New Delhi: The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) on Saturday said it has arrested Jaffer Sadiq, a former DMK party functionary in Tamil Nadu, in connection with an international drugs trafficking investigation case estimated to be worth more than Rs 2,000 crore. Sadiq was arrested on Saturday from Delhi, NCB deputy director general (operations) Gyaneshwar Singh…
Dharmasala: England veteran James Anderson added another glorious chapter to his remarkable tale of longevity when he became the first pacer and third bowler to take 700 Test wickets here on Saturday. Anderson reached the milestone in his 187th Test by removing India’s Kuldeep Yadav caught behind on day three of the fifth Test here….
Itanagar: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said the kind of work done by his government in the last five years in the Northeast, the Congress would have taken 20 years to do it. The PM was addressing a public meeting in Arunachal Pradesh’s Itanagar after unveiling development projects worth Rs 55,600 crore in the…
New Delhi: As the world looks to double the data centre industry size to about USD 8 trillion, India has an opportunity to leapfrog into accelerated computing as it has no legacy infrastructure, a senior official of GPU major NVIDIA said on Friday. Speaking at Tie-Con Delhi-NCR, NVIDIA Asia South Managing Director Vishal Dhupar said…
Prayagaraj (UP): Around 9.70 lakh people took a dip in the Ganga and the holy Sangam here till 6 pm on the occasion of Mahashivratri, also the last bathing day of the ongoing Magh Mela in Prayagraj. A Magh Mela administration official said bathers started pouring into the Sangam area from morning, and by 6…
Kazirganga (Assam): Prime Minister Narendra Modi took the elephant and jeep safari inside Assam’s Kaziranga National Park and Tiger Reserve on Saturday morning, an official said. Modi, on his maiden visit to the UNESCO World Heritage Site, first took the elephant safari in Mihimukh area of the Central Kohora Range of the park followed by…
Imphal: The first batch of seven Myanmar nationals, who had entered Manipur while fleeing a military coup in the neighbouring country in 2021, were deported on Friday, officials said. The seven foreign nationals were transported by a helicopter from Imphal airport to Moreh border town in Tengnoupal district. From there, they were handed over to…
New Delhi: India leads in content creation in the South Asia region, accounting for over 70 per cent of the region’s information on Wikimedia projects, non-profit organisation Wikimedia Foundation said on Friday. Wikimedia Foundation, the entity behind Wikipedia, said that India has witnessed a commendable 13 per cent growth in content related to women on…
Kozhikode (Kerala): K Muraleedharan, Congress MP and son of party stalwart and former Kerala chief minister K Karunakaran, on Friday said that his father’s legacy is an “asset” of the grand old party and “would not be handed over to the BJP”. Speaking to reporters after being nominated to represent the Thrissur Lok Sabha constituency,…
New Delhi/Bengaluru: Engineer-turned-philanthropist and author Sudha Murty was nominated to Rajya Sabha on Friday, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi lauding her contribution in diverse fields. Murty, 73, the former chairperson of Infosys Foundation, is also renowned for her contribution to Kannada and English literature and is a recipient of the Sahitya Akademi Bal Sahitya Puraskar,…
