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Rio 2016 | 4x400m Relay: Poor performance by India as women finish 7th and men disqualified in Heats
Aug20

Rio 2016 | 4x400m Relay: Poor performance by India as women finish 7th and men disqualified in Heats

Indian athletics contingent rounded off their dismal show in the Rio Olympics with a below-par effort from the 4x400m relay quartets, which saw them crash out of their respective heats in Rio de Janeiro on Friday. The women’s team finished seventh in their Heats even as the men’s team faced embarrassment of being disqualified....

Putin visits annexed Crimea after Ukraine incursion claim
Aug20

Putin visits annexed Crimea after Ukraine incursion claim

Putin chaired a meeting of his powerful security council in Crimea as he made his fifth visit to the strategic Black Sea peninsula since annexing it from Ukraine in March 2014. …read more Source: Hindustan...

Putin visits Crimea a day after war games
Aug19

Putin visits Crimea a day after war games

Vladimir Putin flew into Crimea on Friday a day after staging war games there, and said he hoped Ukraine would see “common sense” when it came to resolving a diplomatic crisis over the peninsula. T… …read more Source: The...

Donald Trump’s campaign chairman Paul Manafort resigns
Aug19

Donald Trump’s campaign chairman Paul Manafort resigns

Paul Manafort resigned as chairman of US Republican candidate Donald Trump’s presidential campaign on Friday, days after he was effectively demoted in a shake-up of the campaign’s leadership. “This morning Paul Manafort offered, and I accepted, his resignation from the campaign,” Trump said in a statement. “I am very...

Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort resigns
Aug19

Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort resigns

Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort resigns in wake of campaign shakeup and revelations about Ukraine work. …read more Source: The...

Vladimir Putin arrives in Crimea after Ukraine incursion claims
Aug19

Vladimir Putin arrives in Crimea after Ukraine incursion claims

Moscow, Aug 19: Russian President Vladimir Putin today arrived in annexed Crimea, Russian news agencies reported, days after he accused Kiev of attempting an armed incursion into the peninsula. Putin is to chair a meeting of his powerful security council in Crimea and visit a youth forum on his fifth visit to the strategic Black Sea peninsula...

Ukraine details payments allegedly earmarked for Trump aide
Aug19

Ukraine details payments allegedly earmarked for Trump aide

Ukraine’s National Anti-Corruption Bureau said, however, that it cannot prove that Mr. Manafort actually received the money because other people including a prominent Party of the Regions deputy signed for him in those entries. …read more Source: The...

Angela Merkel sees no end to EU sanctions against Russia
Aug19

Angela Merkel sees no end to EU sanctions against Russia

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Saina Nehwal admitted in Hyderabad hospital
Aug19

Saina Nehwal admitted in Hyderabad hospital

India ace Saina Nehwal was admitted to a hospital in Hyderabad to undergo treatment for her knee injury which affected her progress in the badminton event of the Rio Olympics. The 26-year-old had lost her second group match against Ukraine’s Maria Ulitina to crash out of the Rio Olympics. “Saina has been hospitalised for the last two...

Rio 2016 | Athletics: Canada’s Derek Drouin leaps to gold in men’s high jump
Aug18

Rio 2016 | Athletics: Canada’s Derek Drouin leaps to gold in men’s high jump

Canada’s Derek Drouin took gold in the men’s high jump on Tuesday, clearing a height of 2.38 metres to beat the competition. Qatar’s Mutaz Essa Barshim claimed silver, narrowly missing out on his country’s first Olympic gold, while Bogdan Bondarenko of Ukraine landed bronze. Embed from Getty Images Drouin, the reigning...