Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi here on Thursday renewed his appeal to all the ethnic groups agitating for separate state to resolve the differences through talks and remain like a single family.

United States sprint great Alysson Felix had a gentle run out in her first round heat at the World Athletics Championships on Thursday as she got her campaign for a fourth 200 metre title under way.

Feeling isolated and left out, BJP patriarch L.K. Advani has decided to make Mr Modi’s run for the top post as rough as possible, a senior BJP functionary said and added that Mr Advani’s remarks yet again “brings out the simmering differences within the BJP”.

In a bid to elaborate the effect of pictorial warnings on tobacco products, India is all set to introduce “larger” health warnings.

Barcelona begin the defence of their La Liga crown on Sunday amid doubts over the strength of their backline, Neymar’s adaptation to European football and how new coach Gerardo ‘Tata’ Martino will perform.

Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi’s attempts to denigrate the sanctity of the Independence Day by his election speech in Bhuj is not going down well among political parties. While the Congress hit back at him for indulging in “petty politics”, even the regional players, including non-Congress CMs, have not come out in his support so far.

In an apparent bid to woo nearly two lakh state government employees in the election year, Chhattisgarh chief minister Raman Singh here on Thursday announced extension of retirement age for them from 60 to 62.

The International Olympic Committee has put in a spanner in the works for corruption-tainted officials eyeing a comeback into the Indian Olympic Association fold.

A prominent leader of the Telugu Desam and former MP, Lal Jan Basha, was killed in a road mishap at Narketpally in Nalgonda district on Thursday morning. Basha, 56, was going to Guntur from Hyderabad in his Innova car when the vehicle rammed into a divider on National Highway 16, near Kamineni Y. junction at around 8.15 am.

While a concrete opinion on the probable cause of the incident remains to be ascertained, suspicion heavily rests on the Klub-S (3M-14E) cruise missile that the submarine was redesigned to fire.