NEW DELHI: Former Australia captain Ricky Ponting has expressed disappointment over the 20 percent match fee fine imposed on Indian batting star Virat Kohli for his altercation with debutant Sam Konstas, arguing that the punishment handed down by the ICC “is not harsh enough.”Konstas’ debut was a memorable affair, as the 19-year-old not only impressed…
DHAKA: Seventeen houses of the minority Christian community were set ablaze in Notun Tongjhiri Tripura Para in Bangladesh’s Chittagong Hill Tracts on Christmas eve. Villagers told police that “unidentified” people torched their houses, but Bangladesh govt, citing preliminary investigation, claimed the arson could be linked to a “long-running rivalry between two groups of the (same)…
China has approved the construction of the world’s largest dam, stated to be the planet’s biggest infrastructure project, on the Brahmaputra in Tibet, close to the Indian border, raising concerns in riparian states India and Bangladesh.The project is set to come up in the lower reaches of Yarlung Zangbo river, the Tibetan name for Brahmaputra,…
Jagdish Bhagwati, the influential economist who’s taught at MIT and Columbia in the US for over half a century, once described Indians as the new Jews in America, successful in all fields except the mafia. He may have meant it in a lighter vein, but there’s lots of data to back up what he said….
NEW DELHI: Aam Aadmi Party on Thursday said it would mobilise the constituents of INDIA bloc to get Congress evicted from the grouping if the main opposition party does not take action against its general secretary Ajay Maken, who, the party claimed, had dubbed Arvind Kejriwal anti-national.“Ajay Maken has crossed all limits by calling Kejriwal…
NEW DELHI: It was likely his darkest hour as PM – the shine of popular approbation, a key factor in Congress-led alliance’s 2009 election win, had worn off, to be replaced by ominous clouds with nary a silver lining in sight. But Singh, then at the helm of UPA-2’s scandals-hit govt, where ministerial bickerings were…
Nikki Haley, Laura Loomer, Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy Amid growing criticism of Sriram Krishnan’s controversial stance on immigration, Republican leader Vivek Ramaswamy took to social media to defend the hiring trends in tech, emphasizing cultural factors over intellectual capabilities. In a lengthy post on social media, Ramaswamy defended the hiring of immigrant engineers in the…
It was June 1991. Manmohan Singh had just returned to Delhi, after attending a conference in the Netherlands, and had gone to bed. Late that night, Singh’s son-in-law, Vijay Tankha, took a phone call. The voice on the other end was that of PC Alexander, a confidante of PV Narasimha Rao. Alexander urged Vijay to…
NEW DELHI: The number of states/UTs falling with high malaria burden in India has come down from 10 in 2015 to two in 2023, latest data shared by the health ministry shows. A state/UT is considered to have ‘high burden’, also referred to as category 3, if it has more than one malaria case per…
HYDERABAD: Some of the biggest names in the Telugu film industry met Telangana chief minister A Revanth Reddy on Thursday in a bid to end their perceived standoff with the state govt over the Pusha-2 stampede. The CM assured the 40-odd producers, directors and actors of full support and sought their cooperation to develop Hyderabad…
