Orissa home secretary Bipin Saxena, state women commission chairperson Lopamudra Buxipatra, BJP Rajya Sabha member Dharmendra Pradhan, BJD MP Renubala Pradhan and former Union railway minister K.C. Lenka were among several eminent persons who on Monday met brutally attacked Oriya software engineer and social activist Linkan Subudhi at Kailash Hospital. Noida, and wished her early recovery.

Over the past few weeks, Formula One fans and moviegoers around the world have been thrilled by Ron Howard’s account of the gripping 1976 title battle between James Hunt and Niki Lauda in the biographical action film “Rush”.

An armed man pursued onto the campus of North Carolina Central University was shot and killed in nearby woods after challenging officers, police said Tuesday. Durham police tracked the suspect onto the campus late Monday, prompting officials to lock down the school for several hours.

A war of words erupted between the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party on Monday on the state of the Indian economy under the coalition governments led by their respective parties at the Centre.

The Centre has asked all state and Central intelligence and security agencies to keep the “relevant authorities’’ in Nepal informed before carrying out any operation, including covert operations related to arrest, in their country.

The revelation of her doping offence came as an embarrassment for the nation ahead of the Asian athletics meet held in Pune this July. And now months after, the National Anti-Doping Agency is yet to start a hearing against shot putter Udaya Laxmi Peddinedi, once a top women quarter-miler, who has flouted anti-doping rules more than once.

Colombo, Sept. 22: Sri Lanka’s main Tamil party on Sunday secured a landslide win in the historic provincial council polls held after a gap of 25 years in the former LTTE-ruled Northern Province, an outcome set to renew demands for greater autonomy for Tamils after the end of decades of ethnic war.

The government on Sunday said that there is no truth in the charges being levelled by yoga guru Swami Ramdev that it was behind his detention at London’s Heathrow airport.

Mallesh Narredu-trained Falcon was ably guided by Suraj Narredu to bag the S.A. Poonawalla Multi-Million the feature event of the races held here on Sunday.

A Mumbai-based bookie fixed an IPL match for `6 crore after striking deals with four players of Sunrisers Hyderabad, according to a statement by this bookie that has been included by the Mumbai police crime branch in its chargesheet filed on Saturday.