Melbourne: Star Australian batsman Steve Smith is looking forward to a “physical, mental and emotional” battle when his team tours the sub-continent for eight Tests, including four against India, as part of the World Test Championship. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Australia’s only away Tests in the inaugural WTC cycle came during the Ashes in […]
Kolkata: One of India’s top swimmers, Sajan Prakash says shutting down all the “nonsense” around him and self belief and having a great support system were key to his dream comeback and he is aiming to compete in the finals of the upcoming Tokyo Games. The Keralaite was laid low by a career-threatening neck injury […]
New Delhi:Union Minister Jitendra Singh on Sunday said the delimitation exercise in Jammu and Kashmir is meant to facilitate judicious representation to all the sections and regions in the legislative assembly. He said the case of Jammu and Kashmir is somewhat different from other states or Union Territories, in the sense that there […]
Kabul: The Taliban’s march through northern Afghanistan gained momentum overnight with the capture of several districts from fleeing Afghan forces, several hundred of whom fled across the border into Tajikistan, officials said Sunday. More than 300 Afghan military personnel crossed from Afghanistan’s Badakhshan province as Taliban fighters advanced toward the border, Tajikistan’s State Committee for National […]
New Delhi: A day after the Congress demanded a JPC probe into the Rafale deal, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Sunday put out an online survey asking why the Modi government was not ready for it. Among the choices given by Gandhi to the question were guilt conscience, saving friends, JPC does not want […]
New Delhi,:India saw a single-day rise of 43,071 COVID-19 infections, which took the tally of cases to 3,05,45,433, while active cases have declined to 4,85,350, according to Union health ministry data updated on Sunday. The death toll has climbed to 4,02,005 with 955 more fatalities, the data updated at 8 am showed. […]
Srinagar: The Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee (JKPCC) on Saturday said the party will vigorously fight for restoring statehood with constitutional guarantees that was the milestone to a democratic process in the Union Territory. The JKPCC held a meeting of its senior party leaders and former legislators in the summer capital here to debate […]
Jammu: Security forces on Saturday arrested a Pakistani intruder along the Line of Control (LoC) in Poonch district, officials said here. The troops picked up a suspected movement along the LoC in the forward area of Gulpur and intercepted the intruder, they said. He was arrested and is being questioned, the officials said. The man […]
NEW DELHI: India saw a single-day rise of 44,111 new coronavirus infections, raising its tally to 3,05,02,362, while the death toll climbed to 4,01,050 with 738 new fatalities, the lowest in 86 days, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Saturday. The active cases — 4,95,533 — were recorded below five lakh after […]
Geneva: The world is in a very “dangerous period” of the COVID-19 pandemic compounded by more transmissible variants like Delta, which is continuing to evolve and mutate, World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has warned. He said in countries with low vaccination coverage, terrible scenes of hospitals overflowing are again becoming the norm. “Compounded […]