Lakshya Sen beats Ng Tze Yong to enter India Open final

NEW DELHI: World championship bronze medallist Lakshya Sen entered his maiden World Tour Super 500 summit clash on Saturday with a come-from-behind win over Malaysia’s Ng Tze Yong at the Yonex-Sunrise India Open. Third seed Sen, ranked 17 in the world, will face reigning world champion Loh Kean Yew of Singapore in the summit clash […]

BJP fields Yogi from Gorakhpur; CM says party will return to power in UP with overwhelming majority

Gorakhpur (UP),: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Saturday thanked the BJP leadership for choosing him as the candidate from the Gorakhpur seat in the assembly election and exuded confidence that the party would return to power in the state with an “overwhelming majority”. “I express thanks to the prime minister, national president and BJP […]

Kohli steps down as Test captain

Kohli steps down as Test captain

Cape Town: Virat Kohli on Saturday dropped a bombshell by quitting Test captaincy following the unexpected series defeat against South Africa. Kohli was appointed Test captain back in 2014 when M S Dhoni stepped down in the middle of the series against Australia. “Every thing has to come to a halt at some stage and for […]

Minimum temp settles below freezing point in Kashmir

Srinagar,: The intense cold wave conditions continued in Kashmir as the minimum temperature settled several degrees below freezing point, officials said here on Saturday.       The night temperature was several degrees below the normal for this part of the season.   The mercury in Srinagar, the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir, settled […]

Ladakh sees 124 fresh cases

Ladakh sees 124 fresh cases

Leh: Ladakh reported 124 fresh cases of COVID-19, taking the active number of cases to 598, while the total tally in the union territory has gone up to 22,773, officials said on Friday. Twenty-eight patients were discharged from hospitals in Ladakh, taking the total number of recoveries to 22,153, they said. Of the 124 fresh […]

Political, religious groups criticise J&K administration’s order on ‘surya namaskar’

Political, religious groups criticise J&K administration’s order on ‘surya namaskar’

Srinagar: Various political and religious groups on Friday criticised the Jammu and Kashmir administration’s order directing college heads in the union territory to organise large-scale ‘surya namaskar’ on the occasion of Makar Sankranti. The event was to be held online on Friday as part of the Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav celebrations and officials of the […]