With the announcement by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of his intention to step down once his successor is chosen on March 9; the focus is on several members of his Liberal Party who could emerge as the future leader and Canada’s new Prime Minister. Anita Anand, who is of Indian origin and the high-profile…
Shoaib Akhtar and Muhammad Jawad Ullah (Creimas Photo) NEW DELHI: “Only 8 runs were needed in the last over. There was a lot of pressure because defending just 8 runs in the last over is very difficult. They had 2 wickets remaining,” UAE southpaw Muhammad Jawad Ullah recalled. Just a fortnight ago, he was tasked…
LUCKNOW: An incident occurred at a railway station in Kannauj when an under-construction lintel collapsed, trapping several workers under the debris.G Kanpur Range, Jogendra Kumar, told TOI that all recused labourers are safe and undergoing treatment. “No death as yet,” he said. The workers were engaged in beautification work at the station when the mishap…
A powerful winter storm sweeping through the southern United States caused widespread travel disruptions on Friday, with over 3,000 flights cancelled and thousands more delayed, according to airlines and the flight tracking website FlightAware.Delta Airlines was particularly impacted, citing a “worse-than-expected mix of winter weather” that forced a temporary shutdown of all five runways at…
Activists of Hindu Jagaran Mancha participate in a rally to protest over arrest of Chinmoy Krishna Das by the Bangladesh police, in Kolkata (File photo: PTI) Majority of the attacks on minorities in Bangladesh that took place since Sheikh Hasina’s ouster were ‘not communally motivated — rather, they were political in nature’, according to a…
NEW DELHI: Bharatiya Janata party on Saturday trained guns at Aam Aadmi Party, accusing it of committing liquor scam which led to huge revenue loss to the stateCiting the leaked pages of the CAG report, BJP said that the excise policy brought by the AAP-led Delhi government inflicted a loss of over RS 2,026 crore…
NEW DELHI: Congress MP Gaurav Gogoi called on Prime Minister Narendra Modi to initiate a Special Investigation Team (SIT) probe into the mining tragedy in Assam’s Dima Hasao district, where four people lost their lives.Gogoi criticised the ongoing issue of “illegal mining” in the state, attributing it to “weak law enforcement and local complicity.”The tragedy…
Congress MP Manish Tewari (File photo) NEW DELHI: Congress MP Manish Tewari pointed out on Saturday that the opposition alliance INDIA bloc was formed to “safeguard the soul of the country” and not merely to contest the Lok Sabha elections.His statement came amid growing concerns about the alliance’s coordination, voiced by Shiv Sena (UBT) MP…
Indians have an estimated 22,000 tonnes of gold lying in their households, equivalent to what the country would have imported in 26 years to make jewellery, bars and coins. To unleash this idle gold and help reduce imports, gold trade bodies have written to the government, urging to make the Gold Monetisation Scheme (GMS) lucrative…
Tiku Talsania, known for his iconic comic roles in movies like Andaz Apna Apna, is currently critical and in the hospital. Earlier, reports were life that the actor had suffered a massive heart attack, but now it has been revealed that he in fact, suffered a brain stroke. Rajesh Vasani, an industry veteran told us,…
