India finishes second in ISSF World Cup Baku

May 15, 2023

Manini Kaushik reached her first senior World Cup stage career final, finishing sixth in the women's 50m rifle 3 positions (3P) event as India ended their engagements at the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) World Cup Rifle/Pistol in Baku. Manini shot 415.6 in the final, which was won by Briton...

Hockey Haryana wins Sub Junior National Championship

May 15, 2023

The 13th Hockey India Sub Junior Women National Championship 2023 concluded with the defending champions, Hockey Haryana, emerging as winners, while Hockey Jharkhand finished second. According to an official release, the Hockey Association of Odisha secured third place in the tournament after defeating Uttar Pradesh Hockey at the Birsa Munda...

PM Modi congratulates Congress on Karnataka win

May 13, 2023

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday congratulated the Congress for its win in the Karnataka assembly polls and wished the party best in its endeavour to fulfilling people's aspirations. "I thank all those who have supported us in the Karnataka elections. I appreciate the hardwork of BJP Karyakartas. We shall...

Indian Para shuttlers Pramod, Sukant enter semi-finals of Para-Badminton International 2023

May 13, 2023

Indian star shuttlers Pramod Bhagat and Sukant Kadam clinched their places in the semi-finals of the Thailand Para-Badminton International 2023. Pramod Bhagat won all the league games and also defeated Ukraine's Oleksandr Chyrkov in straight sets. He will now face Japan's Daisuke Fujihara. The Padma Shri Awardee won his quarterfinals...

Strength of poor defeated power of crony capitalists: Rahul Gandhi

May 13, 2023

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday hailed the party's victory in the Karnataka assembly polls and said that the people of the state defeated the politics of hate. The Congress crossed the halfway mark in the trends and is well set to form the government in the state. Addressing reporters...

AAP wins Jalandhar bypolls, breaks Congress 24-year stronghold

May 13, 2023

The Aam Aadmi Party candidate on Saturday won the bypoll from the Jalandhar Lok Sabha constituency, which was considered a Congress stronghold for the past 24 years. AAP candidate Sushil Kumar Rinku, a former Congress MLA, defeated his closest rival, Congress's Karamjit Kaur, by a margin of over 58,000 votes,...

Siddaramaiah wins from Varuna, becomes MLA for 9th time

May 13, 2023

Senior Congress leader and former chief minister Siddaramaiah got a landslide victory in the Varuna constituency on Saturday, defeating his nearest rival by a margin of 46,006 votes and entering the Karnataka Assembly for the ninth time. The 75-year-old leader got 1,19,430 votes against 73,424 polled by his BJP rival...

Congress at 136 as it leads in 57 seats, BJP wins 39 in Karnataka elections

May 13, 2023

As the counting of votes is underway on Saturday for the Karnataka Assembly elections, Congress has won 79 seats while leading in 57 constituencies, according to the Election Commission (EC) data. Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has won 39 seats and leading in 25 so far. Janata Dal (Secular) has won...

CM will be chosen through consensus: Mallikarjun Kharge

May 13, 2023

Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge said on Saturday that the party's victory in Karnataka is an outcome of the "collective work" of party leaders and workers and that the party would work towards consensus to choose its chief ministerial candidate. Talking to reporters as the trends showed an emphatic Congress victory,...

‘Modi is not invincible’: Upbeat Opposition targets PM after Karnataka results

May 13, 2023

On Saturday, opposition leaders praised the Congress for winning in Karnataka and complimented the state's residents, claiming that this victory has demonstrated that "Modi is not invincible." TMC MP Mahua Moitra tweeted, "Thank you, Karnataka. For choosing LPG over Bajrangbaliji." CPI (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation general secretary Dipankar Bhattacharya also thanked the...