Dubai: The upcoming inaugural edition of the Global Chess League (GCL) will feature the sport’s icons such as Viswanathan Anand, Magnus Carlsen, Hou Yifan and Ding Liren. GCL is a joint venture between Tech Mahindra and the international chess federation FIDE. The complete list of players was announced on Tuesday. The first season of the Global…
Hyderabad: The inaugural edition of the Indian Taekwondo Premier League (TPL) will take place from June 22 to June 26 at the Talkatora Stadium in New Delhi. “The men’s League will be followed by an international league in Doha, Qatar. Thereafter, we will have a League for women and then for kids, becoming the first…
Mumbai, May 23 (PTI) Mumbai City FC on Tuesday announced that Spanish midfielder Alberto Noguera has signed a new one-year contract, extending his stay with the club until the end of the 2023-24 season. The 33-year-old played a vital role in Mumbai City’s successful campaign last season, which saw the Islanders secure the 2022-23 Indian…
Sydney: Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Tuesday that his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi gets a “rock star reception” wherever he goes, as he welcomed his “dear friend” at an event here and compared him to American singer Bruce Springsteen. Albanese pitched for greater cooperation between India and Australia as he welcomed Modi to a…
Sydney: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday announced that India will open a consulate in Brisbane to fulfill the long-pending demand by the diaspora. Modi made the announcement while addressing a packed stadium at Sydney’s Qudos Bank Arena. The event was also attended by his Australian counterpart Anthony Albanese. “An absolute delight connecting with Indian diaspora…
Srinagar: China not attending the G20 meeting in Srinagar does not make any difference and it is their loss, not India’s, Union minister Jitendra Singh said on Tuesday. Delegates of all G20 countries, barring China, arrived in Srinagar on Monday to attend the third G20 tourism working group meeting. “That (China not attending the meeting)…
New Delhi: Researchers have showed that coastal ecosystems globally are a net greenhouse gas sink for carbon dioxide (CO2), but emissions of methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O) counteract some of the CO2 consumption by these sinks. From tropical lagoons to polar fjords, from coastal mangrove forests to underwater seagrass communities, many coastlines around the…
Ahmedabad: A court here in Gujarat on Tuesday issued a fresh summons to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and Aam Aadmi Party’s Rajya Sabha member Sanjay Singh to appear before it on June 7 in a criminal defamation case lodged by the Gujarat University over Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s academic degree. The court of Additional…
Chandigarh: Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Tuesday said the AAP will seek the support of political parties against the Centre’s Ordinance on control of services in Delhi in a bid to stall it in the Rajya Sabha. The AAP is locked in a bitter tussle with the BJP-led Centre since the Union government promulgated an…
New Delhi: The heatwave conditions are likely to persist in the national capital on Tuesday with the maximum temperature expected to settle around 43 degrees Celsius, even as the weather office has forecast light rain or drizzle later in the day. Delhi is reeling under scorching heat for the past several days with the mercury…
