New Delhi: Delhi recorded an air quality index (AQI) of 265 on Sunday, which was lowest for the day before Diwali in seven years, the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) data showed. Diwali will be celebrated across the country on Monday. An AQI between zero and 50 is considered “good”, 51 and 100 “satisfactory”, 101 […]
New Delhi: Riding on the anti-incumbency factor and raising issues like price rise and unemployment, the Congress in Himachal Pradesh is banking on the legacy of Virbhadra Singh to stage a comeback in the hill state. The grand old party is, however, faced with internal rumblings and defections of some of its old timers in […]
Gurez: KrishiVigyan Kendra (KVK) Gurez organizes an awareness camp on “Natural Farming under Jan Abhiyaan”at Izmarg Station of SKUAST-Kashmir. More than 100 tribal farmers, farm women and rural youth from the villages like Kanzalwan, Nayal, Izmarg, Jalindora, Chuntiwari, Banjran and Dangan of block Bagtour participated in the event. The participants were sensitised about the significance […]
BANDIPORA: With the motive to generate employment opportunities for the youth, the District Industries Centre (DIC), Bandipora today organized an awareness camp at block Aloosa to sensitize the people about the flagship programmes like Prime Minister’s Employment Generation Programme (PMEGP) and other schemes in industrial and service sectors. On the occasion, Project Manager DIC, Mehraj […]
Bengaluru: London-based satellite communications company Network Access Associated Limited (OneWeb) on Sunday said its partnership with ISRO and the space agency’s commercial arm NSIL demonstrated its commitment to provide connectivity across the length and breadth of India by 2023. From Ladakh to Kanyakumari and Gujarat to Arunachal Pradesh, OneWeb will bring secured solutions not only […]
Panaji: Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant on Sunday stressed on the need for more farmer leaders so that government welfare schemes reach cultivators in villages. He was speaking after inaugurating the Farmer Producer Company Limited in North Goa, which would act as a bridge between farmers and the market. Sawant said many of the central […]
Melbourne: Virat Kohli owned the grand stage with a knock for the ages as he powered India to an epic four-wicket over Pakistan in a heart-stopping T20 World Cup game, that unfolded at the MCG ‘amphitheatre’ which was packed with 90,000 boisterous fans, here on Sunday. King Kohli, as his fans call him, conjured up […]
Melbourne: Virat Kohli was lost for words after leaving the cricket world speechless with his cricket here on Sunday. In his own words, King Kohli had no idea how he had engineering India’s epic win over arch-rivals Pakistan in their blockbuster T20 World Cup face-off. When all seemed lost at 31 for four in a […]
Margao: Colombia defeated a nine-member Tanzania 3-0 in the quarterfinals of the FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium here on Saturday. With the win, the South Americans entered the semifinals of the showpiece following four successive group stage exits, including in 2018. Colombia made the first breakthrough within three minutes , […]
Several political parties, including the PDP and the National Conference (NC), on Wednesday had called for a probe into the killing of an arrested “hybrid” Lashkar-e-Toiba militant during an anti-militancy operation in Shopian district. Imran Bashir Ganaie was arrested for his alleged involvement in the killing of two labourers at Harmain in district in the […]