Bhubaneshwar: Indian football team head coach Igor Stimac expects fans from all over the country to throng the Salt Lake Stadium in Kolkata during the country’s World Cup qualification match against Kuwait on June 6, which will also be the last international match for talismanic captain Sunil Chhetri. The match against Kuwait will mark the…
Dubai: Pakistan legend Shahid Afridi has been named as a tournament ambassador for the upcoming T20 World Cup 2024 in the Caribbean and the United States of America (USA). He has joined Chris Gayle, Yuvraj Singh and Usain Bolt in the list of ambassadors. Afridi won the Player of the Series award in the inaugural…
Jalandhar: Prime Minister Narendra Modi continued his sharp attack on the INDIA bloc on Friday, saying the “balloon” of the opposition alliance has burst and no one wants to give their vote to it. Addressing a Lok Sabha poll rally in Jalandhar, his third in Punjab this election season, Modi pointed out that five phases…
New Delhi: Dr Krishna Ella, co-founder and Executive Chairman of Bharat Biotech, has been awarded the prestigious Dean’s medal by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, the Hyderabad-based pharma company said on Friday. The award was presented to him by Dean Ellen J MacKenzie during the Bloomberg School’s Convocation Ceremony held on May…
New Delhi: A Delhi court on Friday convicted Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) leader Medha Patkar in a defamation case lodged against her by V K Saxena, the incumbent lieutenant governor of the national capital. Metropolitan Magistrate Raghav Sharma found Patkar guilty of criminal defamation. Under the relevant law, the activist may get a jail term…
New Delhi: The Supreme Court said it cannot go by sentiments and has to act as per law, as it refused to entertain a petition seeking contempt action for alleged non-compliance with the top court’s order on the protection of properties of people displaced during the Manipur violence. A vacation bench of Justices Bela M…
New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Friday opposed in the Delhi High Court the bail plea of BRS leader K Kavitha in a money laundering case linked to the alleged excise policy scam, saying her release would adversely affect further investigation to unearth the “deep-rooted, multi-layered conspiracy”. The ED, in its reply to Kavitha’s…
Deoghar (Jharkhand): Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Friday accused the Narendra Modi government of looting the country’s water, forest and land in the past 10 years as had been done by the British. Kharge also alleged that the saffron party has been dividing the country along religious lines while, he claimed, Congress always united Hindus…
New Delhi: Over 11 crore voters will decide the fate of 889 candidates contesting in the penultimate phase of the Lok Sabha elections across 58 seats. Polling for the Anantnag-Rajouri seat in Jammu and Kashmir will also be held on Saturday. The election there was postponed from phase three to six due to logistical issues…
Mumbai: BCCI secretary Jay Shah on Friday rejected claims that the Board has approached any former Australian cricketer to take over the job of India’s head coach, a position which will be left vacant by the exit of Rahul Dravid after the T20 World Cup next month. While Dravid has reportedly told the board that…
