NEW DELHI: “You will always be my captain,” said India skipper Virat Kohli to Mahendra Singh Dhoni on Sunday, expressing gratitude for the “friendship and belief” that he got from the talismanic senior. In a nearly minute-long video posted on the BCCI’s official Twitter handle, Kohli said Dhoni’s retirement is that rare moment in his […]
NEW DELHI: All matches of the seventh edition of Indian Super League will be held in three venues in Goa, likely in November, amid strict health and safety measures to deal with the COVID-19 threat, the organisers said on Sunday. In order to minimise travelling by players and officials amid the pandemic, the ISL organisers […]
New Delhi: The Centre will assist the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir to establish public grievance portal in each of its 20 districts to ensure timely redressal of governance-related complaints, Union Minister of State for Personnel Jitendra Singh said on Sunday. In a significant drive to strengthen the ongoing good governance initiatives there, Singh […]
New Delhi:Former cricketer and UP cabinet minister Chetan Chauhan died on Sunday due to COVID-19 related complications, his brother Pushpendra Chauhan said. Chauhan, who played 40 Tests for India, was 73. He is survived by his wife and son Vinayak, who is scheduled to arrive from Melbourne later in the day. Due to kidney […]
Jammu: The Jammu and Kashmir Police on Sunday took cognizance of a communally sensitive video doing rounds on social media and assured strict legal action against the accused persons. The police, however, refrained from sharing details of the video. “An incident involving video of communally sensitive nature, has gone viral on social media which seems […]
New Delhi: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh has approved the proposal to expand the National Cadet Corps (NCC) in 173 border and coastal districts from where one lakh new cadets will be inducted, an official statement said on Sunday. The expansion of the NCC was announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his Independence Day speech […]
Dubai:Telephone service between the United Arab Emirates and Israel has begun as the two countries open diplomatic ties. Associated Press journalists in Jerusalem and Dubai were able to call each other from both landline and cellular phones on Sunday. Officials in Israel and the UAE did not immediately acknowledge the lines had begun working. Israel […]
Katra (J&K): Khushvinder Singh is part of a 12-member group from Jammu who reached Katra before dawn to pay obeisance at the famous Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine atop Trikuta hills in Reasi district of Jammu and Kashmir. The shrine along with other religious places across the Union Territory reopened for devotees on Sunday morning after […]
New Delhi: india’s COVID-19 tally increased to25,89,682 with a single-day spike of63,490 cases, while the total number of recoveries rose to 18,62,258 pushing the recovery rate to 71.91 per cent on Sunday,according to the Union Health Ministry data. The death toll due to coronavirus infection Climbed to 49,980 with 944 people succumbing to the disease […]
New York: President Donald Trump’s younger brother, Robert Trump, a businessman known for an even keel that seemed almost incompatible with the family name, died Saturday night after being hospitalised in New York, the president said in a statement. He was 71. The president visited his brother at a New York City hospital on Friday […]