United Nations: World hunger rose in 2021, with around 2.3 billion people facing moderate or severe difficulty obtaining enough to eat — and that was before the Ukraine war, which has sparked increases in the cost of grain, fertiliser and energy, according to a UN report released Wednesday. “The State of Food Security and Nutrition […]
UNITED NATIONS: Lieutenant-General Mohan Subramanian of the Indian Army has been appointed by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres as his new Force Commander of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS). Lt.Gen.Subramanian succeeds Lt.Gen.Shailesh Tinaikar, also from the Indian Army, “to whom the Secretary-General is grateful for his tireless dedication, invaluable service and effective leadership […]
SOUTHAMPTON: Experimentation will go out of the window as India will get down to finalising their best eleven for the World Cup during the three-match T20 series against an ultra-aggressive England, beginning here on Thursday. Skipper Rohit Sharma, who missed the fifth Test in Birmingham after contracting COVID-19, will be travelling to the port city […]
NEW DELHI: Shikhar Dhawan was on Wednesday named India captain for the three ODIs against the West Indies in the absence of regular skipper Rohit Sharma, while Virat Kohli and Rishabh Pant were among those who have been rested for the series beginning on July 22 in Port of Spain, Trinidad. Two other senior players, […]
DUBAI: India’s star wicketkeeper-batter Rishabh Pant blazed his way into a career-best fifth position in the latest ICC Test rankings announced on Wednesday, even as the out-of-form Virat Kohli dropped out of top-10 for the first time in six years. Pant’s meteoric rise in the rankings comes after his heroics in the recently-held Covid-delayed fifth […]
AMSTELVEEN: A lacklustre Indian women’s hockey team would need to tick all boxes against New Zealand in its final Pool B match here on Thursday to seal a direct berth in the quarterfinals of the FIH World Cup. The Indians, who achieved a historic fourth place finish in last year’s Olympics, drew 1-1 against Tokyo […]
New Delhi: Cooking gas LPG price on Wednesday was hiked by Rs 50 per cylinder, the third increase in rates since May on firming international energy prices. Non-subsidised LPG now costs Rs 1,053 per 14.2-kg cylinder in the national capital, up from Rs 1,003 previously, according to a price notification of state-owned fuel retailers. Common […]
New Delh:The CBI is conducting searches at 16 locations across the country in connection with the alleged graft flagged by former Jammu and Kashmir Governor Satya Pal Malik in awarding contract for civil work for the Kishtwar-based Kiru Hydro Power Project Limited in 2019, officials said Wednesday. The search operations are spread across two places […]
BJP issues show-cause notice to its Jammu minority morcha chief Jammu: Facing flak over its alleged link with arrested LeT militant Talib Hussain Shah, the BJP on Tuesday issued a show-cause notice to party’s Jammu Minority Morcha president Sheikh Bashir after an order purportedly written by him about the appointment of Shah as official of […]
Kolkata: Accusing the BJP of using its “members” to fan communal violence in the country ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, the Trinamool Congress on Tuesday demanded a judicial probe into the alleged links of the saffron party with the main accused in the Udaipur tailor’s murder case and a militant nabbed in Kashmir […]