NEW DELHI: Atleast 27 per cent students do not have access to smartphones or laptops to attend online classes, while 28 per cent students and parents believe intermittent or lack of electricity is one of the major concerns hindering teaching-learning, according to a survey by the NCERT. The survey with over 34,000 partcipants, including students, […]
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has described Mahendra Singh Dhoni as the embodiment of a new India where family name does not make one”s destiny in a letter to the enigmatic former captain, who retired from international cricket last week. A thankful Dhoni shared the letter on his Twitter page on Thursday, his first […]
KARACHI: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) on Thursday appointed former skipper Mohammad Yousuf as the batting coach of its National High Performance Centre (NHPC) in Lahore. Yousuf, who has scored 7,530 Test and 9,720 ODI runs in a career spanning from 1998 to 2010, will head the list of coaches, which already boasts of Mushtaq […]
NEW DELHI: The Sports Ministry is planning a massive hike in the prize money for the National Sports Awards, a proposal which, once approved, will lead to Khel Ratna awardees getting Rs 25 lakh while leaving the Arjuna winners richer by Rs 15 lakh. Currently, the Khel Ratna comes with a cash prize of Rs […]
New Delhi: India and China on Thursday agreed to resolve outstanding issues in an “expeditious manner” and in accordance with the existing agreements and protocols, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said after the two sides held a fresh round of diplomatic talks on the border standoff in eastern Ladakh. MEA Spokesperson Anurag Srivastava said the […]
Srinagar: Four senior National Conference leaders on Thursday attended a meeting convened by party president Farooq Abdullah at his residence, days after the Jammu and Kashmir administration denied in the High Court the party’s claim that many of its leaders were in illegal confinement at their homes. NC general secretary Ali Mohammad Sagar and former […]
New Delhi: The Supreme Court Thursday granted two days to activist-lawyer Prashant Bhushan, who has been held guilty of contempt, to reconsider his ‘defiant statement’ refusing to apologise for his contemptuous tweets against the judiciary. Bhushan told a bench headed by Justice Arun Mishra that he would consult his lawyers and think over the apex […]
New Delhi: Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram on Thursday accused the BJP-led government at the Centre of shielding the PM CARES Fund from any kind of scrutiny. Chidambaram raised several questions on the setting up of the fund. “It is abundantly clear that the BJP government is making desperate efforts to shield PM-CARES Fund from any […]
Wilmington:The Democrats’ historic boundary breakers joined forces Wednesday night at the party’s national convention, pleading for Joe Biden’s diverse coalition to put voting ahead of everything else this fall to save the nation from the chaotic leadership of President Donald Trump. Their overriding message: Don’t just complain about Trump; vote because your lives and democracy […]
Ranaghat (WB): A youth has been arrested for allegedly tearing the national flag in an inebriated state in West Bengal’s Nadia district, police said on Thursday. The incident occurred in School Para locality in Dhantala police station area on Wednesday, they said. The youth, Chanchal Biswas, was arrested after locals made a video of the […]