KOLKATA: Indian cricket board chief Sourav Ganguly’s health condition is stable and he had a good sleep on Thursday night, while doctors are planning to carry out requisite medical examinations on him on Friday, a senior official of the hospital where he is admitted said. The former India captain underwent another angioplasty on the previous […]
New Delhi: The BJP on Friday lashed out at Opposition parties for boycotting President Ram Nath Kovind’s address to the joint sitting of Parliament, calling it “unfortunate” and noting that he as the constitutional head of the country is above political differences. BJP leader and Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad singled out the Congress, the […]
NEW DELHI: Former India mental conditioning coach Paddy Upton on Friday implored sports bodies across the globe, including the BCCI, to conduct extensive studies and prevent athletes from developing mental illnesses due to extended stay in bio-secure bubbles. Living in a bio-bubble has become the new normal for international athletes after sporting action resumed amid […]
NEW DELHI: Investment in Indian football has “increased tenfold” in the last decade, asserted All India Football Federation general secretary Kushal Das on Friday and reckoned it will be the country’s sport of choice in coming years. The top AIFF office-bearer also said one of its major goals in the near future is to develop […]
BANGKOK: Already out of contention for the knockouts, ace Indian shuttler Kidambi Srikanth’s campaign in the BWF World Tour Finals ended on a disappointing note as he went down 21-12 18-21 19-21 to Hong Kong’s NG Ka Long Angus here on Friday. The world number 14 Indian claimed the first game of his third and […]
Srinagar,: Cold wave conditions intensified in Kashmir on Friday as mercury plunged by two degrees in Srinagar, while the minimum temperature elsewhere in the valley stayed mostly 10 degrees below freezing point, officials said. Srinagar city recorded a low of minus 7.7 degrees Celsius plunging more than two degrees from minus 5.6 degrees Celsius the […]
New Delhi:With 18,855 fresh cases, India’s COVID-19 tally has gone up to 1,07,20,048, while the number of people who have recuperated from the disease has surged to 1,03,94,352, pushing the national recovery rate to 96.96 per cent, the health ministry said on Friday. The death toll due to the viral disease has climbed to 1,54,010 […]
United Nations:UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said it is “absolutely essential” for India and Pakistan to be able to come together and seriously discuss their problems, cautioning that any military confrontation would be a “disaster of unmitigated proportions” for both countries and the whole world. “Well, what I said in the statement…is unfortunately the same […]
United Nations:India’s vaccine production capacity is one of the best assets the world has today, UN chief Antonio Guterres has said as he applauded India for supplying COVID-19 doses to nations around the world to combat the catastrophic global health crisis. The UN Secretary-General also expressed hope that India will have all instruments necessary to […]
Ghaziabad: Hundreds of Bharatiya Kisan Union members stayed put on the Delhi-Meerut Expressway early on Friday, notwithstanding the Ghaziabad administration’s ultimatum to vacate the UP Gate protest site. A confrontation was building up at the UP Gate in Ghazipur even as frequent power cuts were witnessed in the evening at the protest site, where BKU […]