Kolkata, June 19 (IANS) India have so far looked the best team followed by England and Australia in the World Cup 2019, said former India captain Sourav Ganguly on Wednesday, adding that he is not surprised with opener Shikhar Dhawan being ruled out for the remainder of the showpiece event.[Read More…]
Birmingham, June 19 (IANS) South Africa opener Hashim Amla added another feather to his illustrious cap by becoming the second fastest batsman after Virat Kohli to score 8,000 ODI runs on Wednesday. The 36-year-old batsman achieved the feat during South Africa’s World Cup group stage contest against New Zealand at[Read More…]
Kolkata, June 19 (IANS) Sourav Ganguly’s mother Nirupa Roy has been hospitalised because of a heart ailment, the former India skipper said on Wednesday. “She’s under observation. I’m not sure of her release yet,” Ganguly told reporters. Ganguly returned from England to attend to his mother who is a septuagenarian.[Read More…]
New Delhi, June 19 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Wednesday issued notice to the Maharashtra government on a plea challenging the Bombay High Court order, which declined to entertain a plea against 16 per cent quota for Marathas in connection with postgraduate medical and dental courses. A vacation bench comprising[Read More…]
Chandigarh, June 19 (IANS) Conceding to popular request, the Punjab government on Wednesday announced the renaming of a street after the two-year-old boy who was pulled out dead last week from a 150-foot-deep abandoned borewell in Sangrur district following six days of being trapped. As a special case, Chief Minister[Read More…]
Amaravati, June 19 (IANS) A day after an YSR Congress legislator Alla Ramakrishna Reddy said former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister and TDP President N. Chandrababu Naidu would be evicted from his river-side residence, TDP leader P. Keshav alleged vindictive politics by the new government. Keshav said since the matter was[Read More…]
New Delhi, June 19 (IANS) With the availability of attractive data plans and higher video consumption among young users, monthly data usage per smartphone in India rose to 9.8 gigabytes (GB) at the end of 2018, the highest in the world, according to a Ericsson report on Wednesday. Monthly data[Read More…]
Mumbai (Maharashtra), June 19 (IANS) The Mumbai Police and Forest officials, in a joint operation, arrested two persons while they were trying to sell extremely rare Ambergris or Sperm Whale ‘vomit’ worth over Rs 17 million in the grey market, officials said on Wednesday. Rahul Tupare, 53 from Nagpur and[Read More…]
London, June 19 (IANS) Afghanistan coach Phil Simmons on Wednesday indicated in a tweet that he will reveal chief selector Dawlat Ahmadzai’s role in the removal of Asghar Afghan as skipper in the 11th hour and the effect of his actions on the team’s preparation for the World Cup in[Read More…]
Bhubaneswar, June 19 (IANS) Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Wednesday announced an ex-gratia of Rs 25 lakh for the next of kin of Army jawan Naik Ajit Kumar Sahoo, who was martyred in Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday. The Chief Minister also expressed grief over the death of the[Read More…]
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Jaipur, June 19 (IANS) The Congress central leadership seems to be taking control to set its house in order in Rajasthan as infighting and factional feuds have become everyday affairs at the Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) headquarters in the state. On Sunday, the All India Congress Committee served a show[Read More…]
Shimla, June 19 (IANS) The Himachal Pradesh government on Wednesday decided to provide Rs 7,500 per month financial assistance and counseling for six months to children victims of sexual violence and abuse. In a move to restore the self-confidence and dignity of victims of child abuse, the Cabinet, presided over[Read More…]
Beijing, June 19 (IANS) Aiming to better house its increasing headcount, Chinese handset maker Xiaomi is reportedly going to shift to its new headquarters in Beijing. Some of Xiaomi’s 20,000-plus employees will be moving to the 8 buildings that make up its new headquarters called ‘Xiaomi Science and Technology Park’.[Read More…]
Kolkata, June 19 (IANS) Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) seized 56 tonnes of black pepper of foreign origin worth Rs 3.92 crore in West Bengal as a part of the crackdown on attempts by organised syndicates to smuggle the Nepal-bound goods into India, an official said on Wednesday. “Two containers[Read More…]
Southampton, June 19 (IANS) India opener Shikhar Dhawan has been ruled out of the 2019 edition of the World Cup as he is not in a position to recover in time for the remaining games of the showpiece event. While IANS had broken the news, team manager Sunil Subramaniam addressed[Read More…]
San Francisco, June 19 (IANS) Just after losing air-shipping contract of global courier company FedEx amid competition, e-commerce major Amazon has added 15 cargo aircraft to its fleet in the making, aiming to reach 70 planes by 2021. “At the International Paris Air Show, the company announced a partnership with[Read More…]
By Subhash Narayan New Delhi, June 19 (IANS) Hydrocarbon exploration companies may be given more time to commercialise their finds with the government looking at a new policy to augment the country’s flagging domestic oil and gas production, official sources said on Wednesday. They said that a proposal is being[Read More…]
Nainital, June 19 (IANS) From fake websites to the alleged forged booking of guest houses, Jim Corbett National Park in Uttarakhand’s Ramnagar seems to be mired in a long tale of corruption and controversies. Several incidents have come to light about the blatant misuse of ‘official positions’ to seek favours[Read More…]
By Rohit Mundayur New Delhi, June 19 (IANS) Neeraj Goyat was 12 and yet to consider boxing as a career option when Amir Khan won a silver medal in the lightweight division of the 2004 Olympics in Athens. Fast forward 15 years and Goyat is set to face the British-Pakistani[Read More…]
By Gaurav Sharma Beijing, June 19 (IANS) China has said it is opposed to the “politicization” of Huawei’s likely participation in the 5G network trial in India after New Delhi said it has security concerns in letting the Chinese company take part in the much-awaited exercise. China’s Foreign Ministry told[Read More…]
Mumbai, June 19 (IANS) As a step to expand its India outreach, Sony Pictures International Productions has joined hands with Indian filmmakers Umesh Shukla, Sabbir Khan, Sajid Samji and Sashi Kiran Tikka, to create diverse content. It has also ramped up local productions in India by collaborating with filmmakers for[Read More…]
Geneva, June 19 (IANS) There is credible evidence that Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and other high-level officials are individually liable for the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a UN special rapporteur said in a report on Wednesday. A report by UN extrajudicial executions investigator Agnes Callamard said[Read More…]
Mumbai, June 19 (IANS) Global music company Sony Music has joined hands with digital media company Desi Hip Hop Inc to give a push to hip hop culture in India. Through this partnership, Sony Music and Desi Hip Hop (DHH) will work together to discover, develop and market Indian and[Read More…]
New Delhi, June 19 (IANS) Three Indian universities — IIT Bombay, IIT Delhi and Indian Institute of Science Bangalore (IISc) — have found a place among the top 200 in the 2020 Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University Rankings, which were declared in London on Wednesday. Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)[Read More…]
