New Delhi: The BJP on Sunday announced its candidates for the upcoming Rajya Sabha polls, fielding M Nagaraja from Karnataka and Mahesh Kewat from Madhya Pradesh. The party also named Lingaraj Patil and Raghu Kautilya as its candidates for the Karnataka Legislative Council elections. The BJP’s central election committee has approved the names of these…
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari has said he wants the BJP functionaries to believe in a “we and not I” principle, and stressed the importance of collective leadership to advance the saffron party’s “political thoughts and ideologies” and meet people’s expectations. Addressing a preparatory meeting for the BJP’s special training camp in New…
Tel Aviv/Dubai/New Brunswick, New Jersey: Israel said it struck military targets in western and central Iran on Monday, even after U.S. President Donald Trump reportedly told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to refrain from further attacks. Hours earlier, Trump said new strikes by Israel and Iran would not affect his administration’s peace talks with Tehran,…
Washington: US President Donald Trump has asked Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu not to retaliate to Iran’s latest barrage of missiles, saying it would jeopardise the ongoing negotiations for a peace deal to end the three-month long conflict. US media outlet Axios reported that after Iran launched missiles at Israel on Sunday, Trump spoke to…
Mumbai: Indian cricket was sent into a frenzy following the shocking revelation that BCCI senior selection committee, in alignment with head coach Gautam Gambhir, has officially removed Suryakumar Yadav as the men’s T20I captain. More surprisingly, the selectors have indicated that Surya will no longer be considered for T20I format moving forward, signaling a complete,…
Bhopal: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday named Mahesh Kewat as its third candidate for the election to three Rajya Sabha seats in Madhya Pradesh. Kewat, chairman of the Fishermen Welfare Board, will contest against Congress’ Meenakshi Natarajan for the third seat. Earlier, on Saturday, the two other BJP candidates, Tarun Chugh and Rajneesh…
New York: Police are offering a USD 20,000 reward for information leading to arrest in the killing of a 28-year-old Indian man in Philadelphia who was shot dead after delivering pizza to a vacant home. Anshul Kuncha, who hailed from Hyderabad, was shot in the back of the head and killed around 12:30 am Friday…
New Delhi: Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Sunday outlined a collaborative blueprint for making India into a developed country by 2047, emphasising that economic development needs to be inclusive. Addressing an event of the Maheshwari community here, Birla emphasised that entrepreneurship and nation-building must progress hand in hand to ensure that economic growth is…
Why Central Banks Still Need Both Gold and Treasuries M Radha Madhavi The global reserve landscape is undergoing a subtle but significant transformation, according to a recent analysis by the research team at Invictus Finserv LLP. The study points to the latest reserve data released by the European Central Bank (ECB), which shows gold accounting…
There was a time when Indian cricket treated spin bowling as an art form rather than a mere method of taking wickets. The ball did not simply travel from one end of the pitch to the other; it danced, drifted, dipped, teased and deceived. The spinner was not merely a bowler but a craftsman, a…
