CHANDIGARH: Congress waited until midnight Wednesday to declare a list of 40 candidates for the Haryana polls, seemingly to minimise the chances of those who missed the bus filing nominations on their own before the Thursday deadline. The party, too, has only hours to decide who to give the remaining 9 seats to.Congress issued its…
The interim govt of Bangladesh has “urged” the Hindu community to halt their Durga puja-related activities, specially playing any musical instrument five minutes before azaan and during namaaz. “Such activities need to cease during offering namaaz, and the pause will have to be followed from five minutes prior to azaan,” home affairs adviser Lt. Gen…
Australia defeated England by 28 runs in the first T20 international at Southampton on Wednesday. They now lead 1-0 in the three-match series.Australia batted first and scored 179 all out. Travis Head was the top performer with 59 runs off 23 balls, hitting eight boundaries and four sixes. England’s spinners Liam Livingstone and Adil Rashid…
GUWAHATI: IIT-Guwahati students temporarily halted on Wednesday their agitation over a 21-year-old 3rd-year BTech student’s death after the dean of academic affairs resigned. The institute’s director, Devendra Jalihal, assured students that their demands for the resignation of several more faculty members, including the hostel affairs board vice-chairperson and the associate deans of student and academic…
NEW DELHI: Faced with a huge financial burden caused by the ruling of a nine-judge bench of Supreme Court enabling states to collect royalty on extracted minerals and to levy tax on mineral-bearing land, Centre has sought a review, pointing out several “errors apparent in the judgment”.Interestingly, the Centre has roped in Madhya Pradesh as…
North Korea launched an unidentified missile off its east coast on Thursday, South Korea‘s military reported. This follows a similar incident in May when North Korea fired an unidentified ballistic missile into the East Sea, also known as the Sea of Japan. The projectile from May reportedly fell into the sea, according to the Japanese…
NEW DELHI: The Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) on Wednesday suspended the licence to manufacture and market PresVu, an eye drop that claims to reduce the need for reading glasses in people with Presbyopia – a common age-related problem that makes it difficult to focus on close objects.Govt sources said the action has been…
NEW DELHI: Questioning the kind of education imparted in madrassas and also the way of their functioning, including permitting corporal punishment for children, National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) has told Supreme Court that comprehensive education is not provided there and it is against the provisions of Right to Education (RTE) Act.Responding to…
INDORE: A night drive by two young Army officers and their female friends ended in horror when they were attacked by a group of men who gang-raped one of the women at gunpoint near the historic Jam Gate, 50km from Indore, in the wee hours of Wednesday.Additional SP Rupesh Dwivedi said on Wednesday night that…
MUMBAI: The current frenzy in the IPO market in India, Bajaj Group reputation and the strong fundamentals of Bajaj Housing Finance combined to set a few new records for the primary market on Wednesday.As the Rs 6,560-crore IPO for Bajaj Housing Finance closed in the evening, there were about 89 lakh investors who had shown…
