PORT OF SPAIN: India’s fringe players will get valuable game time in a format fighting for context when Shikhar Dhawan leads the team in the three-match ODI series against the West Indies, beginning here on Friday. Ben Stokes’ surprise announcement from ODIs has fuelled the growing debate on hectic international scheduling, especially bilateral cricket. The […]
New Delhi: Leading carmakers are grappling with a huge backlog of around 6.5 lakh units, with chip shortage continuing to crimp their manufacturing activities and leading to long waiting period for customers. The country’s largest carmaker Maruti Suzuki India alone has a backlog of around 3.4 lakh units while Hyundai and Mahindra & Mahindra have […]
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Thursday appointed senior advocate Maninder Singh as an amicus curiae to assist it in the matter related to the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) and fixed the hearing on the plea of the cricket body for amending its constitution concerning tenure of office bearers on July […]
BERLIN: Natural gas started flowing through a major pipeline from Russia to Europe on Thursday after a 10-day shutdown for maintenance, the operator said. But the gas flow was expected to fall well short of full capacity. The Nord Stream 1 pipeline to Germany had been closed since July 11 for annual maintenance work. Amid […]
New Delhi, The Congress on Wednesday alleged the Parliament’s functioning is being affected because of the government’s obstinacy to not allow the Opposition’s demand for a discussion on hike in GST on food items. Congress General Secretary and Chief Whip in Rajya Sabha Jairam Ramesh said the Opposition has been demanding an urgent discussion on […]
Says no Kashmiri Pandit migrated from Valley since August 2019 New Delhi: As many as 118 civilians, including five Kashmiri Pandits and 16 other Hindus and Sikhs, were killed in Kashmir since the abrogation of Article 370 in 2019, the government said Wednesday. Union Minister of State for Home Nityanand Rai also said in Rajya […]
New Delhi: A total of 24,134 people were arrested and faced trial under the anti-terror law Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) between 2016 and 2020 and only 212 of them were convicted, the government informed Parliament on Wednesday. In a written reply to a question in the Rajya Sabha, Union Minister of State for Home […]
New Delhi: The central government has approved construction of 6,000 transit accommodations for Kashmiri migrant employees working in the Valley under a special package of the prime minister, the Rajya Sabha was informed on Wednesday. Union Minister of State for Home Nityanand Rai also said the government has acquired state land (including Khalsa Sarkar, Kahchrie, […]
United Nations: Days after the UN Secretary General’s report on Children and Armed Conflict’ mentioned India, New Delhi has expressed concern that the report includes situations that are not situations of armed conflict or threats to maintenance of international peace and security. The report released last week mentions the situation in India under the category […]
Srinagar: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Wednesday conducted searches at nine locations in the Kashmir valley in connection with a case related to the recovery of a huge cache of arms and ammunition here, an official said. Two local “hybrid” militants of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) were arrested in the Chanapora area of Srinagar on May […]