Paris: Away from the spotlight owing to an injury-plagued buildup, Mirabai Chanu will be in focus on Wednesday when she attempts to become India’s first weightlifter to win two Olympic medals but a challenging field and lingering fitness concerns stand in the way. The lifter, who opened India’s tally on the first day of the…
Dhaka: Over 100 people have been killed in the violence across Bangladesh as chaos reined supreme hours after Sheikh Hasina resigned as prime minister and fled the country on Monday, reports said on Tuesday amid signs of a return to normalcy. The situation in Dhaka was largely calm on Tuesday morning after a day of…
New Delhi: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Tuesday briefed an all-party meeting about the ongoing situation in Bangladesh, and appreciated the unanimous support by all parties. In a post on X, he also shared photographs of the meeting at Parliament House. “Briefed an All-Party meeting in Parliament today about the ongoing developments in Bangladesh.Appreciate…
Wayanad (Kerala): The Kerala government announced on Monday that it will implement a comprehensive rehabilitation package for the landslide-affected people of Wayanad, where rescue operations and relief missions are still ongoing and stories of enormous loss as well as great courage continue to emerge. Land would be acquired, houses would be constructed and other infrastructure…
Rudraprayag (U’khand): More than 1,400 people stranded on the rain-ravaged trek route to Kedarnath were evacuated to safety on Monday as the rescue operations entered its fifth day. Air rescue operations gained momentum with the weather clearing in the Kedar Valley. The Indian Air Force’s (IAF) Chinook and MI17 helicopters aided in the evacuation of…
Washington: The Biden Administration has said an interim government in Bangladesh, which has descended into chaos after the sudden resignation of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina amid violent anti-quota protests, should be formed according to democratic principles, rule of law and the will of the Bangladeshi people. “We want to see the Bangladeshi people decide the…
New Delhi: As the Bangladesh situation snowballed into a major political turmoil on Monday, a former Indian high commissioner to Dhaka has cautioned that India will have to be “very vigilant” on the border in the wake of the crisis even as he asserted that New Delhi will be “prepared for all eventualities”. Pankaj Saran,…
Ramanagar (Karnataka): The opposition BJP and JD(S), on Monday continued their week-long protest march from Bengaluru to Mysuru for the third day, against an alleged Mysuru Urban Development Authority site allotment scam seeking to corner the Congress government and Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah. The ‘Mysuru Chalo’ padayatre (foot march) — against the alleged fraudulent allotment…
New Delhi: A recent survey of 5,169 rural youths across India reveals significant employment and gender disparities. While nearly half of rural men aged 18 to 25 are employed, only a quarter of women in the same age group hold jobs, highlighting a substantial gender gap in rural employment. The “State of Rural Youth Employment…
New Delhi: The Lok Sabha on Monday approved the budget estimates for expenditure contained in the demands for grants for different ministries after applying a guillotine. The guillotine was applied after the House discussed demands for grants of 4 ministries — Railways, Education, Health and Fisheries. The House also passed the Appropriation Bill 2024, which…
