New Delhi: India imported a record crude sunflower oil of 4,45,723 tonne in March, taking advantage of lower prices, while the country’s total edible oil imports reached 11.49 lakh tonne in the month, industry body SEA said on Thursday. Crude sunflower oil imports stood at 1,48,145 lakh tonnes in March 2023, while total edible oil…
Sydney: Australia leg-spinner for limited-overs formats Adam Zampa says an exhausting run in 2023 left him “completely drained” which led to him missing the Indian Premier League this year for Rajasthan Royals. Zampa, who was a part of Australia’s 50-over World Cup winning campaign in India last year, pulled out of IPL-17 citing tiredness and…
New Delhi: Rutuja Bhosale won the singles rubber while the duo of Prarthana Thombare and Ankita Raina prevailed in the doubles contest as the Indian women’s team defeated Chinese Taipei 2-1 in a Billie Jean King Cup Asia-Oceania Group-1 tie in Changsha, China, on Thursday. India are currently placed third in Pool A following two…
Perth: The series already lost, India would look to work on their weak links ahead of the Paris Olympics when they take on the mighty Australia in the fourth men’s hockey Test here on Friday. The Indians started the tour on a disastrous note losing 1-5 and 2-4 against the hosts but produced a stellar…
Mumbai: NASA’s mission that launched sounding rockets during the recent total solar eclipse was led by Aroh Barjatya, an India-born researcher who studied in cities across the country before moving to the United States, his family said. The US space agency on April 8 launched three sounding rockets during the solar eclipse — visible in…
Rajnadgaon: A man allegedly working as a courier for senior Naxalite leaders was arrested in Chhattisgarh’s Mohla-Manpur-Ambagarh Chowki district on Thursday, a police official said. Maoist pamphlets and posters urging people to boycott Lok Sabha polls were seized from Ashwant Aandhia, who was held on a tip off at a mobile check post of the…
New Delhi: The BJP lashed out at RJD leader Misa Bharti on Thursday for threatening to put its leaders, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in jail if the INDIA bloc is voted to power at the Centre and said people will give the opposition parties a fitting reply in the upcoming Lok Sabha polls for…
Bengaluru: BJP MLA Arabail Shivaram Hebbar’s son Vivek Hebbar on Thursday joined the Congress party along with his supporters at Banavasi in Uttara Kannada district. After quitting the BJP, Vivek Hebbar joined the party in the presence of state Congress Vice President and former MLC Ivan D’Souza and other local party leaders. Speculations have been…
New Delhi: Lt Governor VK Saxena said this year’s Eid was perhaps for the first time in the history of Delhi that ‘namaz’ was offered inside mosques and not on the roads, and added that it was an excellent example of harmony and co-existence. Saxena greeted people on the occasion of Eid on Thursday and…
New Delhi: Olympic gold-medallist javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra is aiming to breach the 90m mark before the Paris Olympics and says the way his preparations are going, it could happen anytime soon. Chopra’s best throw in competition came during the 2022 Stockholm Diamond League, where he hurled the spear to a distance of 89.94m. While…
