New Delhi: Where talent meets opportunity: the IPL lived up to its motto yet again with the 2022 season unearthing a battery of pacers — some raw and some already polished — and a potential India captain in Hardik Pandya. In his first full season for Hyderabad, Umran Malik attracted the world’s attention with his […]
New Delhi: India opened their account at the ongoing ISSF World Cup with the trio of Elavenil Valarivan, Ramita and Shreya Agrawal claiming the gold medal in the 10m air rifle team women competition in Baku, Azerbaijan. The Indian trio outplayed Denmark represented by Anna Nielsen, Emma Koch and Rikke Maeng Ibsen, 17-5 in the […]
New Delhi: The sweet taste of the Thomas Cup title win will linger but Chirag Shetty, one of the architects of that historic triumph, knows it’s time to move on and focus on the next challenge at hand — Commonwealth Games. One half of India’s best doubles pair, Chirag played a pivotal role both on […]
Srinagar: Kashmiri Pandits employed under the PM package hit the streets at various places in the Valley on Tuesday to protest the killing of a woman teacher by terrorists in Kulgam district of Jammu and Kashmir. Rajni Bala (36), who belonged to Samba district and was posted at a government school in Gopalpora, was shot […]
New Delhi: Fiscal deficit for 2021-22 worked out to be 6.71 per cent of the gross domestic product (GDP), lower than 6.9 per cent projected by the Finance Ministry in the revised Budget Estimates, according to government data released on Tuesday. Unveiling the revenue-expenditure data of the Union government for 2020-21, the Controller General of […]
Jammu: A day after security forces shot down a drone carrying explosives, Police on Monday asked residents of Kathua district to inspect vehicles before turning them on. A North Korea-made drone sent from Pakistan with a payload of seven magnetic or sticky bombs and an equal number of under barrel launcher grenades was shot down […]
United Nations: A change in the name of the Al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) magazine “suggests a refocusing” of the militant group from Afghanistan to Kashmir, a UN report has said. The 13th report of the Analytical Support and Sanctions Monitoring Team submitted pursuant to resolution 2611 (2021) concerning the Taliban and other associated […]
United Nations: Pakistan-based militant groups such as Jaish-e-Mohammed and Lashkar-e-Taiba maintain their training camps in some provinces of Afghanistan and some of them are directly under the Taliban control, according to a UN report. The 13th report of the Analytical Support and Sanctions Monitoring Team cites a UN Member State as saying that Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) […]
Lays foundation stones for projects for tribal community in Pulwama Srinagar: Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha on Monday said the administration is paying sustained attention to bring quality education to the underprivileged section of the society who were long deprived of their rights. Sinha was in Pulwama district to lay foundation stones for projects worth over […]
‘Defeat the merchants of hate with wisdom’ Deoband: Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind chief Maulana Mahmood Madani said those who ask Muslims to leave the country should leave themselves. According to a statement issued by the organisation, Madani objected to the plans of some states to implement Uniform Civil Code. “People of the community need not fear this, […]