NEW DELHI: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) announced on Thursday that Delhi CM-designate Atishi and her cabinet will be sworn in on September 21.Lieutenant governor VK Saxena had proposed the date in a communication to the President, while also forwarding Arvind Kejriwal‘s resignation letter. Kejriwal stepped down as chief minister on Tuesday, and Atishi subsequently…
NEW DELHI: JP Nadda on Thursday hit back at Congress, calling Mallikarjun Kharge‘s letter to school BJP leaders over “violent language” used against Rahul Gandhi an effort to “polish and re-launch” their “failed product.” The BJP national president also accused the grand old party of hurling abuses at Prime Minister Narendra Modi over 110 times…
Stock market today: BSE Sensex and Nifty50, the Indian equity benchmark indices, surged in trade on Friday to hit lifetime highs following a more than expected 50 basis points rate cut by the US Federal Reserve. While BSE Sensex climbed above 83,600, Nifty50 was above 25,550. At 9:20 AM, BSE Sensex was trading at 83,636.77,…
Kamala Harris is leading over Donald Trump in what is considered as the largest by any presidential candidate since Joe Biden in a weekly poll. This comes after Taylor Swift endorsed the Democrat over the Republican candidate for the upcoming November 5 polls.A recent survey by Yahoo News/YouGov poll reveals that 61% of supporters for…
On September 19, 2007, former India allrounder Yuvraj Singh lit up the skies over Durban with a blitzkrieg in the inaugural T20 World Cup, which became part of the cricket folklore.Facing England pacer Stuart Broad, irked by Andrew Flintoff and with an eye on Dimitri Mascarenhas midway through the over, it’s a story that has…
Kolkata: The 5,000 diamond-cutting and polishing units in Surat that employ more than a million workers have slashed work hours from 12 hours to 8 hours and increased weekly holidays to three from one, thereby reducing wages, as demand from overseas markets is still very low after muted response from Chinese buyers at the recently…
NEW DELHI: Virender Sehwag, the explosive Indian opener who has amassed over 8,000 runs in both Test and ODI cricket, is renowned for his aggressive batting style. R Ashwin, India’s ace spinner, once mentioned that Sehwag does not consider off-spinners as true bowlers.Such was Sehwag’s aura that he could be singing Hindi songs while smashing…
Shark Tank judge Anupam Mittal has responded to Indigo CEO Pieter Elbers’ post celebrating two years of being in India and Indigo. In a LinkedIn post, Elbers wrote “Being a part of IndiGo and now living now in India for two years….IndiGo and this beautiful country India have indeed become a part of me. Bharat…
Salt lies in our kitchens, on our dining tables, and in our oceans. But how did it get there? The history of salt dates back to thousands of years. Over millions of years of weathering and erosion have washed minerals from rocks into rivers that eventually carry them to the sea. Volcanic activity and hydrothermal…
Zimbabwe plans to slaughter 200 elephants to provide food for communities suffering from the worst drought in four decades, wildlife authorities. The El Niño-induced drought has devastated southern Africa, leading to widespread crop failures and leaving 68 million people facing food shortages across the region.“We can confirm that we are planning to cull about 200…
