for Juventus, admitted that the pair have never socialised together. “I really admire the ...

The water level of Yamuna is receding and the river is flowing at 204.55 metres, below the danger mark, an official said on Thursday. The river had breached the danger mark of 205.33 metres on Monday. “The level of Yamuna at railway bridge was 204.55 metres at 9 pm. It is expected to recede further,” the official at the flood ...

The two-day 11th National Taekwondo Competition will be held at Maharana Pratap Sports Stadium in Dehradun. In the competition to be held on August 24 and 25, 450 contestants from 20 states of the country and 32 sports experts with technical knowledge of the operation of the game will also participate. The Uttarakhand Sports Taekwondo Association organized a press conference ...

The first picture of Moon captured by India’s Chandrayaan-2 satellite, currently in the lunar orbit, was released by space agency ISRO on Thursday. The picture of Moon was taken by Chandrayaan-2’s LI4 Camera from an altitude of about 2,650 km from the lunar surface on August 21, the city-headquarters Indian Space Research Organisation said. “Take a look at the first ...