Patnaik seeks amendment in Forest Rights Act

Hundreds of tribals and forest dwellers today staged a demonstration here protesting the manner in which the Odisha government is implementing the Forest Rights Act, 2006.

Allyson Felix and Caster Semenya lit up the track to bring the curtain down on the World Athletics Championships in great style on Sunday. However, not for the first time, but certainly the last as an athlete, Usain Bolt stole the show. Retiring superstar ...

IMAGE: Viswanathan Anand in action. Photograph: Grand Chess Tour/Twitter Five-time world champion Viswanathan Anand finished joint second after playing out a draw with Wesley So of United States in the Sinquefield Cup, which concluded in St Louis, USA. Finishing with a tally of 5.5 points out of a possible nine, Anand also gained some valuable rating points to inch closer to the 2800 rating mark. With seven draws and two victories, Anand has moved to seventh place in the world ranking. Maxime ...

Anand draws with Vachier-Lagrave; remains in joint lead IMAGE: Viswanathan Anand. Photograph: PTI. Five-time world champion Viswanathan Anand played out a draw with Maxime Vachier-Lagrave of France to remain in joint lead after the end of the eighth and penultimate round of Sinquefield Cup, a part of the Grand Chess tour. Anand played his last white game in the tournament against Vachier-Lagrave and had a small advantage but the Frenchman was quite up to the task in defense and steered the ...

South African star Wayde van Niekerk is halfway to his target of the 400 metres and 200m world double after easing to victory in the former on Tuesday in London. The 25-year-old's task of landing both eased considerably with main rival Isaac Makwala of ...

IMAGE: Viswanathan Anand in action during Round 6. Photograph: Courtesy, Spectrum Studios/Grand Chess Tour Former World champion Viswanathan Anand played out an easy draw against Sergey Karjakin of Russia to remain in joint second spot in the Sinquefield Cup chess tournament, in St Louis, United States.Known as the minister of defense, Karjakin could not really gain anything with white pieces and Anand had little trouble in executing his plans.With his fourth draw in five games combined with a ...

Five-time world champion Viswanathan Anand played out an easy draw with nemesis Hikaru Nakamura of United States to kickstart his campaign in the Sinquefield Cup, a part of the Grand Chess tour. Among the chess elite, Nakamura has troubled Anand like no one ...

Usain Bolt ran under 10 seconds for the first time this year as he narrowly won the 100 metres at the Monaco Diamond League meeting on Friday. The eight-times Olympic sprinting champion was slow out of the blocks, just as he was in his last race in Ostrava ...

Johanna Konta became the first British woman to reach the Wimbledon semifinals for 39 years as the world number seven fought back to beat Simona Halep 6-7 (2), 7-6 (5), 6-4 on Tuesday. Konta thrilled the patriotic Centre Court crowd in a quarterfinal classic ...