Online Sports Desk The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) announced India’s 15-member squad for the much-anticipated two-Test series in New Zealand in November. Bengal pacer Akash Deep has returned to the side after more than a year, but veteran Mohammed Shami has not been recalled. The first Test will begin in Wellington…
Raipur: India survived a major scare before debutant Niki Prasad and veteran Deepti Sharma combined to take the hosts to a four-wicket win over Zimbabwe in the first Women’s T20 here on Friday. Opener Kelis Ndhlovu played some crisp strokes in her 44-ball 42 and Sharne Mayers smashed an unbeaten 43 off 33 balls but…
New Delhi: Parents of Ankita Bhandari, the 19-year-old resort receptionist whose body was found near Rishikesh in 2022, met senior officials of the CBI, which is probing the alleged role of a “VIP” in the murder case, officials said. The victim’s father, Virendra Singh Bhandari, and mother, Soni Devi, met with senior officials at the…
New Delhi: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Friday filed a chargesheet against five accused, including ULFA (I) chief Paresh Baruah, in connection with the recovery of an IED in Assam’s Guwahati on August 15, 2024. Myanmar-based United Liberation Front of Asom-Independent or ULFA (I) is a banned terrorist outfit. The chargesheet was filed before…
New Delhi: The Centre has made Aadhaar authentication or proof of possession of an Aadhaar number necessary to avail of scholarship benefits under the PM CARES for Children Scheme. However, it has made it clear that no child will be denied assistance for failure to authenticate Aadhaar or for not having been assigned an Aadhaar…
Once again, the Delhi Police appears to have demonstrated that it has learnt lessons from past mistakes. When CJP leader Abhijit Dipke sought to organise a Tiranga rally at the already-prohibited Central Park in Connaught Place, the authorities were determined not to allow another street mobilisation to spiral into a law-and-order crisis. The reported five-layer…
Delhi’s Ramlila organisers seem to have stumbled upon an unusual way of celebrating Dasara. Alongside the towering effigies of Ravana, Kumbhakarna and Meghnad, they propose to burn a 30-foot cockroach, reportedly aimed at the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP). Now, that is an interesting choice of company. But is it fair to the villains of the…
Vinay Rao India and West Indies played at Uppal on 14 October with the United Nations Environment Programme in Hyderabad’s corner. The Hyderabad Cricket Association also came away with a United Nations certificate for how it ran the stadium. Cricket at Uppal usually makes news for what happens in the middle. The India vs West…
Shrikant Rao The global heavy mining truck industry has officially fractured here in the iron-red murrum—the punishingly abrasive, gravelly laterite soil peculiar to Mysore—where the sudden arrival of BEML Limited’s new BH60-EV battery-electric mining dump truck has forced long-standing market leaders to completely rethink their fleet projections. This transition is governed not by green optics,…
Lakshmanrao Upadhayula The hymns attributed to the sage Vishwamitra in the Tristubh and Gayatri metres of the Rigveda reveal a profound vision in which devotion, wisdom, and cosmic order unite in perfect harmony. Every mantra is more than a prayer; it is a disciplined expression of consciousness that seeks to align human life with the…
