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Table tennis star Manika Batra and cricketer Deepti Sharma were among those who were presented the National Sports Awards by President Ram Nath Kovind on Saturday. Commonwealth Games gold medallist Batra, alongwith Indian women's hockey captain Rani Rampal and 2016 Rio Paralympics gold medallist Mariyappan Thangavelu were presented the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award. ....

The Indian Premier League (IPL) Governing Council on Saturday announced online education platform Unacademy as official partner of the IPL beginning with the 2020 edition, which starts on September 19 in the UAE. The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) said that partnership will be for three IPL seasons. ....

With several reports claiming that actress Rhea Chakraborty has confessed that the drug-related chats featuring her are authentic, her lawyer downplayed it on Saturday evening, saying they would only take the official word from the investigating agency to be the truth.....

Actress Genelia Deshmukh revealed she had tested Covid-19 positive three weeks ago, adding that her report came in as negative on Saturday.....

Sadak 2 (film streaming on Disney+ Hotstar); Cast: Sanjay Dutt, Pooja Bhatt, Alia Bhatt, Aditya Roy Kapur, Jisshu Sengupta, Gulshan Grover, Makarand Deshpande, Priyanka Bose, Mohan Kapoor, Akshay Anand; Direction: Mahesh Bhatt; Rating: * and 1/2 (one and a half stars) ....

Airline major IndiGo on Saturday operated its maiden passenger charter to Vietnamese capital Hanoi, and Laos' Vientiane to help stranded nationals get back home. ....

Maharashtra's Covid-19 cases recorded a new peak above the 16K-mark while Pune Circle crossed the 2 lakh patients figure, even as the state's death toll zoomed above the 24K level, health officials said here on Saturday. ....

The conductor of a deluxe double-decker night bus, on way to Delhi from Lucknow, has been arrested in Uttar Pradesh's Mathura, after a woman passenger complained on the 112 helpline that she had been raped in the moving vehicle, police said on Saturday. ....

The National Conference on Saturday hit out against the Centre for the removal of Jammu and Kashmir's special status in August last year and all subsequent actions as it backed party President Farooq Abdullah's aim to bring all parties and civil society groups together "to pitch for restoration of what was unconstitutionally snatched from the people". ....

The one thing the pandemic has been unable to disrupt is your sweet tooth. Many of us have thrown caution to the wind, with no gyms and lockdown as a great excuse to indulge. With the festive season just around the corner, celebrations and sweets are very much on the top of your mind. ....