Mohammad Rizwan during a heated argument with Heinrich Klaasen. (Video Grab) Pakistan secured an emphatic 81-run victory against South Africa in the second ODI at Newlands, Cape Town, clinching the three-match series with an unassailable 2-0 lead. While the contributions of veterans Babar Azam (73) and Mohammad Rizwan (80) were pivotal in setting a competitive…
A fiery truck collision involving a chemical-laden truck disrupted the Jaipur-Ajmer highway on Friday morning. Several trucks caught fire near a petrol pump, causing burn injuries to an unspecified number of people. Ambulances transported the injured to hospitals while firefighters battled the blaze. Traffic on the highway came to a standstill as authorities worked to…
Nike‘s results beat modest estimates on Thursday and its shares jumped briefly, but the company soon dashed investor hopes and sent shares lower when a top executive predicted revenues would fall by double digits in the third quarter. Nike’s new CEO Elliot Hill warned of short-term pain as the embattled sportswear seller works to revive…
NEW DELHI: Former Karnataka minister and BJP MLC CT Ravi, who was arrested Thursday on charges of making ‘derogatory’ remarks against minister Laxmi Hebbalkar, alleged a conspiracy to murder him through a false complaint. The BJP leader also alleged negligence by the police, who he said had not yet registered a complaint or a zero…
A spending bill supported by Donald Trump was rejected in the US House of Representatives, as numerous Republicans defied the president-elect. The package failed by a vote of 174-235 just hours after it was hastily assembled by Republican leaders seeking to comply with Trump’s demands. A prior bipartisan deal was scuttled after Trump and the…
Despite strong backing from President-elect Donald Trump and his billionaire ally Elon Musk, the bill faltered due to significant opposition within the Republican ranks. The US House of Representatives on Thursday rejected a Republican-led spending bill that would have provided a temporary solution to avert a looming government shutdown, leaving lawmakers scrambling as a Friday…
NEW DELHI: The Centre has circulated a draft legislation to ban lending by unregulated entities, including by platforms, with violators facing imprisonment of up to seven years. Lenders, who harass and use unlawful means for recovery, face up to 10 years in jail, with those promoting such lending facing a term of up to five…
VARANASI: Shri Kashi Vidwat Parishad (SKVP), a body of Varanasi scholars, said Thursday that initial research on a temple that lay closed for decades in communally sensitive Madanpura’s Devnathpura locality indicated it was indeed of Siddheshwar Mahadev.However, SKVP general secretary Ram Narain Dwivedi said Thursday, the scholars will conduct a physical survey of the temple…
NEW DELHI: Reserve Bank of India on Thursday flagged its concern over several states announcing farm loan waivers, free power to agriculture and households, free transport and cash transfers to women and youth, cautioning that these spends will lower the funds available to undertake expenditure on building social and physical infrastructure as well as research…
GURDASPUR: Terrorists of a pro-Khalistan outfit lobbed a grenade at an abandoned police post near the border town of Kalanaur in Punjab’s Gurdaspur district late Wednesday, making it the fifth such attack targeting a police station or post in less than a month.Banned Khalistan Zindabad Force claimed responsibility for the attack through a post on…
