Jaipur: If Prime Minister Narendra Modi wants, the fire in Manipur can be doused in two or three days by the army but he wants to keep it raging, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi told a party rally in Rajasthan on Wednesday. He alleged that the ideology of the BJP has set Manipur on fire and…
New Delhi: He may be one of the front-runners in the Olympic race but star Indian shuttler HS Prannoy doesn’t want to think about Paris right now and is instead focussing on “short-term targets” like breaking into the world’s top three. The most consistent Indian singles player in the last 12 months, Prannoy, ranked world number…
Bengaluru: India’s ambitious third Moon mission ‘Chandrayaan-3’ spacecraft successfully underwent another orbit reduction maneuver on Wednesday, bringing it even closer to the Moon’s surface, ISRO said. Post its launch on July 14, Chandrayaan-3 entered into lunar orbit on August 5. “Even closer to the moon’s surface. Chandrayaan-3’s orbit is reduced to 174 km x 1437…
Chennai: Like there are multiple colours in a rainbow, India has different cultures, languages and film industries and it’s time for the world to acknowledge it, says A R Rahman, the artiste whose music covers genres and geographies. Rahman, who has worked in the south, in the Hindi film industry as well as Hollywood, Broadway and…
New Delhi: BJP women MPs on Wednesday met Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla and demanded “stringent action” against Congress leader Rahul Gandhi for allegedly making an “inappropriate gesture” towards Union Minister Smriti Irani when she was speaking in the House. In a complaint, signed by more than 20 women parliamentarians, it was alleged that Gandhi behaved…
The recent revelation by The New York Times (NYT) regarding the investigation over the expansionist China’s funding to destabilize nations that pursue democratic practices, has come not as a surprise. It was the Enforcement Directorate (ED) that began investigating the New Delhi-based NewsClick over foreign funding in 2021, well before the last week’s NYT report…
New Delhi: Army Chief Gen Manoj Pande on Wednesday left for the UK on a five-day visit to attend a prestigious military event and hold talks with the top British defence brass on bilateral strategic issues. Gen Pande will review the 201st Sovereign’s Parade of Commissioning Course at the prestigious Royal Military Academy in Sandhurst as…
Chandigarh/Gurugram: Haryana Deputy Chief Minister Dushyant Chautala on Tuesday indicated that there were shortcomings of the administration in assessing the situation in Nuh, where a communal violence erupted on July 31 during a religious procession. The state government has extended the suspension of mobile internet and SMS services in the district till August 11, where…
New Delhi: Sparks flew on the first day of the debate on the no-trust motion moved by the Congress with the Opposition asserting that it was forced to do so to break Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ‘maun vrat’ (vow of silence) on Manipur and the treasury benches hitting back saying it was a no-trust vote…
London: Emphasising the importance of long format in women’s cricket, India skipper Harmanpreet Kaur has called for more international and domestic red-ball fixtures. In the current Future Tours Programme (FTP) cycle that goes on from 2022-25, Indian women’s team will play the fewest Test matches among the four sides competing in the longest format. “This year…
