London: Avtar Singh Purba alias Khanda, a prominent pro-Khalistani activist who was involved in the attack on the Indian High Commission in London, died at a hospital in the city of Birmingham on Thursday morning, a UK-based Sikh organisation said in a statement. Sikh Federation UK, which has styled itself as one of the largest Sikh…
Bhubaneswar: Winner of five successive gold from 2002 to 2018 in women’s 4x400m relay, India is struggling to string together a six-member team for the upcoming Asian Games, and chief coach Radhakrishnan Nair attributed it to the lack of back-up from junior athletes. The reason for the lack of back-up is “burnout” due to “overtraining at…
New Delhi: Ending months of speculation around the Asia Cup, the the Asian Cricket Council (ACC) on Thursday announced that the tournament will be staged in a hybrid model with four games in Pakistan and nine in Sri Lanka from August 31 to September 17. The deadlock over the staging of the 50-over tournament was…
New Delhi: Indian cyclist Ronaldo Singh Laitonjam on Thursday created a national record in men’s spring qualification after clocking 9.877 seconds at the Asian Track Cycling Championship in Niali, Malaysia. Ronaldo, who is a part of TOPS (Target Olympic Podium Scheme) finished 10th and qualified for R16 in men’s sprint. “Ace Indian cyclist Ronaldo Singh Laitonjam…
Chennai: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin on Thursday stepped up the attack against the BJP over the arrest of his cabinet colleague V Senthil Balaji, while the state human rights commission said it will look into Balaji’s allegations of alleged ill-treatment at the hands of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) during his arrest. Earlier, a…
Hyderabad: The city-based National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) on Thursday signed an MOA(Memorandum of Agreement) with the Hospital Development Society, Osmania General Hospital under CSR to support procurement of Medical Equipment” for Osmania General Hospital. The initial installation and commissioning of the project will be six months while the annual monitoring of the project including…
Pune: The Bharatiya Janata Party will win more than 350 seats in next year’s Lok Sabha elections and it is people’s wish that Narendra Modi take oath as the prime minister for the third time, said Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya on Thursday. Speaking to PTI on the sidelines of a press conference…
Bengaluru: The Karnataka cabinet on Thursday decided to repeal the anti-conversion law brought in by the previous BJP government. The government will introduce a bill in this regard in the upcoming legislature session, which starts on July 3. “The Cabinet discussed the anti-conversion bill. We have approved the bill to repeal the changes that were brought…
Nagpur: Tlangana Chief Minister and Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) president K Chandrasekhar Rao on Thursday inaugurated his party’s office in Nagpur, its first in Maharashtra, as part of his ambitious plan to increase the organisation’s footprint outside his home state. Rao, popularly known as ‘KCR’, was accorded a warm welcome by the workers of his…
New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday expressed concern over the fire incident at a coaching institute in northwest Delhi’s Mukherjee Nagar in which some students sustained minor injuries. Students of the coaching institute escaped though windows, and used ropes and ladders to climb down from the top floor. Kejriwal said there was…
