Galle: A gruelling trial by spin awaits Indian batters in the two-Test series against Sri Lanka beginning here on Saturday with head coach Gautam Gambhir’s standing as the country’s red-ball in-charge relying heavily on its outcome. Under Gambhir, India have been a near-infallible white-ball unit as revealed by their rampaging title-winning runs in the Champions…
Ambala: Police on Thursday evening resorted to tear gas and cane charge to restore traffic on Delhi-Amritsar National Highway after protesters blocked the road in Ambala demanding action against an anti-Khalistani terrorist front chief for attempting to run over some people with his car recently. The vehicular traffic on the key NH44 was restored only…
Chandigarh: Union Minister Pralhad Joshi on Thursday slammed Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, claiming that the LoP in Lok Sabha feels he’s “born to rule”, and alleged that his frustration was clearly visible. Joshi’s remark came after the conclusion of the Monsoon Session of Parliament that saw relentless protests by the opposition over the police action…
Dehradun: Six people died and 14 sustained injuries on Thursday after water and debris entered a tunnel under construction at a hydroelectric project site in Chamoli district of Uttarakhand, officials said. According to preliminary information shared by the officials, 22 workers were trapped inside the tunnel. Twenty people have been brought out of the tunnel….
Washington: An Indian-origin man has pleaded guilty in a federal court in New Jersey to accessing child sexual exploitation material involving a prepubescent minor, the Department of Justice said in a statement. Abhishek Vijaykumar, a resident of Hasbrouck Heights in New Jersey, knowingly accessed the illicit material in March 2024, it said. Investigators found more…
Kolkata: The Calcutta High Court said its earlier stay on OBC reservations to 114 classes has been revived as the current West Bengal government has withdrawn the previous dispensation’s special leave petition (SLP) before the Supreme Court challenging the order. The court, while declaring void the OBC-A certificate of a person, held that the petitioner…
Ranchi: Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren on Thursday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to reconsider the Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Amendment Bill, 2026, saying restrictions on state levies could significantly reduce the state’s fiscal space and affect its ability to address the social and environmental costs of mining. In a letter to Modi,…
New Delhi: Delhi Traffic Police on Thursday said it has digitally mapped seven designated locations near the Red Fort to facilitate hassle-free parking and navigation for visitors and dignitaries attending the Independence Day celebrations. The initiative has been undertaken in collaboration with Google Maps and Mappls as part of the traffic police’s technology-driven efforts to…
Greetings to the Orangenews9 Team and its readers. Responding to the Editor’s appeal, I chose to write about how India’s financial architecture has evolved during the last eighty years of Independence. The story of post-Independence India’s financial architecture is a remarkable chronicle of reinvention. Over nearly eight decades, the nation has moved from a rigid,…
Let me share my thoughts while extending warm greetings to Team Orangenews9 and its readers on the eve of our 80th Independence Day. May the years ahead take Bharat towards becoming a stronger, more developed nation by 2047, when it celebrates its centenary, and beyond. They say a few minutes is a long time in…
