Thousands of widows of Vrindavan and women abandoned by their families celebrated Diwali by lighting earthen lamps at the Keshi Ghat on the Yamuna river in Mathura.
Sukanya Verma asks you to brace yourself for an out-of-body-experience on OTT this Diwali week.
The 22-year-old expressed his feelings after being selected for the BGT 2024-25 series.
A look at Virat Kohli's worst-ever showing in a Test series consisting of three matches or more.
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Bumrah also said that the team has finalised its playing XI although he will reveal it only at the toss.
Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), Whitefield, Shivakumar on Tuesday confirmed that Bengaluru-based techie Atul Subhash died by suicide in the early hours of December 9 following harassment from his wife and her family.
Just over a month after the death of Liam Payne, mourners gathered on Wednesday for a private funeral service.
Indian club East Bengal produced an utterly dominant show to crush Bangladesh's Bashundhara Kings 4-0 in their AFC Challenge League match in Thimphu on Tuesday.
Jasmine Paolini put on a tennis masterclass to steer Italy to a fifth Billie Jean King Cup title as she beat Rebecca Sramkova 6-2, 6-1 in the second singles rubber to wrap up a 2-0 win over Slovakia in the final on Wednesday.
Gujarat Titans are set to retain their captain Shubman Gill alongside star spinner Rashid Khan and left-handed batter Sai Sudharsan ahead of the IPL mega auction.
Qatar's Akram Afif has been named the Asian Football Confederation's Player of the Year for a second time with Kiko Seike from Japan securing the women's title at the regional body's annual awards ceremony in Seoul on Tuesday.
The Delhi pacer is likely to make his debut in the Mumbai Test.
Scotland cricket team captain Kyle Coetzer said the team was "really proud" of the design.
A visually challenged elderly couple who were found living with the body of their 30-year-old son, unaware that he died four days ago, were rescued from their house in Hyderabad, police said on Tuesday.
The Mumbai police have arrested a 20-year-old man from Noida in Uttar Pradesh for allegedly issuing a death threat to Bollywood actor Salman Khan and Nationalist Congress Party leader Zeeshan Siddique, an official said on Tuesday.
Police in Maharashtra's Nagpur have identified a 35-year-old man from Gondia in the state as the person behind a spate of hoax bomb threats that triggered panic, caused flight delays and led to increased security at airports and other establishments, an official said.
Young striker Deepika turned out to be the star again, scoring a fine reverse hit goal as India retained the women's Asian Champions Trophy hockey title after edging past Olympics silver medallist China 1-0 in a pulsating final at Rajgir, Bihar, on Wednesday.
Australian wicketkeeper-batsmen Matthew Wade announced his retirement from international cricket and a move into coaching on Tuesday.
Rachel Gupta had done India proud by winning the first ever Miss Grand International title for India in the 11 year old competition.
Smith needs just 315 runs to become the fourth Australian batter after Ricky Ponting (13378), Allan Border (11174), and Steve Waugh (10927) to reach the landmark of 10,000 Test runs.
As per the advisory of cyber-security agency CERT-In, a digital arrest is the one in which victims receive a phone call, an e-mail or a message claiming they are under investigation for illegal activities, such as identity theft or money laundering.
'The football world is not ready to accept a player who fights against the system.'
National record holder Gulveer Singh erased a 30-year-old meet record to win the men's 5,000m race on the opening day of the 63rd National Open Athletics Championships in Bengaluru on Friday.
A grammatical problem which has defeated Sanskrit scholars since the 5th century BC has finally been solved by an Indian PhD student at the University of Cambridge, it emerged, as his thesis was published on Thursday.
The right-hander feels that keeping India's relatively inexperienced pace attack, aside from Jasprit Bumrah, on the field for as long as possible could be the key for the hosts in the five-Test series beginning in Perth on Friday.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday lauded former India women's hockey captain Rani Rampal's achievements, saying her exploits on the field will be cherished for ages to come.
Indian cricketer Ajinkya Rahane has consistently embraced challenges on the cricket field, particularly when his team has been under pressure.
The death toll in the BEST bus accident in Mumbai has risen to seven, officials on Tuesday said as experts inspected the wet leased vehicle to ascertain if it had any mechanical fault.
Ruud van Nistelrooy will take over on an interim basis.
Vaibhav Suryavanshi became one of the youngest cricketers to make a Ranji Trophy debut as he stepped out to play for Bihar on Friday.
With Kohli and Rohit misfiring, the pressure has mounted on opener Yashasvi Jaiswal and India's middle order to put the kind of scores on the board their bowlers can defend.
Smith has rarely, if ever, doubted his own talent but even he was aware that his spell at the top of the order was proving unpopular.
India's 14-year-old shooter Naamya Kapoor fired her way to the gold medal, ahead of celebrated compatriot Manu Bhaker, in the women's 25m pistol event at the ISSF Junior world Championship, in Lima, on Monday.
A police inspector and a constable have been injured after being allegedly attacked by a man and his 24-year-old son in southeast Delhi while initiating action against them for an unlawfully modified motorcycle silencer, officials said.
Arsenal moved up to second in the Premier League and within six points of Liverpool after a largely trouble-free, if slightly pedestrian, 1-0 win at home to struggling Ipswich Town on a chilly night in north London on Friday.
Former all-rounder Shane Watson has advised the Australian team to avoid getting into confrontations with Virat Kohli in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy.
Not since the golden era of the West Indies in the 1970s has a touring pace bowler struck fear into the hearts of Australians as much as Jasprit Bumrah.
Hailed as one of Indian cricket's brightest young talents, Yashasvi Jaiswal has made a dazzling start to his Test career.
The largest-selling daily in Britain had confessed to and apologised for hacking the message banks of several celebrities, sports identities and politicians two months ago.
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