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Pramod Bhagat, Sukant Kadam start 4-Nation Para-Badminton Int'l tournament with wins

Ace shuttler Pramod Bhagat and Sukant Kadam started their respective campaigns in the 4-Nation Para-Badminton International Tournament with comfortable wins.

World University Games: Elavenil Valarivan, Divyansh Panwar win silver in shooting

Olympians Elavenil Valarivan and Divyansh Singh Panwar won a silver medal in the 10m air rifle mixed team event while Commonwealth Games bronze medalist, Tejaswin Shankar, flopped in the high jump event at the FISU World University Games in Chengdu, on Thursday.

Australian Open: Sindhu, Srikanth, Rajawat storm into quarters

India's two-time Olympic medallist P.V. Sindhu, former World No. 1 Kidambi Srikanth and youngster Priyanshu Rajawat advanced into the quarterfinals of the Australian Open badminton championship while reigning National Champion Mithun Manjunath crashed out in the second round.

'Axar, Kuldeep are my preferred choices for spinners in T20Is'

India will be playing the T20I series against WI without Rohit, Kohli, Shami, Jadeja & Siraj

Waves grow up to 13 feet tall in California as Earth warms, research finds

Waves are getting bigger and surf at least 13 feet (about 4 meters) tall is becoming more common off California’s coast as the planet warms, according to innovative new research that tracked the increasing height from historical data gathered over the past 90 years.

Indian-American White House adviser on microchips steps down

Chaterji was appointed to the top post by President Joe Biden's administration in September last year for the implementation of the CHIPS and Science Act’s historic $50 billion investment in the semiconductor industry at NEC.

Texas Attorney Gen Ken Paxton to appear in court hearing for his securities fraud trial

Embattled Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, awaiting the start of a separate impeachment trial, is set to appear in a Houston courtroom Thursday to discuss his nearly decade-long delayed trial on securities fraud charges.

Protesters drape Sunak's home in black fabric over oil policy

Greenpeace protesters draped the private home of British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in black fabric on Thursday, stepping up their campaign against his government's policy on drilling for oil.

Trump is due to face a judge in DC over charges he tried to overturn the 2020 presidential election

Donald Trump is due in federal court Thursday to answer to charges that he sought to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, facing a judge near the U.S. Capitol building that his supporters stormed to try to block the peaceful transfer of power.

Russian shelling hits landmark church in Ukraine's Kherson

Ukraine’s emergency service said four of its workers were wounded

Pak silently approves security pact with US

Paving way to procurement of military hardware from Washington

Affordable housing sale declines as EMIs increase by 20 per cent

Affordable housing has witnessed a downfall in sales for the first half of 2023 shrinking to 20 per cent, a report by Anarock revealed.

India witnesses decline in gold demand by 7 per cent

World’s second largest consumer of gold – India – witnessed a decline in gold demand by seven percent to 158.1 tonnes during the AprilJune quarter, a report by World Gold Council (WGC) stated.

Govt launches Vivad se Vishwas II scheme to resolve pending contractual disputes

Government has launched the second phase of Vivad se Vishwas scheme to effectively settle the pending contractual disputes of government and government undertakings.

Rupee under pressure as stock markets see selloff

Indian benchmark indices felt the heat with major corrections seen of around 2.50 per cent in the last two days

Mediation law could be a boon for MSMEs

On Tuesday, the long-awaited Mediation Bill 2021 was finally enacted by Rajya Sabha. It is anticipated that mediation legislation will provide relief to industry, business, and families from the delays of courts in resolving disputes, or in the parlance of legal luminaries, litigation.

Empire of lies

Economic growth is not enough. Erosion of democracy is not enough. Expectations matter. Expectations management matters even more. And yet, see what happened in Chile, a country with fairly high economic growth and a stable democracy. In 2019, it witnessed an outburst of anger on the streets paving the way for the leftists to emerge victors. This can happen to other elected autocracies

Literature and arts connect humanity, preserve culture, says President Murmu

President Droupadi Murmu said today that literature and arts have conserved humanity and played a major role in connecting people.

Nuh violence: 44 FIRS & 139 arrests, Haryana Police action continues

The Haryana Police have filed 44 FIRs and arrested 139 culprits so far to investigate the communal riots that broke out in Nuh and Gurugram districts.

Blow to Jagan as AP HC stays EWS housing project in Amaravati

In a huge setback to YS Jagan Mohan Reddy-led YSRCP government the Andhra Pradesh High Court today issued interim orders staying the construction of houses for the economically weaker section in R5 zone of Amaravati Capital region.

'Procedure unknown to Constitution followed'

Supreme Court told on Day 2 of hearings on pleas opposing the abrogation of Article 370

Digha Jagannath temple to get ready by next year

The proposed Jagannath temple at Digha is likely to be completed within a year, said Firhad Hakim in the West Bengal Legislative Assembly today.

Mamata throws open cancer hospital on EM Bypass

Chief minister Mamata Banerjee inaugurated the 200-bed Medica Cancer Hospital on Thursday virtually from the state secretariat.

Mamata fears EVM hacking during Lok Sabha polls

Chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday brought serious charges against the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which is in power at the Centre when she said that they are trying to hack the electronic voting machines in their desperation to win the 2024 Lok Sabha election.

Chief minister to visit Jangalmahal next week

Mamata will take part in the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples

DPDP Bill will create punitive consequences for platforms exploiting Indians'data: MOS IT

The Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) bill is certainly a legislation that will create a deep lasting behavioural change and create high penalty punitive consequences for any or all platforms that misuse or exploit the personal data of any Indian citizen, Minister of State for Electronics and IT, Rajeev Chandrasekhar, said on Thursday after the proposed law was introduced in Parliament amid protests

'Kangaroo Care' for survival of premature babies

With the growing number of premature births, state health department, UNICEF and doctors have jointly have stressed on practising ‘Kangaroo Mother Care’ among the new mothers, fathers and family members for the growth and survival of such newborns.

Kejriwal govt will soon launch 'Business Blasters' for Delhi ITIs too: Atishi

Delhi Education Minister Atishi on Thursday announced that the city government will soon launch 'Business Blasters,' the Kejriwal government’s flagship student entrepreneurship programme for Delhi ITIs too, to nurture an entrepreneurial culture among ITI students.

School job case: Sujay Badra used bank accounts of relatives to divert ill-gotten money, claims ED

The Enforcement Directorate has claimed that Sujay Krishna Bhadra, a prime accused in the school recruitment case in West Bengal, used his daughter and son-in-law's bank account to divert the ill-gotten money.

Darjeeling resident writes letter to PM demanding Gorkhaland

At a time when Gorkha Jan Mukti Morcha (GJMM) chief Bimal Gurung is preparing to stage demonstration at Jantar Mantar in Delhi from tomorrow, demanding ‘permanent political solution’ for the Hill, Terai and Dooars region, a Kurseong resident, Ram Krishna Sharma has written a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi demanding a separate state of Gorkhaland.