New Delhi: The India U-17 men’s team will take on SSV Reutlingen U-16 side in their second training game in Reutlingen, Germany on Saturday as part of its preparation for next month’s AFC U-17 Asian Cup in Thailand. It’s been three days since the India U-17s landed in Germany after playing a series of training matches…
New Delhi: With the incredible talent that Prithvi Shaw posses, he should be dominating international cricket, feels assistant coach Shane Watson, who added that the opener’s abject failure has been the biggest let down for Delhi Capitals this IPL season. Ahead of this edition’s IPL, head coach Ricky Pointing had said this would be Shaw’s breakthrough…
Mumbai: Rising for the second consecutive week, India’s forex kitty jumped USD 3.553 billion to USD 599.529 billion for the week ended May 12, the RBI said on Friday. The overall reserves had jumped by USD 7.196 billion to USD 595.976 billion for the previous reporting week. It can be noted that in October 2021, the…
New Delhi: The Common University Entrance Test-Undergraduate (CUET-UG) has been deferred to May 29 in Manipur in view of the law and order situation, the National Testing Agency (NTA) said on Friday. The second edition of the undergraduate entrance exam is set to begin across the country on May 21. While it was earlier scheduled to…
Bankura (WB): TMC leader Abhishek Banerjee, who has been called by the CBI to appear at its Kolkata office on Saturday as part of its probe into the school jobs scam, dared the central agency to arrest him if it has any proof of corruption or misconduct against him. Banerjee accused the BJP of “using”…
Mumbai: The Bombay High Court on Friday directed the CBI not to take any “coercive action”, such as arrest, against former NCB zonal director Sameer Wankhede who is accused of demanding Rs 25 crore bribe from superstar Shah Rukh Khan for not implicating his son Aryan in the Cordelia cruise `drug bust’ case. Wankhede, an…
New Delhi: President Droupadi Murmu on Friday appointed four additional judges to the Madras High Court, including P Dhanabal, the Registrar General of the High Court. “…the President is pleased to appoint S/Shri (i) Ramasamy Sakthivel, (ii) P. Dhanabal, (iii) Chinnasamy Kumarappan and (iv) Kandasamy Rajasekar, Judicial Officers as Additional Judges of the Madras High…
New Delhi: Senior BJP leader Kiren Rijiju on Friday assumed charge as Earth Sciences Minister and dismissed suggestions that he was removed as minister of law and justice due to some wrongdoing. Rijiju refused to answer questions about his previous ministry contending that these were no longer relevant and that he looked forward to serving…
New Delhi: With a Supreme Court-appointed expert committee stating that it cannot conclude any regulatory failure around Adani Group’s stock rallies, the Congress on Friday said the conclusions were “predictable” but to spin the report as having given a clean chit to the conglomerate is “wholly bogus”. Stressing the need for a joint parliamentary committee…
New Delhi: Southwest monsoon has advanced over Southeast Bay of Bengal, Nicobar Islands and South Andaman Sea on Friday, setting the stage for the four-month rainy season crucial for the country’s farm economy. Earlier this week, the weather office said the onset of monsoon over Kerala, marking its entry into the mainland, would be slightly delayed…
