New Delhi: India’s envoy to Nepal Vinay Mohan Kwatra was on Monday appointed as the new Foreign Secretary, succeeding Harsh Vardhan Shringla, who is retiring this month-end, a Personnel Ministry order said. Kwatra, a 1988-batch Indian Foreign Service (IFS) officer, has held positions in India’s diplomatic missions in Washington DC, Beijing and has also served […]
Meerut (UP): Ten people, including the state president of an outfit linked to former BJP MLA Sangeet Som, were booked for allegedly vandalising a biryani cart in this district, police said on Monday. According to police, Sajid, a biryani cart owner, alleged that his cart on Sardhana-Binauli road was vandalised and robbed by 10 people […]
Geneva: The UN health agency says nearly everybody in the world breathes air that doesn’t meet its standards for air quality, calling for more action to reduce fossil-fuel use, which generates pollutants that cause respiratory and blood-flow problems and lead to millions of preventable deaths each year. The World Health Organisation, about six months after […]
New Delhi: India’s sugar export may touch 85 lakh tonne in the ongoing 2021-22 marketing year ending September, as per the estimates of global trade houses, industry body ISMA said on Monday. While the country has contracted 72 lakh tonne of sugar export, the physical exports have been around 56-57 lakh tonne till March-end this […]
New Delhi: India’s trade deficit rose 87.5 per cent to USD 192.41 billion in 2021-22 as against USD 102.63 billion in the previous year, the government data showed on Monday. While total exports during last fiscal year increased to a record high of USD 417.81 billion, imports too soared to USD 610.22 billion, leaving a […]
NEW DELHI: Ravindra Jadeja is feeling the heat at the start of his captaincy stint at Chennai Super Kings, but he is glad to have the cool head of M.S. Dhoni to rely upon in high-pressure situations, even allowing him to field outside the circle. The defending champions have lost all three of their matches […]
Durban: South Africa raced to a 220-run victory in the first test after Bangladesh’s collapse to 53 all out on the morning of the final day on Monday. Bangladesh lasted only 19 overs in its second innings and South Africa needed only two bowlers to roll the tourists out. They were both spinners, with left-armer […]
New Delhi: Former captain Anjum Chopra believes India were never among the title contenders at the just concluded Women’s World Cup and going forward, she wants the team to “emerge from a legacy of poor decision-making” to turn the corner. India’s underwhelming show at the ICC showpiece in New Zealand ended with a heartbreaking loss […]
New Dehli: Petrol and diesel prices were on Monday hiked by 40 paise a litre each, taking the total increase in rates in the last two weeks to ₹ 8.40 per litre. Petrol in Delhi will now cost ₹ 103.81 per litre as against ₹ 103.41 previously, while diesel rates have gone up from ₹ […]
Islamabad: Pakistan’s beleaguered Prime Minister Imran Khan bowled a yorker at his rivals on Sunday by getting the presidential nod for the dissolution of Parliament, a move dubbed as “unconstitutional” by the Opposition parties which approached the apex court to legally challenge the decision which has pushed the coup-prone country into further political and constitutional […]