Astana: Aman Sehrawat clinched India’s first gold medal at the ongoing Asian Wrestling Championships after beating Kyrgyzstan’s Almaz Smanbekov in the 57kg category here on Thursday. Sehrawat, who continued to impress on the senior circuit, beat Smanbekov 9-4 in the summit bout on the penultimate day of the championships. Sehrawat, who trains at Delhi’s famed […]
Rome,: The country’s exports rose by about 6 per cent to a “record” USD 447 billion during 2022-23 on account of healthy growth in the outbound shipments of sectors such as petroleum, pharma and chemicals and marine, Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal said on Thursday. The country’s imports also grew by 16.5 per cent […]
New Delhi: Covid cases in the country will rise for the next 10-12 days and then subside, said government sources today, asserting that there’s no need to worry over the latest uptick in infections across the country. The infection is now in the endemic stage, said health ministry sources even as the infections clocked a […]
Chandigarh: Four soldiers from an artillery unit have been killed in a shooting incident at the Bathinda Military Station in Punjab early on Wednesday morning. “A firing incident reported in the early hours of the morning around 4.35 am inside the Bathinda Military Station. Station Quick Reaction Teams were activated. Area was cordoned off and […]
New Delhi: The Supreme Court has ordered the sacking of a trial court judge in Karnataka, holding that a judicial officer cannot pronounce the concluding portion of a judgment in the open court without the entire text of the judgment having been prepared or dictated. The SC direction came on a plea filed by the […]
Jammu: A man allegedly killed his 20-year-old son and injured his wife and the couple’s minor daughter during a fight on Wednesday in Samba district, police said. Senior Superintendent of Police, Samba, Benam Tosh said they have arrested the accused, Kulbir Singh, and booked him for murder and attempt to murder. According to police, Kulbir […]
New Delhi: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and his deputy Tejashwi Yadav held a “historic” meeting with Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday, and decided to bring together as many opposition parties as possible to take on the BJP in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. Addressing a joint press conference after the […]
Jaipur: Before flagging off Vande Bharat Express train in Rajasthan via video conferencing, Prime Minister Narendra Modi here on Wednesday that India had inherited a fairly big railway network at the time of Independence, but the Railways was turned into ‘Rajnitik Akhara and Swarth” (an arena of politics and selfishness). “Political interest dominated the need […]
Paris: Trade ministers of India and France have held discussions related to the ongoing talks for a free trade agreement between India and the European Union, the commerce ministry said on Wednesday. Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal was here to attend India-France Business Summit and CEOs roundtable meet. He held bilateral meetings with several […]
New Delhi’A school in Delhi’s Defence Colony was evacuated Wednesday morning after an e-mail said there were bombs on the premises, police said. The bomb squad and other agencies are inspecting the school for any such explosive substances, they said. A senior police officer said a person named Brijesh of Indian School, BRT Road, informed […]