New Delhi: Union Minister Pralhad Joshi on Tuesday said India is the fourth-largest nation in the world in terms of renewable energy capacity, at 257 GW, a three-fold jump from 81 GW in 2014. Addressing the 8th session of the International Solar Alliance Assembly, the Union Minister of New and Renewable Energy said India’s solar…
Patna: Lakhs of devotees across Bihar offered morning prayers to the rising sun on Tuesday, marking the culmination of the four-day Chhath Puja festival. The devotees gathered on the banks of the Ganga and other water bodies here since early morning to offer ‘Usha Arghya’ to the rising sun. The Patna district administration made elaborate…
New Delhi: India’s ODI vice-captain Shreyas Iyer, who suffered a ruptured spleen and rib cage injury during the third ODI against Australia, has been shifted out of the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of a Sydney hospital and is now in a stable condition, easing concerns over his health. “He has been shifted out of ICU…
Amaravati: Cyclonic storm ‘Montha’ over the west-central Bay of Bengal moved north-northwestwards with a speed of 17 km per hour in the past six hours and lay centered over the same region by 2.30 am on Tuesday, about 310 km south-southeast of Kakinada, said the India Meteorological Department. It is likely to intensify into a…
Patna: The Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) has expelled 27 leaders — including two MLAs, four former legislators and an MLC — for anti-party activities and “defying the organization’s ideology” in the run-up to the Bihar assembly elections. According to a statement issued by RJD state chief Mangani Lal Mandal, the expelled leaders have also been…
When cricket becomes the property of a few, the game loses its soul — and thousands of dreams perish silently. The Telangana Cricket Association (TCA) was born not from privilege, but from protest — a movement against years of neglect, elitism, and administrative monopoly that had gripped the Hyderabad Cricket Association (HCA). It all began…
Some politicians speak sense, some who speak nonsense — and then there’s Priyank Kharge, Karnataka’s Minister for IT and Rural Development, who seems to have made ignorance his political trademark. When the son of Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge recently questioned the “talent” of Gujarat and Assam, he wasn’t making an offhand comment — he was…
Panjim: International chess federation president Arkady Dvorkovich on Monday called India a “modern powerhouse” in the sport and said the upcoming FIDE World Cup was being organized in Goa because the country had become the “central pillar in the global structure of our sport”. As many as 206 top chess exponents from 80 countries will…
Kuala Lumpur: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Monday held separate meetings with Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon for wide-ranging discussions on bilateral ties. Jaishankar also met Japanese Foreign Minister Motegi Toshimitsu, apart from his counterparts Mohamad Haji Hasan from Malaysia, Mauro Vieira of Brazil, and Dato Erywan…
Chandigarh: Punjab on Monday witnessed the season’s highest single-day spike of 147 farm fires, pushing the total number of incidents since September 15 to 890, official data showed. Tarn Taran and Amritsar districts accounted for the bulk of the farm fires, Punjab Pollution Control Board (PPCB) data showed, as many farmers continued to disregard the…
