New Delhi: The BJP on Thursday asserted that it is the people of the country which helps it win elections, not the CIA or Mossad, as the ruling party hit out at the Congress, rejecting its leader Kumar Ketkar’s claim that the two foreign spy agencies plotted the Congress’ defeat in the 2014 Lok Sabha…
New Delhi: India’s Test vice-captain Rishabh Pant has apologised for the team’s shambolic performance in the 0-2 series loss to South Africa, asserting that the team will “regroup, refocus and reset” to come back stronger. India were handed a 0-2 drubbing in the series that ended with the second Test in Guwahati on Tuesday. Pant…
Moscow: India imported 5.4 million tonnes of Russian Oil worth €2.1 billion between January and September 2025 aboard 30 vessels sailing under false flags, a European think tank claimed on Thursday. The shipments made India the largest national destination for crude moved by Russia’s expanding “shadow fleet,” the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean…
Hyderabad: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday virtually inaugurated Indian space startup Skyroot’s Infinity Campus, here, and also unveiled the company’s first orbital rocket Vikram-I, which has capability to launch satellites to orbit. In his address, the PM highlighted the government’s ‘historic’ space reforms and said that opening up the space sector to private players…
New Delhi: Former India captain Sunil Gavaskar has come out in defence of the embattled Gautam Gambhir, saying the head coach can only prepare the team and it is the players who have to deliver on the field. Gambhir has come in for some scathing criticism following the massive 408-run loss to South Africa in…
Dhaka: A Dhaka court on Thursday sentenced ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina to 21 years imprisonment and her two children to five years each over alleged irregularities in allocation of plots under a government housing project after their trial in absentia. Dhaka Special Judge Court-5 handed down the sentences to 78-year-old Hasina, her son Sajib…
Beijing/Hong Kong: The death toll in a deadly fire in multiple high-rise towers in Hong Kong has risen to 44 with 279 people still missing, Chinese official media reports said on Thursday. Three men have been arrested for suspected manslaughter in the fire that broke out in Wang Fuk Court on Wednesday, Hong Kong Police…
Ahmedabad: Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel on Wednesday exuded confidence in organising “grand and historic” Commonwealth Games in 2030 after Ahmedabad was formally awarded the hosting rights for the prestigious sports event. Deputy CM and Sports Minister Harsh Sanghavi termed the award of hosting rights a historic moment for Indian sports. “A moment of immense…
New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi alleged on Wednesday that in the name of SIR, the BJP is creating a voter list to its liking by removing backwards, Dalits, the deprived, and the poor from it, and claimed that the Election Commission (EC) is responsible for this “murder of democracy”. Gandhi’s remarks came over a…
Kolkata: The Election Commission has reported that nearly 26 lakh voters’ names in West Bengal’s current electoral rolls do not match the voter list of 2002, an official said on Wednesday. The discrepancy emerged after the state’s latest voter list was compared with the lists prepared across different states between 2002 and 2006 during the…
