- IPL 2022: Mumbai Indians to play for pride, Chennai Super Kings survival
Their IPL play-off hopes hanging by a thread, Chennai Super Kings will face their fiercest rivals, a down and out Mumbai Indians, in their bid to stay afloat in the competition here on Thursday.
- Fresh heat - wave spell in Delhi from Friday
The maximum temperature in Delhi is likely to hover around the 40-degree mark on Wednesday and start increasing thereafter as moisture-carrying easterly winds make way for hot and dry westerlies.
- Posing as banker, man dupes elderly, nailed in Panchkula
The police have arrested a person who posed as a bank officer and duped senior citizens on the pretext of verification. He has been identified as Sunil Kumar Mandela, a resident of Dumurkola Gulaldih village in Deoghar district of Jharkhand.
- Nine pilots failed pre - flight alcohol test, says DGCA
The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) today said nine pilots and 32 cabin-crew members failed pre-flight alcohol tests between January 1 and April 30.
- Supreme Court puts sedition law on hold
In a historic order, the Supreme Court on Wednesday asked the Centre and states not to register any cases of sedition under Section 124A of the Indian Penal Code pending an exercise to review the colonial law.
- Lankan crisis
MAHINDA Rajapaksa’s resignation as the Sri Lankan Prime Minister, handed over to younger brother President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, is unlikely to stem the wave of anger against the influential family over the handling of the island nation’s worst economic crisis since gaining independence in
- End of an era: Apple discontinues iconic iPod after 20 years
Apple has announced to discontinue the iPod that was introduced over 20 years ago and captivated users all over the world with music on the go.
- India fully supportive of Lanka's democracy; Indian mission denies speculative media reports on sending troops
The Indian High Commission here on Wednesday categorically denied speculative media reports about New Delhi sending its troops to Colombo, saying India is fully supportive of Sri Lanka's democracy, stability and economic recovery.
- India will need 1 lakh drone pilots: Jyotiraditya Scindia
Minister for Civil Aviation Jyotiraditya Scindia has said the central government’s 12 ministries are trying to boost the indigenous demand for drone services and India would need around one lakh drone pilots in the coming years.
- India records 2,897 new covid - 19 cases, 54 more deaths
With 2,897 coronavirus infections being reported in a day, India's tally of cases rose to 4,31,10,586, even as active cases have decreased to 19,494, according to Union health ministry data updated on Tuesday.
- Cyclone Asani weakens as it approaches Andhra coast
Severe Cyclone Asani weakened to a cyclonic storm on Wednesday as it barrelled towards north coastal Andhra Pradesh and came within 34 km of Narsapur in the state, packing wind speed of 85 km per hour and bringing heavy rains to the region, the weather office said here.
- BharatPe sacks staff, vendors; to claw back shares from Ashneer Grover
Payments startup BharatPe on Tuesday said it has terminated several employees and vendors as well as filed criminal cases against them for misconduct besides deciding to claw back former founder Ashneer Grover’s restricted shares in the firm.
- Failures important for growth: Sanjay Bishnoi
I decided to join Barry John Acting Studio while preparing for my medical exams and ended up working with him and other theater professionals for four years. Then I got an offer for an independent film, titled Ashok Vatika, which is streaming on MX player. Eventually Mukesh Chhabra’s casting c
- Supreme Court to govt: Can sedition cases be kept in abeyance till review?
As the Centre decides to re-examine the law on sedition, the Supreme Court on Tuesday asked it to spell out if all sedition cases filed across India could be kept in abeyance till the review of Section 124A of the IPC was completed.
- No response from govt on MSP panel's terms of reference: Yadav
Farmer leader Yogendra Yadav on Tuesday said that the government had not yet communicated the terms of reference of the proposed committee on the MSP to the Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM).
- Indices in red for third day; Tata Steel nosedives 7%
Mumbai: Equity indices failed to hold on to their gains in see-saw trade on Tuesday, ending in the red for the third straight session. The Sensex shed 105.82 points to close at 54,364.85. The Nifty declined 61.80 points to finish at 16,240.05.
- Delhi court orders CFSL to provide copy of voice samples to accused
A Delhi court hearing the HCS (judicial) paper leak case has ordered the Central Forensic Science Laboratory (CFSL), Chandigarh, for supplying the copies of the voice samples collected in the case to the accused.
- Ludhiana: Gurminder adds 3 medals to kitty
Gurminder Singh Ubhi continued to make headlines as he added three medals, including two gold, to his kitty. He secured gold medals in the 400m and 800m races, besides finishing first runner-up in the 200m race in the National Masters Athletics Meet, organised by the Khelo Masters Games Foundation,
- No non - teaching duties for government schoolteachers in Punjab: CM
Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann exhorted the teaching community to bring about ‘educational revolution’ in the state by making the education system job oriented, creating congenial environs of teaching-learning process and by changing the negative perceptions about government schools
- BJP: Coordinated efforts needed to tackle terror in Punjab
Extending full cooperation to the AAP government in Punjab to deal with terror challenges, the BJP today called for coordinated efforts to defeat the designs of the nation’s enemies.
- Don't waver on minority status to Hindus, consult states, government told
The Supreme Court on Tuesday took exception to the Centre changing its stand on declaring Hindus as minority in the nine states and union territories where they are numerically lesser in number, saying that taking different stands won’t help.
- Former Telecom Minister Sukhram dies at 94
Former Telecom Minister and Congress leader from Mandi, Pandit Sukhram passed away at AIIMS, Delhi in the wee hours today. He was 94.
- FCRA violations: 40 sites raided, NGOs under lens
In a massive crackdown against officials of the Union Ministry of Home Affairs' (MHA) foreigners’ division, NGO representatives and middlemen, the CBI today conducted raids at 40 locations in a case related to allegedly violation of the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA) in receiving f
- AFSPA to be revoked from all Assam districts soon, says Amit Shah
Union Home Minister Amit Shah today exuded confidence that the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) would soon be revoked from entire Assam, as improved law and order and peace accords with militant outfits during the last six years had already led to its partial withdrawal in the state.
- Sudden surge by Aishwarya, Kamalpreet had raised doubts
Quarter-miler Aishwarya Mishra’s sudden disappearance has once again raised the spectre of doping in Indian sports. Aishwarya raised eyebrows after she clocked 51.18 seconds to win the 400 metres gold at the Federation Cup in Kozhikode last month.