Baku (Azerbaijan): Teen chess sensation R Praggnanandhaa’s mother, R Nagalakshmi said on Friday she was elated to see her son seal a berth in the Candidates Tournament, adding the 18-year-old has a “long way to go” in the sport. The Candidates is the final contest to determine the challenger who will take on the incumbent world…
New Delhi: Vice President and Rajya Sabha chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar on Friday lamented that while the Judiciary and the Executive are in an overdrive to deliver, the scene in the Legislature is “dismal”. He also said while people in the political arena have all the rights to do politics, when it comes to nation’s development, politicians…
Budapest: Olympic champion Neeraj Chopra needed just one big throw to qualify for the World Championships men’s javelin throw final as well 2024 Paris Games by notching up his fourth career-best performance of 88.77m here on Friday. The 2024 Paris Olympics qualifying mark is 85.50m. The qualifying window began on July 1. The 25-year-old Chopra’s qualifying…
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday refused to entertain Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s plea challenging the high court order rejecting his request to stay the criminal defamation proceedings filed by the Gujarat University over his remarks about Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s educational qualification. Gujarat University Registrar Piyush Patel had filed a defamation case against…
Mumbai: Actor Aishwarya Lekshmi, who played boat woman “Poonguzhali” in Mani Ratnam’s period drama “Ponniyin Selvan”, says her performance in the film has been so loved that fans are now revisiting her past work. The two-part historical epic, based on author Kalki Krishnamurthy’s hugely popular 1955 Tamil novels of the same name, features the actor as…
New Delhi: The BJP on Friday rejected Rahul Gandhi’s charge that China has encroached on Indian territory as baseless and absurd, as it asserted that it is the opposition party which has committed “historic, unpardonable crime” in dealings with Beijing. BJP spokesperson Sudhanshu Trivedi quoted from selected works of first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru to say…
Athens: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday met his Greek counterpart Kyriakos Mitsotakis during which they discussed ways to further deepen bilateral relations in various sectors. This is the first visit by an Indian Prime Minister to Greece in the last 40 years. Mitsotakis warmly welcomed Modi after his meeting with President Katerina N Sakellaropoulou. The…
Thursday might not have favoured India’s 18-year-old Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa in the FIDE World Cup at Baku, Azerbaijan’s primate city. World No.1 Magnus Carlsen defeated him 2.5-1.5 in the tiebreaker to lift the chess title with a prize money of $1,10,000. He might have lost to Carlsen, yet he is the third Indian to accomplish such…
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday will address the B20 Summit India 2023, which will be attended by over 1,700 business leaders and experts from across the world. The three-day B20 Summit starts on Friday. Business 20 or B20 is one of the G20 forums representing the global business community, which was set up…
New Delhi: Art works and traditional items reflecting Indian heritage were the gifts of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s choice for some of the world leaders at the BRICS summit in Johannesburg. He presented a pair of ‘surahi’ from Telangana to South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, and Nagaland shawl to his wife and the first lady of…
