New Delhi: India’s Dhruv Sitwala settled for silver medal after losing 972-1500 against Singapore’s Peter Gilchrist in the final of the Pan Am Cup billiards championship in Winnipeg, Canada. The reigning Asian billiards champion, Sitwala had started the game in a commanding manner but could not maintain his advantage. Sitwala was up by 450 points…
New Delhi: Injury management of key players heading into a crucial all-format tour of New Zealand and the broader roadmap for next year’s ODI World Cup will be the key points of discussion at a BCCI review meeting featuring head coach Gautam Gambhir and chairman of selectors Ajit Agarkar in Mumbai on Thursday. The June-July…
Hyderabad: The Congress government and the previous BRS regime have not celebrated ‘Hyderabad Liberation Day’ on September 17 due to “vote bank politics” and fear of AIMIM, Telangana BJP president N Ramchander Rao alleged on Wednesday. The erstwhile princely state of Hyderabad under Nizam rule merged with the Indian Union on September 17, 1948. Speaking…
Ayodhya (UP): The Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust on Wednesday appointed retired Air Marshal Jeetendra Mishra as its first chief executive officer, former treasurer Govind Dev Giri as its new general secretary and Mahesh Bhagchandka as treasurer at a meeting held here. Mishra, who headed the Western Air Command during Operation Sindoor, was selected…
Mumbai: BJP leaders protested in Nashik on Wednesday against Congress MP Rahul Gandhi’s visit to the city, accusing his party of opposing women’s representation in Parliament and state assemblies. The allegation prompted senior party leader and former Maharashtra chief minister Prithviraj Chavan to counter that the ruling party should first “ensure the entry of women…
New Delhi: Attacking the Congress for questioning India’s GDP numbers, Union minister Kiren Rijiju on Wednesday asked if the opposition party was in a “state of deep intoxication” or had become “so swayed by their blind loathing of India’s growth that they lost touch with ground reality”. Rijiju made the remarks in a post on…
Kathmandu: Nepal’s Prime Minister Balendra Shah on Wednesday briefed the House of Representatives about the devastation caused by the Bhotekoshi floods, saying that “determination and courage” are needed to fight the crisis. Flash floods, triggered by a collapse or avalanche of ice and rock near the Nepal-Tibet border, devastated towns and villages in northern and…
At bauma CONEXPO INDIA 2026, Brokk will arrive with a proposition that may look slightly mischievous in a construction-equipment market where bigger machines still tend to attract the bigger conversations. Its demolition robots are small enough to make a conventional excavator look almost theatrical, but that is hardly the comparison Brokk is interested in. For…
Kathmandu: The death toll from Nepal’s devastating flash floods rose to 1,127 on Wednesday as rescuers are racing to find thousands still missing a week after the Himalayan disaster, police said. According to the Nepal Police, 348 more dead bodies were recovered from Chitwan, 217 from Nawalparasi East, 190 from Nawalparasi West and 155 from…
Varanasi (UP): The water level of the Ganga river has crossed the warning mark here, prompting the district administration to suspend all boat operations and step up monitoring of flood-affected areas, officials said on Wednesday. According to the Central Water Commission, the water level of the river in the district was recorded at 70.29 metres,…
