SHAME: 1 in 4 Indians still practice untouchability

Children sitting inside cement water pipes play on the Marina beach in Chennai. Photograph: Babu/Reuters Sixty-five years after untouchability was abolished, one in four Indians admit to......

Mumbai hooch tragedy: 4 get lifer, 15 get two years jail

Four persons were sentenced to life imprisonment and 15 others sent to jail for two years by a local court for supplying spurious liquor to a group of people as a result of which 87 people had died......

Parimarjan Negi clinches National chess title

Grandmaster Parimarjan Negi of PSPB clinched the National title after settling for a quick draw against Grandmaster Tejas Bakre in the final round of the REC National Premier Chess Championship in......

I will miss the Mumbai dressing room: Muzumdar

He was 'The Wall' of Mumbai's cricket. When he walked in to bat, the opposition knew that dismissing him early was vital in order to beat the oft-crowned Ranji Trophy champions. So Thursday was a......

Eesha, Adhiban get IM norms

Woman Grandmaster Eesha Karavade completed her third and final International Master norm after settling for a quick draw with IM Al Sayed Mohamad of Qatar in the ninth and final round of the Dubai......

Humpy strikes back in Dubai

Grandmaster Koneru Humpy got back into the reckoning after defeating International Master Sergey Kayumov of Uzbekistan in the sixth round of the Dubai International Chess championship in Dubai on......

Ramesh on course for title

Grandmaster R B Rameshwas assured ofhis second titleas hemaintained anunassailable one-point lead with yet another draw in the 12th and penultimate round of the 43rd Parsvanath National 'B' Chess......