Raipur: A suspected Naxalite carrying a reward of Rs 5 lakh on his head was killed in an encounter with security forces in Chhattisgarh’s Dantewada district on Friday, a senior official said. The skirmish took place around 4 pm in a forest surrounding Etepal village under Katekalyan police station limits when a team of police’s […]
Phagwara: Farmers protesting over the non-payment of sugarcane dues for the past four days here blocked the second side of the Jalandhar-Ludhiana stretch of the national highway on Friday. Roads leading to Hoshiarpur, Nawanshahr and Nakodar were also blocked by parking tractors, leading to traffic snarls. The authorities had to divert traffic on alternative routes. […]
New Delhi: India’s exports rose by 2.14 per cent to USD 36.27 billion in July while the trade deficit almost tripled to USD 30 billion during the month due to over 70 per cent rise in crude oil imports, according to official data released on Friday. Imports shot up by 43.61 per cent to USD […]
New Delhi: The Supreme Court warned the state football associations of “exercising its authority” if ousted AIFF chief and NCP leader Praful Patel attends their meetings and interferes with the administration of justice. The top court said it will intervene if any attempt is made to sabotage the hosting of the 2022 FIFA-U-17 Women’s World […]
NEW DELHI: Senior opener KL Rahul will be leading the Indian team in the three-match ODI series in Zimbabwe after being declared fit by the BCCI medical team. Shikhar Dhawan, who was named the captain initially, will now be Rahul’s deputy. Rahul was recovering from a sports hernia surgery and was supposed to play the […]
DUBAI: Former West Indies white ball captain Kieron Pollard, current captain Nicholas Pooran and superstar Dwayne Bravo have signed for the cash-rich International League T20 (ILT20), which will be run by majority of IPL franchises under the aegis of Emirates Cricket Board. The ILT20’s inaugural edition is expected to start in January, 2023. “Having recently […]
NEW DELHI: Former India wicketkeeper-batter Saba Karim feels that the side has to decide between keeping either of Rishabh Pant or Dinesh Karthik in the playing eleven. With the Asia Cup starting from August 27 in the UAE, the tournament presents a chance for India to sort out their playing eleven composition ahead of Men’s […]
New Delhi:India added 16,561 new coronavirus cases taking the total tally of Covid cases to 4,42,23,557, while the active cases dipped to 1,23,535, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Friday. The death toll climbed to 5,26,928 with 49 fatalities which include 10 deaths reconciled by Kerala, the data updated at 8 am […]
New Delhi: Senior Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge on Thursday hit out at the Centre over the terrorist attack on an army camp in Rajouri district of Jammu and Kashmir, saying the government can’t go in hiding after such assaults and will have to answer. Two militants carried out a ‘fidayeen’ attack on an Army camp […]
Srinagar: National Conference leader Omar Abdullah on Thursday condoled the death of three soldiers in a militant attack on an army camp in Rajouri district. Three soldiers laid down their lives in repulsing the attack by two infiltrators who were also neutralised. “Very sorry to hear about the death in the line of duty of […]