Amaravati: Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu has congratulated the Indian cricket team for clinching a 2-1 series victory over South Africa with a commanding nine-wicket win. The chief minister lauded the players for their skill, determination and teamwork, noting that their exceptional performance brought pride and joy to cricket fans across the country….
Panaji: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday spoke to Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant after a nightclub blaze in the coastal state claimed 23 lives. “The fire mishap in Arpora, Goa, is deeply saddening. My thoughts are with all those who have lost their loved ones. May the injured recover at the earliest,” Modi posted…
Visakhapatnam: Indian batting mainstay Virat Kohli on Saturday said he is “feeling really free” mentally after producing another match-winning effort to help India clinch the three-match ODI series, in which he finished as the leading run-scorer with 302 runs. Kohli scored a rapid 45-ball 65 not out in the third ODI after hitting centuries in…
Visakhapatnam: South Africa head coach Shukri Conrad on Saturday wholeheartedly admitted that the use of the word ‘grovel’ took the sheen away from his team’s landmark Test victory over India, but maintained that he intended no “malice” with that term. Conrad made the controversial remark after the fourth day of the second Test at Guwahati…
Panaji: At least 23 persons were killed in a blaze at a nightclub in North Goa following a cylinder blast late Saturday night, police said. Most of the dead were the club’s kitchen workers, and included three women, Chief Minister Pramod Sawant said. There were “three to four tourists” among those killed, he added. Sawant,…
New Delhi: A cold wave swept through the northern states of Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Delhi, Rajasthan, Punjab, and Haryana on Saturday, with a few places in hill states registering sub-zero temperatures. The night temperatures in Kashmir dropped several degrees below the freezing point with a thick layer of fog engulfing parts of the…
Colombo: Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake on Saturday said his government has been able to restore public life to normalcy within a very short period after Cyclone Ditwah devastated the island nation and took over 600 lives. Dissanayake’s claim came a day after he announced a massive relief package to all those affected by…
Gurugram: Skill development centres, polytechnic diploma courses, and ITI-level vocational programmes were launched for inmates inside various jails in Haryana on Saturday. Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant inaugurated these initiatives from the district prison Bhondsi in Gurugram under the project ‘Empowering Lives Behind Bars, Real Change: The New Paradigm of Correctional Justice’. As…
New Delhi: Authorities will take appropriate action in the matter of IndiGo flight disruptions depending on the inquiry committee’s findings, a senior government official said on Saturday. As flight disruptions continued for the fifth straight day, Civil Aviation Minister K Rammohan Naidu, along with senior civil aviation ministry officials, held a “serious meeting” with IndiGo…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s latest diplomatic engagement with Russian President Vladimir Putin has once again reaffirmed a geopolitical truth that many in the West find uncomfortable: India’s partnership with Russia is not a legacy of the past but a strategic necessity of the future. Far from being an emotional throwback to Cold War alignments, it…
