New Delhi: Accused of sexual harassment by India’s top wrestlers, under-fire national federation chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh on Thursday indicated that he will fight with all his might to prove his innocence. In a video message, the BJP MP, without making a mention of the allegations against him, indicated that he would not accept defeat…
New Delhi: Coming down heavily on the aggrieved wrestlers, Indian Olympic Association (IOA) President PT Usha on Thursday said the grapplers protesting on the streets amounts to indiscipline and is tarnishing the country’s image. Decorated wrestlers Vinesh Phogat, Bajrang Punia and Sakshi malik are the three central characters in the renewed protests against Wrestling Federation…
New Delhi: Gold price climbed Rs 520 to Rs 61,120 per 10 grams in the national capital on Thursday amid a rally in precious metal prices internationally, according to HDFC Securities. In the previous trade, the yellow metal had closed at Rs 60,600 per 10 grams. Silver also jumped Rs 440 to Rs 75,340 per…
New Delhi: Hospitality tech firm OYO turned cash flow positive for the first time in the fourth quarter of FY2023. The company’s Founder & Group CEO Ritesh Agarwal shared the update with OYO employees addressing a townhall virtually on Thursday, sources told PTI. The company is anticipated to end the quarter with nearly Rs 90 crore…
New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate on Thursday said it carried out searches against a Bengaluru-based online education company, fully owned and controlled by Chinese nationals, for allegedly violating the foreign exchange law and remitting Rs 82 crore to China ‘illegally’. ED sleuths searched two locations of Pigeon Education Technology India Pvt Ltd, which provides online education…
Mumbai: Equity benchmark indices Sensex and Nifty ended in the green on Thursday, climbing for the fourth straight day, amid fresh foreign fund inflows and intense buying in IT and telecom stocks. Buying in index majors Infosys and Reliance Industries added to the optimism in the equity market. The 30-share BSE Sensex climbed 348.80 points or…
Washington: The Indian-American community is small but powerful enough to be instrumental in changing America’s foreign policy, said an Indian-American leader, who played a key role in shaping some of the key moments in bilateral ties. Swadesh Chatterjee, a Padma Bhushan awardee in 2001, said the US-India relationship has just scratched the surface and there are…
Karachi: At least seven people, including three children and a woman, were killed when a fire broke out in a coach of an express train in Pakistan’s Sindh province, an official said on Thursday. The incident happened on late Wednesday night when a fire broke out in a business-class coach of the Karachi Express train shortly…
Houston: The Indian-American stepfather of a missing six-year-old boy, who is presumed dead, faces another charge that he stole USD 10,000 in cash from his employer before fleeing to India with his wife and her six children last month, police in the US state of Texas have said. Arshdeep Singh and his wife have been charged…
Colombo: The US has sanctioned former senior Sri Lankan Navy Commander Wasantha Karannagoda for “gross violation” of human rights during the brutal conflict with the LTTE, evoking a strong reaction from Colombo which said the “unilateral” move was “counter-productive”. The 70-year-old former Navy commander from 2005-2009 is the second senior defence official of such stature to…
