AUGUST 27, 2018
A record and medal: Neeraj Chopra’s effort helped him become the country’s first javelin gold medallist at the Games. | Photo Credit: DARREN WHITESIDE
Dharun, Neena and Sudha win silver medals
He does not predict big throws, just assures you that he would give his best. Once again, Neeraj Chopra let his throws do all the talking as...
AUGUST 27, 2018
Amit Samarth on how he spent 25 sleepless days cycling along the midlands of Russia
It’s the nights that are the most difficult. “When I was cycling through the forests of Siberia after sundown, the loneliness struck even harder. I called it ghostriding because at that point of time, I was convinced I was a ghost,” says Amit...
AUGUST 26, 2018
President Trump nixed issuing a statement that praised the heroism and life of Sen. John McCain, telling senior aides he preferred to issue a tweet before posting one Saturday night that did not include any kind words for the late Arizona Republican.
Press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Chief of Staff John F. Kelly and other White House aides...
AUGUST 26, 2018
JAKARTA, INDONESIA - PV Sindhu and Saina Nehwal both won their respective quarter-finals to assure medals in singles badminton event at the Asian Games in Jakarta on Sunday.
World number three PV Sindhu assured herself of at least a bronze medal with a 21-11, 16-21, 21-14 win over Nitchaon Jindapol of Thailand.
Saina Nehwal on the other hand defeated...
AUGUST 26, 2018
Cardinal Theodore McCarrick speaks during a memorial service in South Bend, Ind. at Seton Hall University in 2015. A former Vatican ambassador said Pope Francis and Pope Benedict were aware of Cardinal McCarrick’s alleged sexual misconduct for years before his behavior exploded into view this summer. (Robert Franklin/South Bend Tribune via AP, Pool, File)
DUBLIN —...
AUGUST 26, 2018
George W. Bush honors McCain as a 'man of deep conviction and a patriot of the highest order'
John McCain requested that former Presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush deliver eulogies at his funeral, CBS News has confirmed. McCain, who had been suffering from an aggressive form of brain cancer, died Saturday at the age of 81...
AUGUST 26, 2018
Park Geun-hye arriving in court a year ago. An appeals court added a year to the ousted South Korean president’s prison term on Friday. - (Credit - Pool photo by Kim Hong-Ji)
SEOUL, South Korea — Park Geun-hye, South Korea’s impeached and ousted president, was sentenced Friday to 25 years in prison, as an appeals court convicted her...
AUGUST 25, 2018
Sen/. John McCain in 2017.- AP
Sen. McCain, 81, died Aug. 25 at his ranch near Sedona, Ariz., his office announced in a statement. The senator was diagnosed last July with a brain tumor, and his family announced this week that he was discontinuing medical treatment.
During three decades of representing Arizona in the Senate, he ran twice...
AUGUST 25, 2018
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Long before the convictions last week of two former members of President Trump’s inner circle, the political left’s expectations for the Russia investigation were at a fever pitch.
Democrats predicted that the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, would break with a half-century of policy and prosecute a sitting president. One MSNBC panel considered how...
AUGUST 25, 2018
Congress president Rahul Gandhi at an interactive session at the London School of Economics on August 24, 2018. | Photo Credit: PTI
Whether Rafale or Mallya and Nirav or employment scene, Congress president brings up the Prime Minister’s name
Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Saturday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of being “unpatriotic” for misusing public anger over...
