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Like all mothers, Parveen Sultana was worried about her boxer-daughter Nikhat Zareen's future. For any middle-class family, getting their daughters married is of primary importance and Nikhat's parents were no different. In fact, Parveen disliked her daughter's keen interest in boxing and tried to convince her to give up the…

AHMEDABAD: Almost a year after TOI exposed allegations of corruption against IAS officer K Rajesh, who was then the Surendranagar collector, CBI officers late on Thursday night conducted searches at the residence, offices, and other premises associated with him. He and an accomplice have been held by the CBI.

DEHRADUN/PITHORAGARH: The district magistrate (DM) of Champawat and senior authorities of the state education department on Friday had a mid-day meal with students of the Sukhidang Government Inter College after some upper caste students refused to eat the meal cooked by a Dalit bhojanmata (cook).

Former world champion Ruslan Ponomariov, invited to play in the 1st Maharashtra International Grandmaster Open chess tournament to be held in Pune from May 28 to June 10, is unlikely to be part of it. Ponomariov's visa application hasn't come through and the 38-year-old Ukrainian is clearly upset about the…

Gokulam Kerala’s back-to-back historic I-League triumph along with Kerala Blasters’ spirited 2021-22 Indian Super League (ISL) run to the final has laid the foundation for catapulting the two Kerala clubs into beacons of Indian football.

NEW DELHI: Ugly scenes broke out during the selection trials for the Birmingham Commonwealth Games (CWG) here on Tuesday, when Haryana wrestler Satender Malik – representing Services Sports Control Board (SSCB) – abused and punched international referee Jagbir Singh in front of Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) president Brij Bhushan…

Pune: Increasing passenger traffic at city airport has led to a spike in hassles faced by fliers, the latest of which is waiting for long to get baggage from the luggage belts after arrival.

PUNE: Authorities of private hospitals in the city on Monday expressed their inability to administer precaution doses of the vaccine against Covid to overseas travellers till the government issued “clear guidelines”.

NOIDA: A 47-year-old woman, who was found dead near the staircase leading to her first-floor apartment in a Sector 137 society on May 11, had submitted a rape complaint against a neighbour in Uttarakhand four days earlier, police here have learnt.

DEHRADUN: A 40-year-old man hailing from Madurai, Tamil Nadu, was found wandering alone in the jungles of Bageshwar district, around 320 km away from Dehradun, on Friday by some locals who were out for their morning walk. He was in a shabby condition with long hair, dirty nails and torn…

BENGALURU: In Karnataka, which has reported 40,063 Covid-19 deaths so far, 58,753 families have applied for death compensation. Of these, 50,007 have received relief as of May 13. Payment has failed for 5,325 applications over bank details, and 3,421 are awaiting approval.