Jasprit Bumrah and Rishabh Pant. (Photo by Quinn Rooney/Getty Images) NEW DELHI: India pace spearhead and now captain Jasprit Bumrah is a nightmare not only for batsmen all over the world but also to his team’s wicketkeepers.Ahead of the second day’s play in the fifth Test between India and Australia in Sydney on Saturday, 7Cricket…
NEW DELHI: PM Modi launched a scathing attack on AAP on Friday, calling it “AAPda” (Hindi for disaster), virtually setting the tone for an aggressive and high-pitched campaign for the assembly elections to be held in the capital in February.Speaking at an event in Ashok Vihar while inaugurating various development initiatives, the PM gave the…
NEW DELHI: Official sources have questioned the valuation of the diamond gifted by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Jill Biden, wife of US President Joe Biden.MEA sources pointed out that the 7.5-carat diamond the PM gifted to Jill Biden was grown in a lab which is much cheaper than natural ones.Sources said lab-grown diamonds cost…
VISAKHAPATNAM: India’s coastline expanded by almost half in just over five decades – from 7,516km in 1970 to 11,098km in 2023-24 – with states like Bengal, Gujarat and Goa adding significantly to their shoreline while Puducherry’s shrunk by 10.4%, according to an MHA report based on new terms of reference for measuring coastal accretion and…
NEW DELHI: There will be no age-gating for children to join social media platforms in India, but those under 18 will require “verifiable consent” of parents, say draft rules of the digital personal data protection (DPDP) Act released late Friday by the IT ministry. Data fiduciaries – under which the draft rules club e-commerce, social…
NEW DELHI: The govt has lodged a strong protest with China over the recent creation of two counties in Hotan prefecture in its northwest, saying parts of these “so-called counties” fall in the Union Territory of Ladakh and India has never accepted the illegal Chinese occupation of Indian territory in this area.The creation of counties…
KOCHI/KASARAGOD: A CBI court on Friday sentenced 10 accused to life imprisonment and four others, including former CPM MLA from Uduma KV Kunhiraman, to five years in jail for the murder of two Youth Congress workers at Periya in Kerala’s Kasaragod in February 2019. The court had found them guilty on Saturday.The 10 accused were…
NEW DELHI: Counting infrastructure development and enhancement of tourism facilities in Andaman and Nicobar Islands and Lakshadweep among the key priorities of Modi govt, home minister Amit Shah on Friday emphasised upon achieving 100% renewable energy generation in the two island groups through installation of solar panels and windmills.While reviewing the progress of development projects…
NEW DELHI: Indicating the start of train operations between Jammu and Srinagar in the next couple of weeks, the railways has notified the timetable of one Vande Bharat and another two mail/express trains for the route. The single-trip Vande Bharat train on the route will take three hours and 10 minutes, while the other two…
NEW DELHI: The UAPA Tribunal of Justice Anoop Kumar Mendiratta, a sitting judge of Delhi HC, Friday confirmed Centre’s July 8 notification declaring terrorist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun-led Sikhs for Justice (SFJ) as an unlawful organisation for a period of five years.SFJ was declared an unlawful organisation in 2019, when there were 11 FIRs registered against…
