K L Rahul out with sprained left wrist

Sydney: India batsman K L Rahul was on Tuesday ruled out of the remaining two Tests against Australia after sustaining a wrist injury during training in Melbourne, the BCCI said. Rahul had not played any match of the ongoing series in which the third Test starts on Thursday here. “KL Rahul sprained his left wrist […]

COVID-19: India records lowest daily cases in over six months

COVID-19: India records lowest daily cases in over six months

NEW DELHI: India recorded 16,375 new cases of coronavirus, the lowest in over six months, taking the country’s COVID-19 caseload to1,03,56,844, accordingto the Union Health Ministry data updated on Tuesday The death toll increased to1,49,850with 201new fatalities, the data updated at 8 am showed The number of people who have recuperated from the disease surged […]

Amid bird flu scare, alert sounded in J-K

Amid bird flu scare, alert sounded in J-K

Jammu: As neighbouring Himachal Pradesh reported cases of bird flu, Jammu and Kashmir has sounded an alert and started collecting samples to check the health of the winged guests flocking the Union territory during winters, officials said. The joint teams of Animal Husbandry and Wildlife departments on Tuesday visited Gharana wetland in the outskirts of […]

Johnson cancels India trip due to COVID situation in UK

Johnson cancels India trip due to COVID situation in UK

New Delhi:  UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who was invited as the chief guest for the Republic Day parade, has cancelled his visit to India due to the serious coronavirus situation in his country. Officials said Johnson called up Prime Minister Narendra Modi and regretted that he would have to cancel his visit to India […]

India records lowest daily cases in over six months

India records lowest daily cases in over six months

New Delhi: India recorded 16,375 new cases of coronavirus, the lowest in over six months, taking the country’s COVID-19 caseload to 1,03,56,844, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Tuesday. The death toll increased to 1,49,850 with 201 new fatalities, the data updated at 8 am showed The number of people who have recuperated […]

Saudi Arabia to lift Qatar embargo, easing the Gulf crisis

Dubai:Saudi Arabia will open its airspace and land border to Qatar in the first step toward ending a years-long diplomatic crisis that deeply divided US defense partners, frayed societal ties and tore apart a traditionally clubby alliance of Gulf states, officials said late Monday. Qatar’s only land border has been mostly closed since mid-2017, when […]

Biden blasts Trump for ‘whining and complaining’ about election results

Biden blasts Trump for ‘whining and complaining’ about election results

Washington: US President-elect Joe Biden has blasted Donald Trump for seeking to overturn the November 3 election results, saying the outgoing president spends most of his time “whining and complaining” rather than doing “the work” of his office. Trump is yet to concede the elections and has filed several lawsuits challenging the November 3 poll […]

27,944 cases of departmental proceedings pending against policemen in India till Jan 1, 2020: BPR&

27,944 cases of departmental proceedings pending against policemen in India till Jan 1, 2020: BPR&

NEW DELHI: A total of 27,944 cases of departmental proceedings are pending against police personnel in the country till January 1, 2020, with one-third of these pendencies in Bihar, Telangana and Jammu and Kashmir, according to official data. In 2019, there were 53,675 such cases pending against the police personnel, which include the ones initiated […]

Centre taking up COVID-19 vaccination in a big way: Harsh Vardhan

CHENNAI: Union Health and Family Welfare Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan on Monday said the Centre has initiated a series of actions to prevent the spread of coronavirus and that it is now taking up the vaccination drive in a big way. Vardhan’s remarks came a day after India’s drug regulator approved the restricted use of […]

India vs Australia: No request from BCCI to move fourth

Test out of Brisbane, says Cricket Australia SYDNEY: Cricket Australia’s (CA) chief executive Nick Hockley on Monday dismissed reports that the Indian team is reluctant to play the fourth Test in Brisbane because of stricter quarantine rules there. Hockley said the Indian cricket board was “fully across (and) supportive” of quarantine requirements in Queensland. “We […]