New Delhi: Huma Qureshi, known for challenging the conventional portrayal of the Hindi film heroine through projects such as “Maharani” and “Gangs of Wasseypur”, hopes that her new film “Baby Do Die Do”, a thriller about a deaf and mute assassin, leads to more such interesting roles being written for women. The actor, who has…
Thiruvananthapuram: As heavy rains continued in parts of Kerala, the IMD on Thursday issued an orange alert in three districts of the state for the day. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) issued an orange alert in the districts of Malappuram, Kozhikode and Wayanad. It also issued a yellow alert in six other districts — Ernakulam,…
New Delhi: Delhi woke up to grey skies, waterlogged roads and uprooted trees as overnight rain continued through Thursday morning, with the India Meteorological Department issuing a ‘red’ alert for the day. Safdarjung, the capital’s base weather station, recorded 72.6 mm of rainfall in the last 24 hours that ended at 8.30 am, the India…
Special Correspondent The inaugural TG20 was marketed as Telangana cricket’s biggest celebration—a showcase of emerging talent, packed stadiums and a new era for domestic cricket. The Hyderabad Cricket Association (HCA) has spared no effort in projecting the tournament as a grand success. Yet, as the league reaches its climax, one match has ‘overshadowed’ everything else—the…
Johannesburg: Several Indian companies have a proven track record in rail network, port modernisation and power systems, and the country could become a partner in the development of infrastructure projects in South Africa, India’s Consul General in Johannesburg, S Koventhan, said on Wednesday. Companies that participated in a two-day Africa Rail Expo expressed optimism about…
New Delhi: Former captain Sourav Ganguly received the perfect gift on his 54th birthday on Wednesday, becoming the latest Indian cricketer to be inducted into the ICC’s Hall of Fame following a decision taken at the global body’s annual conference in Edinburgh. Ganguly’s induction takes the number of Indians in the ICC Hall of Fame…
Dehradun: Uttarakhand on Wednesday became the country’s sixth fully literate state under the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 and the ‘ULLAS’ (Understanding Lifelong Learning for All in Society) programme, officials said. The state achieved the significant milestone after meeting the prescribed adult literacy benchmarks set by the Department of School Education and Literacy under the…
Washington: The US on Wednesday launched an investigation into alleged fraud in the H-1B and PERM work visas by several companies, with a federal labour official saying that Indian IT firm Cognizant is among the companies under scrutiny. The Office of the Inspector General (OIG) under the Department of Labour has uncovered widespread schemes in…
Ayodhya/Chitrakoot: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Wednesday defended the Ram temple trust saying the SIT probing the alleged donation theft found evidence against only eight out of nearly 150 people engaged in counting offerings, even as police took three accused into custody for further interrogation. A preliminary report of the three-member Special Investigation…
MS Shanker I have consistently supported the Election Commission’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls. As a journalist, I have written numerous editorials defending the exercise because its objective is both legitimate and essential—to remove the names of deceased persons, weed out duplicate entries, identify bogus voters, and detect illegal migrants who have found…
