Kolkata: Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) on Friday announced the appointment of New Zealand cricket legend Tim Southee as the team’s bowling coach for the upcoming season of the Indian Premier League (IPL). Southee represented his country in 107 Test matches, 161 ODIs, and 126 T20 Internationals, taking 776 wickets. Southee was a part of the…
Patna: Bihar Congress chief Rajesh Ram on Friday raised doubts over the “integrity” of the counting process even as Election Commission trends placed the NDA comfortably ahead of the Mahagathbandhan. The Election Commission’s numbers delivered a sweeping early advantage to the ruling alliance. By late morning, the NDA had crossed the 166-seat mark, while the…
Patna: The ruling NDA was leading in 166 seats, surpassing the majority mark of 122, in early trends as counting was underway for the Bihar assembly polls on Friday morning, according to the Election Commission. The opposition INDIA bloc was way behind, leading in 59 of the 243 seats in the assembly. The tally is…
New York/Washington: An American lawmaker will be introducing a bill to “eliminate” the H-1B visa programme and take away the pathway to citizenship that it offers, forcing individuals to “return home” when their visa expires. “My dear fellow Americans, I’m introducing a bill to eliminate the H-1B visa programme, which has been riddled with fraud…
United Nations: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar met UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres here and said he valued the UN chief’s assessment of the current global order and its implications for multilateralism and also thanked him for consistent support for India’s growth. “Good to meet with UNSG @antonioguterres in New York today. Valued his assessment…
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday offered tributes to India’s first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru on his birth anniversary. “Tributes to former Prime Minister, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru Ji on the occasion of his birth anniversary,” Modi said in a post on X. Nehru was born on this date in 1889 in Allahabad in…
Srinagar: The house of Dr Umar Nabi, who drove the explosive-laden car involved in the Delhi blast, has been demolished by security forces in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pulwama district, officials said on Friday. The demolition was carried out during the intervening night of Thursday and Friday, they said. The car blast near the Red Fort…
Patna: The ruling NDA was ahead in 111 assembly seats, as compared to 33 of the opposition INDIA bloc, according to trends available on the Election Commission’s website. The BJP was leading in 48 seats, the JD(U) in 44, LJP (Ram Vilas) in 13 and HAM in three. The RJD was leading in 23 seats,…
Dhaka: Bangladesh overnight issued an ordinance in line with the interim government chief Professor Muhammad Yunus’ proposed referendum on a political charter, drawing immediate rebuttal from jurists who called it “unconstitutional”. President Muhammad Shahabuddin, on late Thursday, signed into ordinance the “July Charter Implementation Order” while the document was drafted by the Yunus-headed National Consensus…
Patna: Elaborate security arrangements have been made for Friday’s counting of votes polled in the Bihar assembly elections, across 46 centres in 38 districts of the state, officials said. Schools in Patna will remain closed on Friday in view of the counting exercise, they said. Bihar had registered a historic voter turnout of 67.13 per…
