CANBERRA: David Warner announced his retirement from the T20I format following Australia’s exit from the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2024, marking the end of his international cricket career after retiring from ODIs and Tests earlier this year. However, a couple of weeks later, the explosive southpaw indicated in a social media post that the […]
LONDON: England were thrashed 4-0 in 2021/22 Ashes. Skipper Joe Root and Head Coach Chris Silverwood were criticized heavily at the time for the selection calls and tactics used in the games. The team also had to deal with quarantines because of the COVID-19 pandemic and the management to counter mental fatigue rested and rotated […]
ASTANA: With terrorism becoming a threat to regional and global peace, the perpetrators, facilitators, financiers and sponsors of heinous acts of terrorism “need to be identified and punished,” External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has said, in a veiled jibe at Pakistan. In a recent interview with Astana-based Kazinform News Agency, he also emphasised that the […]
Jammu: Committed to making Jammu and Kashmir a developed region in years to come, the Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government has taken several steps, and as a part of this vision, the Lakhanpur-Doda highway will be made an all-weather connectivity for the overall progress of the region. The connectivity as per the Detailed Project Report […]
NEW DELHI: Union Home Minister Amit Shah will chair the seventh Apex Level Meeting of the Narco-Coordination Centre (NCORD) here on Thursday. He will launch on the occasion the National Narcotics Helpline ‘MANAS’ (Madak padarth Nisedh Asuchna Kendra) and inaugurate the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) Zonal Office at Srinagar. Mr Shah will also release NCB […]
NEW DELHI: Differently abled and derision have often gone hand in hand in mainstream Hindi cinema with numerous instances of impairments, visual, speech, physical and others, being used to get laughs – mostly unkind. A trend activists and lawyers hope will end with the Supreme Court’s recent “game changing” verdict. Stereotyping differently abled persons in […]
NEW DELHI: The Congress on Monday slammed the BJP for its allegation that Rahul Gandhi encouraged violence against Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying “cheap politics” should not be played on the issue of security of leaders. The BJP on Sunday had targeted the Leader of Opposition following the assassination attempt on former US president Donald […]
NEW DELHI: The wholesale inflation in India rose for the fourth consecutive month in June at 3.36%, riding on rise in prices of food articles, especially vegetables and manufactured items. The month-over-month change in WPI for June, 2024 stood at 0.39% as compared to May, 2024. The WPI based inflation was 2.61% in May, and […]
WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden used the formal setting of the White House Oval Office on Sunday to ask Americans to lower the political temperature and remember they are neighbors after a would-be assassin wounded Republican rival Donald Trump. Trump’s shooting at a rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday “calls on all of us to take […]
WASHINGTON: The world’s most powerful observatory — the James Webb Space Telescope — has made a variety of stunning discoveries since its launch in December 2021. From exoplanets to galaxies and stars languishing in distant space, the James Webb Telescope has thrilled science enthusiasts across the world with its discoveries. The most recent (July 12) […]