National Level Shooting

Cloudy skies in the national capital kept the mercury in check on Saturday but high humidity caused some inconvenience to the residents.

Esha Singh, who is the daughter of a national level rally driver, won medals in the youth, junior and senior categories.

A rumbling volcano on the resort island of Bali could erupt at any moment, authorities warned today as they raised alert levels to maximum, accelerated a mass evacuation and closed the main airport, leaving tourists stranded. Massive columns of thick grey smoke that have been belching from Mount Agung since last week have now begun shooting more th...

An ace shooter and son of jailed 'don' Mukhtar Ansari, Abbas Ansari has two targets -- win the Ghosi assembly seat and garner votes from Muslims in eastern Uttar Pradesh. The 25-year-old national-level shooter, who is contesting from Ghosi as the Bahujan Samaj Party candidate, is confident of winning.

A national level shooter has accused her coach, also a former shooter and Olympian, of spiking her drink at a party and raping her.

Abhinav Bindra, India's only individual Olympic gold medalist, said India were at the minus 30 level when it came to sports science.

The national capital's air quality oscillated between 'poor' and 'very poor' on the eve of Diwali, with fireworks and bursting of crackers during the festival expected to dangerously shoot up the level of suspended particulate matter.

Weak monsoon and rising temperatures have led to shooting up of pollution levels in the national capital to an "alarming" level in July and August, breaking a four-year record.

Onion prices continue to remain volatile with the rates shooting up again to Rs 75-80 per kg level in the retail markets of the national capital. The prices are about 30 per cent higher from the Rs 60 per kg level seen in Delhi last week.

The world's population will rise to 9.7 billion in 2050 from the current level of 7.1 billion and India will overtake China as the world's most populous nation, a French study said Wednesday.

Ten-year-old Yash Padloskar comes across as a 'minor' but refreshing exception in a state where shooting is often viewed as an art practised by politicians, who spit and rattle out a volley of blanks on every election eve.The 'pocket-sized' shooting prodigy, who hails from Mapusa, about 10 km from here, blazed a fiery trail in Ranchi, where he comp...

Cloudy skies in the national capital kept the mercury in check on Saturday but high humidity caused some inconvenience to the residents.

Esha Singh, who is the daughter of a national level rally driver, won medals in the youth, junior and senior categories.

A rumbling volcano on the resort island of Bali could erupt at any moment, authorities warned today as they raised alert levels to maximum, accelerated a mass evacuation and closed the main airport, leaving tourists stranded. Massive columns of thick grey smoke that have been belching from Mount Agung since last week have now begun shooting more th...

An ace shooter and son of jailed 'don' Mukhtar Ansari, Abbas Ansari has two targets -- win the Ghosi assembly seat and garner votes from Muslims in eastern Uttar Pradesh. The 25-year-old national-level shooter, who is contesting from Ghosi as the Bahujan Samaj Party candidate, is confident of winning.

A national level shooter has accused her coach, also a former shooter and Olympian, of spiking her drink at a party and raping her.

Abhinav Bindra, India's only individual Olympic gold medalist, said India were at the minus 30 level when it came to sports science.

The national capital's air quality oscillated between 'poor' and 'very poor' on the eve of Diwali, with fireworks and bursting of crackers during the festival expected to dangerously shoot up the level of suspended particulate matter.

Weak monsoon and rising temperatures have led to shooting up of pollution levels in the national capital to an "alarming" level in July and August, breaking a four-year record.

Onion prices continue to remain volatile with the rates shooting up again to Rs 75-80 per kg level in the retail markets of the national capital. The prices are about 30 per cent higher from the Rs 60 per kg level seen in Delhi last week.

The world's population will rise to 9.7 billion in 2050 from the current level of 7.1 billion and India will overtake China as the world's most populous nation, a French study said Wednesday.

Ten-year-old Yash Padloskar comes across as a 'minor' but refreshing exception in a state where shooting is often viewed as an art practised by politicians, who spit and rattle out a volley of blanks on every election eve.The 'pocket-sized' shooting prodigy, who hails from Mapusa, about 10 km from here, blazed a fiery trail in Ranchi, where he comp...