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India men to leave for Sri Lanka on Monday

ABHISHEK Nayar and Ryan ten Doeschate might join the support staff of newly-appointed head coach Gautam Gambhir during India's white ball tour to Sri Lanka, starting from July 27.

Shooter Prithviraj primed for Olympic debut

PRITHVIRAJ Tondaiman is at the peak of his powers.

HDFC BANK LOGS 35% INCREASE IN NET PROFIT

RETURNING to its once famed over 30% net income for as many as 34 quarters on the trot which ended with the pandemic era, the second-largest lender logged in a robust 35.33% jump in net profit at 16,174.75 crore for the June quarter even though the numbers are not comparable since the merger with its parent took effect only from July last year.

Jindal Group probe against sr. executive

A Jindal Group company has sent a senior executive, who is ns facing allegations of molestation by a female flight passenger, on administrative leave and a third-party probe has been started to probe the matter.

Kotak Bank profit up 81% to ₹6,250 cr

A stake sale in its general insurance subsidiary has boosted standalone net income of the fourth largest private sector lender, Kotak Mahindra Bank, by 81% to 6,250 crore, of which as much as 3,012 crore came in as the one-time income from deal with Zurich Insurance group that picked up 70% in the company during June quarter.

Flight operations back to normal after technical glitch

THE Ministry of Civil Aviation said on Saturday that flight operations in the country are back to normal a day after a global outage at Microsoft had a severe impact on the functioning of airlines and airports.

FLIP-FLOP DIPLOMACY IS A FAILING SCRIPT

IF Prime Minister Narendra Modi's recent visit to Russia was to signal India's equidistant position between Russia and the US, it did not work.

Iran can make fissile material for nuclear bomb in 1-2 weeks: US

IRAN is capable of producing fissile material for use in a nuclear weapon within \"one or two weeks,\" US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Friday.

Israel strikes Huthis in Yemen

ISRAEL said its warplanes hit \"military targets of the Huthi terrorist regime\" on Saturday, a day after a drone attack claimed by Yemeni rebels killed a civilian in Tel Aviv.

Ukraine leader Zelenskyy hints he's ready for talks with Putin to end war

Analysts point to stalemate on battlefield and prospect of Trump victory for shift in attitude

Defiant Biden vows to stay in race despite rising pressure from Dems

US President Joe Biden pledged to stay in the White House race Friday, defying a growing Democratic party revolt that raised speculation he could bow out as soon as this weekend.

12 dead, 30 missing after bridge collapses in China

A bridge collapse caused by torrential rains in northern China killed 12 people and left more than 30 missing, state media said Saturday.

Lucknow's outer areas to come under UPSCR

FOUR months after approving the draft for the amalgamation of half-a-dozen districts adjacent to state capital Lucknow as Uttar Pradesh State Capital Region (UPSCR), a notification to that effect was issued by UP Governor Anandiben Patel late on Friday evening.

Didi's 'Ma, Mati, Manush' touch to TMC July 21 rally

AS the Trinamool Congress is gearing up for its Martyrs' Day rally on Sunday, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said the day, to be observed as Ma Mati Manush Divas, would commemorate party's electoral victories in West Bengal.

Gujarat BJP chief and mantri – Patil's dual role to continue

THE BJP's CR Patil will continue in dual posts - as a Union Minister of Jal Shakti and the Gujarat party president.

BSF officer & jawan die of heatstroke during 'Harami Nallah' patrol

A Border Security Force (BSF) officer and a jawan died of heatstroke while on patrol at the 'Harami Nallah' creek area along the Indo-Pak border in Gujarat, said a BSF statement on Saturday.

Elephant carcass found buried at Assam refinery, case under Wildlife Act

A case under the Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972 was registered after the Numaligarh Refinery Limited (NRL) in Assam buried the carcass of a wild elephant without informing the forest department.

'White paper on demography soon'

Home Minister Amit Shah says BJP move is aimed at protecting tribal land rights in J'khand

Split over coal block, C'garh locals await justice

AUGUST 2 is scheduled for public hearing for Environment Clearance (EC) for mining in the Kete Extension open cast coal block in north Chhattisgarh's Hasdeo Arand region in Ambikapur district.

THE MAN OF ALL SEASONS AT FOREIGN OFFICE

THOSE who know Vikram Misri in the Ministry of External Affairs say the new top diplomat is progressive, forward-looking and well-versed with not only the internal exigencies of the current dispensation but also their diverse nuances expressed outside India's borders.

Kanwariyas ransack eatery in UP over onion in curry, Indore for toeing Yogi line

A DAY after the Uttar Pradesh government mandated display of nameplates on the eateries falling on the Kanwar yatra route, a group of Kanwariyas, heading to Haridwar with water collected from the Ganga, ransacked an eatery on finding onion slices in the food in Muzaffarnagar.

Gogoi: Oppn won't let NDA govt bulldoze Budget session

INDIA bloc will not allow the NDA government to bulldoze the Budget session of Parliament to be held from July 22 to August 12, said Gaurav Gogoi, Congress' Deputy Leader in Lok Sabha.

Amid UP rumblings, Yogi likely to meet Modi

CM may discuss with party leaders Lok Sabha poll debacle ahead of or after NITI Aayog meet in Delhi on July 27

Tibetan govt-in-exile plans to draw map of Tibet with original names of places

BUOYED by the US Senate and the Congress recently passing \"The Resolve Tibet Act,' which is now awaiting the Presidential assent, Central Tibetan Administration (CTA), the Tibetan government-in-exile, is now planning to draw a new map of Tibet with the \"original geographical and historical contours and names,\" said Sikyong Penpa Tsering in a telephonic conversation with this newspaper from Toronto.

BUILD NEW CITIES TO CREATE JOBS, BOOST GROWTH

\"We will initiate building 100 new cities; enabled with the latest in technology and infrastructure-adhering to concepts like sustainability, walk to work etc, and focused on specialised domains. BJP election manifesto, 2014

AP rape case suspect jumps off police jeep in escape bid, dies

IN a fresh twist in the case pertaining to the alleged rape and murder of an eight-year-old girl in Muchumarri of Nandyal district, a 35-year-old man, who was nabbed by the police for questioning, died while being shifted to a police station on Saturday.

2 workers killed in wall crash in Pollachi

TWO persons including a woman worker from West Bengal were killed in a wall collapse at a grove in Gengampalayam, near Pollachi, on Saturday afternoon.

High alert in AP as Godavari in spate, 4L cusecs being discharged into sea

Inflow may touch 10 lakh cusecs in 5 days; ban on movement of heavy vehicles on ghat roads

Inflow at 70k cusecs, flood alert in Hogenakkal

COLLECTOR K Santhi issued a flood alert along the banks of the Cauvery River at Hogenakkal after inflow reached 70,000 cusecs on Saturday.

DVAC seizes 6.35 lakh from K'giri sub-registrar

UNACCOUNTED ₹6.35 lakh in cash was seized by the sleuths of the Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption (DVAC) from Denkanikottai sub-registrar late night on Friday at Kelamangalam in Krishnagiri district.