DHARAMSALA,OCTO 23: In the end, it was a contest that lived up to the hype. From Daryl Mitchell’s success story to Mohammed Shami’s dream return to the playing XI to Mitchell Santner’s stellar spell to Black Caps fielders throwing themselves on the field to the anticlimactic end to Virat Kohli’s quest of equalling Sachin Tendulkar’s […]Continue Reading
NEW DELHI,OCTO 22: Cyclone ‘Tej’, brewing in the Arabian Sea, intensified into an extremely severe cyclonic storm on Sunday and is headed towards the Yemen-Oman coasts, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said. The cyclonic storm is predicted to move northwestwards and cross the Yemen-Oman coasts between Al Ghaidah (Yemen) and Salalah (Oman), close to the Continue Reading
NEW DELHI,OCTO 22: India invoked the provision of parity in Canada’s diplomatic presence in the country in view of concerns over interference in New Delhi’s affairs by Canadian personnel, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said on Sunday. The external affairs minister also said that India is likely to resume issuance of visas to Canadians if […]Continue Reading
PUNE,OCTO 22: A training aircraft belonging to a private aviation academy crashed near a village in Maharashtra’s Pune district on Sunday morning, injuring a trainee pilot and an instructor on board the plane, police said. The aircraft crashed near Gojubavi village under Baramati taluka at around 8 am, they said. “A training aircraft, belonging to […]Continue Reading
NEW DELHI, OCTO 22 : An earthquake of magnitude 6.1 struck Nepal on Sunday morning, said the National Seismological Centre of Nepal. It added that the epicentre of the earthquake was at Dhading, which is located around 55 kilometres west of the capital Kathmandu. The quake was at a depth of 13 kilometres, said the […]Continue Reading
NEW DELHI,OCTO 21: The Congress on Saturday released its first list of 33 candidates for the Rajasthan assembly elections, fielding Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot from Sardarpura and his former deputy Sachin Pilot from Tonk. Speaker C P Joshi will contest from his Nathdwara assembly seat, while the party’s state unit president, Govind Singh Dotasra, has […]Continue Reading
NEW DELHI,OCTO 20: A low-pressure area over the southeast and the adjoining southwest Arabian Sea has developed into a depression and is expected to intensify into a cyclonic storm by October 21 morning, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said on Friday. This would be the second cyclonic storm in the Arabian Sea this year. It […]Continue Reading
NEW DELHI, OCTO 19: US President Joe Biden, who was in Israel on Wednesday to show support to the Jewish nation amid its war with the Hamas terrorist group, met survivors of the October 7 rampage. Among them was Rachel Edri, a 65-year-old retired grandmother who was held hostage at gunpoint in her home for […]Continue Reading
NEW DELHI,OCTO 18 : More than 15 years after television journalist Soumya Vishwanathan was shot dead by unknown assailants in Vasant Kunj in South Delhi, a South Delhi court has pronounced four of the accused guilty of murder. A fifth has been found guilty of possessing a stolen car. Their sentences are likely to be […]Continue Reading
NEW DELHI,OCTO 18: The Lok Sabha’s Ethics Committee on Wednesday asked BJP MP Nishikant Dubey and advocate Jai Anant Dehadrai to appear before it for “oral evidence” on October 26 in connection with his “cash for query” allegations against TMC MP Mahua Moitra. “Oral evidence of Dr Nishikant Dubey, MP, in respect of complaint dated […]Continue Reading
