Padikkal Likely To Miss RCB's Opener

Bengaluru: Royal Challengers Bangalore may have to rework their strategies for the first couple of matches of the IPL that begins with their season-opener against Mumbai Indians on April 9 in Chennai.

Bad News For Beijing

America comes roaring back. President Biden has picked up the gauntlet China threw down

CRPF, C'garh Police Had Planned Joint Operation

New Delhi:The deaths of 22 security personnel in Chhattisgarh came in a planned offensive launched jointly by the CRPF and Chhattisgarh police and also resulted in casualties among the Maoists.

Didi Accuses Modi Of Violating Poll Model Code Of Conduct

‘Do You Think You Are God Or Superhuman?’

Was At Party Over Land Issue: Bizman

Statement Manipulated, Says Sandeep

Polls Help Chopper Charters Fly Out Of Covid Mire

Mumbai: The assembly elections have provided a booster shot to the Indian helicopter charter industry, which was reeling under the impact of the Covid pandemic.

Rahul May Not Be Able To Skip Bengal For Long

May Have To Canvass There After April 6

Repeat Of 2020: Covid Patients Rush To Govt Hospitals In Last Stages, Die

Hyderabad: In what appears to be a repeat of 2020 — when the first wave of Covid-19 started peaking — several critically ill patients are seen rushing to government hospitals, in the eleventh hour. Result: government facilities are reporting more casualties, with some patients dying in the ambulances while in transit.

UK Reports 7 Clot Deaths After Astra Shot, But Says Jab Safe

Regulator Says Over 18m Doses Administered, Risk ‘Very Small’

Review Oil Import Contracts With Saudi: India To Refiners

‘Use Bargaining Power To Get Better Terms’

Shah Vows Adivasi Status For 11 Gorkha Communities

Kalchini/Sitalkuchi: The BJP government is working on granting adivasi status to 11 Gorkha communities, Union home minister Amit Shah announced on Friday during his north Bengal tour.

Lockdown Cut Health Risk Index In Hyd By 17%, Cancer Risk By 36%: Researchers

Hyderabad: The Covid-19 lockdown helped in the reduction of risk for various diseases, including cancers, for people living in Hyderabad.

MHA Flags Punjab On ‘Bonded Labourers'

Bid To Defame State, Torpedo Farm Stir: Ministers

BDL-Manufactured Akash Missiles Flagged Off For Delivery

Hyderabad: Akash missiles, manufactured by city-based Bharat Dynamics Limited (BDL), were flagged off on Friday by Lt Gen AP Singh, director general & senior colonel commandant, Army Air Defence for delivery to the Indian Army.

UIDAI Must Explain Aadhar Breach: HC

Chennai: The Madras high court on Thursday refused to accept the claim of the BJP that mobile numbers of voters linked to Aadhaar which were used for election campaigning were collected by their karyakartas (party workers) going door-to-door in Puducherry.

Germany Stunned

France, England Grind Out Wins

Amid Covid Surge, Health Centre Shut Over Bill Dues

Hyderabad: At a time when the state is scrambling to control the spread of Covid-19, the Bible House Urban Primary Health Care Center (UPHC) in Kavadiguda — which is also a Covid-19 testing facility — was asked to down its shutters. This, after authorities from the state health department allegedly failed to pay the property rent and other utility bills for almost a year.

Art's Meant To Ease Suffering: Sacha Jafri

Melbourne: Twenty hours a day for seven months went into painting ‘The Journey of Humanity’, the largest painting on canvas and the second most expensive by a living artist. Sacha Jafri, the British artist with Indian origins, is donating the $62 million he got for the 70 pieces of his painting — snapped up by French cryptocurrency billionaire Andre Abdoune last month — to Dubai Cares, Unesco, Unicef and the Global Gift Foundation. Because art, he said, is meant to ease suffering.

Centre Asks States To Step Up Inoculation, Stem Case Surge

Pace Of Vax Drive Moderate In Most States

Why Roses Smell Like Crap Post-Covid

Samantha LaLiberte, a social worker in Nashville, Tennessee, thought she had made a full recovery from Covid-19. But in mid-November, about seven months after she’d been sick, a takeout order smelled so foul that she threw it away. When she stopped by the house of a friend who was cooking, she ran outside and vomited on the front lawn.

RCB Chant Maxwell Mantra

Hesson Says Explosive Aussie Batsman Will Address Team’s Middle-Order Woes; Backs Kohli’s Decision To Open

HC Slams TN Netas For ‘Freebie Culture'

Chennai: Slamming parties for encouraging ‘freebie culture’ in the state, the Madras high court on Wednesday said it has caused the people of Tamil Nadu to become lazy. Locals refuse to work resulting in migrant workers taking over jobs, the court said.

ASI Hit By Cab Driver Dies, Family Donates His Organs

Hyderabad: Four days after he suffered grievous injuries when a cab driver knocked him down while he was probing a case of drunken driving, assistant subinspector Mahipal Reddy of KPHB police station succumbed to his injuries in the early hours of Wednesday. He was 54.

Bengal Elections Will Be Determined Not By Usual ‘Poll Issues' ... But By Voter Fear Of Not Choosing The Winning Side

Fear – not development, not voting for ‘one’s own’, not a desire for change or status quo, not wanting to root out corruption or keep out communalisation – will decide who wins Bengal on May 2.

India Set To Clear Project To Build Nuke Submarines

New Delhi: India is set to clear a mega indigenous project to build three nuclear-powered attack submarines, which will be followed by approval for another three at a later stage, as part of the long-term plan to counter China’s expanding naval footprint in the Indian Ocean Region (IOR) and beyond.

‘Outsider' Shah Questions Silence Of ‘Bengal's Daughter' On Woman's Death

Nandigram: The big fight in Nandigram finally turned into a battle between Union home minister Amit Shah and CM Mamata Banerjee on the last day of the high-octane campaign on Tuesday when “outsider” Shah threw a direct challenge to “Banglar meye” over her silence on the death of another “Banglar meye”, octogenarian Shova Majumdar.

Borrowing Within Limits, Says AP Govt

‘Compelled To Borrow Due To Covid Losses’

Cops Raise Awareness On Mask Need

Hyderabad: State police took up awareness campaign across Telangana on Tuesday advising people to mask up or face a penalty.

Covid Testing Went Up 38% Over The Last Two Weeks

As States Battled Surge In Infections

Waze Case: NIA fInds Aurangabad Car Registeration Plate In Mithi River

Aurangabad/Mumbai: Vehicles and number plates appear to be inextricably intertwined with the case of explosives found near industrialist Mukesh Ambani’s residence and the subsequent murder of businessman Mansukh Hiran.