New Delhi: Indian consumers spent an estimated Rs 1 lakh crore during the Dhanteras festival this year, driven by robust gold and silver purchases despite sharp price increases, a leading traders’ body said on Saturday. The Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT) said gold and silver sales alone accounted for Rs 60,000 crore of the…
Mumbai: Rear Admiral Shantanu Jha has taken over the command of Maharashtra Naval Area (MNA) from Rear Admiral Anil Jaggi, the Navy said on Saturday. Jha took over at a ceremonial parade held at INS Kunjali on Friday. Rear Admiral Jha was commissioned into the Indian Navy on July 1, 1993. A graduate of the…
Patna: The CPI(ML) Liberation, a constituent of the INDIA bloc in Bihar, on Saturday released its list of 20 candidates for the upcoming Bihar assembly elections, renominating all its 12 sitting MLAs. The party fielded new faces in seats that it could not win in the 2020 assembly polls. The Left party had, in the…
Lucknow: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath flagged off the first batch of BrahMos missiles manufactured at the BrahMos Aerospace unit here on Saturday, officials said. According to an official statement, this is not only a milestone for the Uttar Pradesh Defence Industrial Corridor (UPDIC) but will also provide a…
Lucknow: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Saturday said every inch of Pakistan’s territory lies within range of BrahMos and what happened during Operation Sindoor was just a trailer. BrahMos has become a key pillar of India’s armed forces and has strengthened the country’s belief that it can turn its dreams into reality, Singh said after…
Lahore: Despite the pullout by Afghanistan, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) said on Saturday that the three-nation T20I tournament will be held on schedule from November 17 to 29 in Lahore. A senior PCB official said they are in talks with a few other boards to replace Afghanistan in the tri-series, in which Sri Lanka…
Kabul: At least three Afghanistani cricketers have been killed in a Pakistani airstrike in Paktika province. The Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) said that the players had traveled from Urgun to Sharana in the eastern Paktika province on the Pakistan border to take part in a friendly match. The ACB named the three players as “Kabeer,…
Colombo: Openers Laura Wolvaardt and Tazmin Brits struck unbeaten half-centuries as South Africa dished out a thoroughly professional performance to outplay Sri Lanka by 10 wickets in a rain-curtailed game and inch closer to the semifinals of the Women’s World Cup here on Friday. Set a target of 121 under the Duckworth-Lewis-Stern (DLS) method after…
New Delhi: In a world that is becoming “more protectionist”, countries like India and the UK signing a “big trade deal”, sends a “very positive signal” to the world, former British prime minister Rishi Sunak said on Friday. In an interactive session held at NDTV World Summit here, he also said it was “great” to…
New Delhi: The India-Sri Lanka free trade agreement (FTA), signed way back in 1998, “needs to be upgraded”, Sri Lankan Prime Minister Harini Amarasuriya said on Friday. In her address at NDTV World Summit here, she also said that as the island nation rebuilds, its partnership with India has “evolved into a forward-looking, multi-faceted collaboration…
