NEW DELHI: Veteran Indian wicketkeeper Wriddhiman Saha, who has alleged that he was intimidated by a journalist for not giving an interview, on Saturday said he has revealed all the details to a BCCI committee probing the matter. A three-member committee on Saturday met Saha here on Saturday to probe into the 37-year-old’s allegations against […]
NEW DELHI: The Indian mixed doubles pair of Manav Thakkar and Archana Kamath clinched a silver medal after losing their final match, as did the women’s doubles duo of Sutirtha Mukherjee and Ayhika Mukherjee at the WTT Contender tournament in Muscat on Saturday. The Thakkar-Kamath duo lost 3-11, 3-11, 6-11 to the Chinese pair of […]
Islamabad: The global money laundering and terrorist financing watchdog FATF has retained Pakistan on its terrorism financing “grey list” for failing to meet some of its targets under the additional criteria. Pakistan has been on the grey list of the Paris-based Financial Action Task Force (FATF) since June 2018 for failing to check […]
Beijing: China on Saturday hiked its annual defence budget by 7.1 per cent to USD 230 billion from last year’s USD 209 billion. The Chinese government has proposed the defence budget for the fiscal year 2022 at 1.45 trillion yuan (USD 230 billion), a 7.1 per cent year on year increase, state-run China Daily […]
Washington: Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is an attack on not only this country, but also on the security of Europe, US President Joe Biden has said. In an interaction with reporters during a bilateral meeting with President Niinistö of Finland on Friday, Biden said the two nations have been in regular touch for some […]
Geneva/United Nations: India on Friday abstained in the UN Human Rights Council on a vote to urgently establish an independent international commission of inquiry to investigate alleged human rights violations and related crimes following Russia’s military operation in Ukraine. The 47-member Council voted on a draft resolution on the ‘Situation of human rights in Ukraine […]
Mumbai: Two Air India Express flights on Friday brought 369 Indian nationals who were stranded in war-hit Ukraine to Mumbai from Romania’s capital Bucharest and the Hungarian capital Budapest, the airline’s spokesperson said. So far, a total of 951 Indians stuck in Ukraine, most of them students, have landed in Mumbai by five evacuation flights […]
New Delhi: Expressing concern about the future of medical students who have returned home from Ukraine, the Indian Medical Association has recommended to Prime Minister Narendra Modi that they be adjusted in India medical schools as a one-time measure. In a letter to Modi on Friday, the IMA stated that such students should be permitted […]
Kyiv: No radiation was released from a Russian attack at Europe’s biggest nuclear power plant in Ukraine and firefighters have extinguished a blaze at the facility, U.N. and Ukrainian officials said Friday, as Russian forces pressed their campaign to cripple the country despite global condemnation. The International Atomic Energy Agency’s director-general, Rafael Mariano Grossi, said […]
NEW DELHI: The Centre Friday opposed before the Delhi High Court fully re-opening the Nizamuddin Markaz, where the Tablighi Jamaat congregation was held in March 2020 amid the COVID19 pandemic and has remained shut since then, stating that a few people may be allowed to offer prayers on the upcoming religious occasions. Government counsel Rajat […]