New Delhi: BJP leaders, including Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta and state president Harsh Malhotra, paid tributes to former external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj on her death anniversary on Thursday, recalling her contributions to the city and the country. The party leaders also planted saplings at the Delhi BJP office and Vasant Udyan in the…
Ranchi: The protest against alleged examination irregularities in Jharkhand intensified on Thursday with opposition MLAs protesting on Assembly premises on the first day of its Monsoon Session, as the stir gained steam over the past 13 days with six demonstrators on hunger strike. The protest, which began on July 25 under the banner of the…
Melbourne: Australian pacer Mitchell Starc is just one wicket shy of equalling Indian great Kapil Dev in the list of all-time highest wicket-takers in Test cricket and says it would be humbling to be placed in that star-studded top-10. Starc has 433 wickets in 105 Tests, one less than Kapil. The two-Test series against Bangladesh…
Guwahati: Fourteen districts and 1.6 lakh people were affected by floods in Assam while the death toll rose to 95 with six more deaths, officials said on Thursday. Six fatalities were reported on Wednesday — two each from Sivasagar and Biswanath districts, and one each from Golaghat and Morigaon. The worst-hit Sivasagar alone has accounted…
Mumbai: The Bombay High Court has found former Tehelka magazine editor Tarun Tejpal guilty of raping a former colleague, overturning his 2021 acquittal in a decade-old sexual assault case. The Goa bench of the Bombay High Court said it was convicting Tejpal under sections of Indian law about rape and sexual harassment, legal website LiveLaw…
Washington: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket upper stage crashed into the moon on Wednesday. NASA estimated the impact would create a crater 60 feet across and 12 feet deep. The Falcon 9 rocket left Earth in January of this year. It was carrying Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost 1 lunar lander. The rocket’s upper stage wasn’t…
Peshawar: The chief minister of Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Muhammad Suhail Afridi, announced on Wednesday that supporters of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) will march towards Islamabad on September 27, if “justice” is not provided to the party’s founding chairman and incarcerated former prime minister, Imran Khan. Addressing a large public gathering of PTI supporters in…
New Delhi: Africa is India’s partner and its “priority”, and whether one speaks of a multipolar world order or of a reformed multilateralism, it will happen only when the continent is “given its due place”, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said on Wednesday. In his address at an event marking Africa Day 2026, Jaishankar said…
Ranchi: Students intensified their protest over alleged irregularities in recruitment examinations in Jharkhand with five demonstrators joining an indefinite hunger strike, even as Chief Minister Hemant Soren on Wednesday said the question paper leak issues are a national problem and offered talks to resolve the impasse. The protest, which began on July 25 under the…
New Delhi: Former Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday declared that she is determined to return home in December to put the country on the “right track” by restoring democracy notwithstanding the risk of facing the threat of imprisonment or a death sentence. Hasina made the remarks during an audio-only virtual press conference —…
