Srinagar: Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) on Friday joined the People’s Alliance for Gupkar Declaration (PAGD), an amalgam of several parties in Jammu and Kashmir seeking restoration of the erstwhile state’s special status. Two Congress leaders participated in a meeting of the alliance at PDP president Mehbooba Mufti’s ‘Fairview’ residence at Gupkar here. Mufti is also […]
NEW DELHI: India’s Covid-19 tally rose to 87.28 lakh on Friday with a single-day increase of 44,879 cases, while the recoveries surged to 81,15,580, pushing the national recovery rate to 92.97 per cent, according to the Union Health Ministry. The death toll reached 1,28,668 after 547 more fatalities were reported in the country in a […]
Srinagar/Jammu: Over 350 nominations have been received for 43 seats going to polls in the first phase of the District Development Council (DDC) elections in Jammu and Kashmir voting for which will take place on November 28, officials said on Thursday. A total of 352 candidates have filed their nomination papers, they said. Of the […]
Karachi: The Pakistan Cricket Board has decided to review Misbah-ul-Haq’s performance only after the completion of next year’s World T20 Cup, giving him a full one-year to prove his credentials as a head coach. “The board has taken a policy decision that it would now sit down and review whether to retain Misbah or bring […]
Melbourne: Australia head coach Justin Langer has hailed India captain Virat Kohli for taking paternity leave during the tour Down Under but conceded that his absence will definitely affect the visitors during the much-anticipated Test series for the Border-Gavaskar Trophy. Kohli will return home after the opening Test, which ends on December 21. He has […]
NEW DELHI: Former India captain Rahul Dravid strongly believes that Indian Premier League (IPL) is “ready for expansion” in terms of number of teams without compromising on the quality as well as quantity of talent available in the country. There are talks that the 2021 IPL will be featuring nine teams instead of eight and […]
KOLKATA: With Asaduddin Owaisi’s AIMIM announcing that it would contest Bengal polls, having bagged five seats in neighbouring Bihar, political arithmetic, in all likelihood, is set to witness a major change as TMC’s sway over minority votes seems to be up for a stiff challenge. The Mamata Banerjee-led party, which had been the sole beneficiary […]
NEW DELHI: A high-level committee, headed by Union Home Minister Amit Shah, has approved the release of nearly Rs 4,382 crore to six states as central assistance for the natural calamities they faced this year. The funds will be released to West Bengal, Odisha, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Sikkim as assistance for the damage […]
BEIJING: China congratulated US President-elect Joe Biden on Friday nearly a week after he was declared winner of the American election. US-China ties have grown increasingly strained in recent years under the administration of incumbent Donald Trump, and relations are as icy as at any time since formal ties were established four decades ago. “We […]
WASHINGTON: Outgoing US President Donald Trump’s unsubstantiated claims of election fraud is one more step in delegitimising not just the incoming Biden administration, but democracy generally, his predecessor Barack Obama has said. “I’m more troubled by the fact that other Republican officials who clearly know better are going along with this, are humouring him in […]