Mumbai, 15/11: It’s not Manchester, it’s Mumbai. It’s not 2019, it’s 2023. But most of the characters of that compelling play, performed at the World Cup theatre four years ago, are back. Only, this time, the blustery English background will be replaced by thepalpable gravity of the Wankhede stadium and the circumstances. It’s not the last…
New Delhi, 14/11: The Election Commission on Tuesday issued a show-cause notice to the Aam Aadmi Party for alleged disparaging remarks made against the prime minister on its social media handle and asked it to respond to the charge of model code violation by November 16. The notice has been issued to the national convener…
Subarnapur, 14/11: An accident took place in the village of Kainful under the Sonepur block of Subarnapur district. An old woman died after falling into an open deep bore well. The dead woman was Dukhi Negi (70) of Gobindapur village. According to the information, the deceased had come to Kasurpali village near Kainful village of…
Bangalore, 14/11: The Bangalore Electricity Supply Company on Tuesday registered a case against former Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy after the Congress in Karnataka accused him of drawing power illegally to illuminate his J P Nagar residence here for Deepavali. The case was registered by the Vigilance Wing of BESCOM at its Vigilance Police Station…
Mumbai, 14/11: Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) president Sharad Pawar on Tuesday said he does not want to hide his caste and that he has never done politics using it as a medium. Pawar’s statement comes days after a purported certificate showing him as belonging to the Other Backward Classes (OBC) category went viral on social…
New Delhi, 14/11: Opposition parties on Tuesday attacked the Modi government for appointing Janardhan Chaudhary as a member of the Centre’s Expert Appraisal Committees (EAC) under the Environment Ministry, saying he is an employee of the Adani Group. Chaudhary was appointed in September to the all-important panel, which clears the country’s power projects, including those…
Islamabad, 14/11: Former prime minister Imran Khan, who is already imprisoned in Adiala Jail in the cipher case, has also been arrested by Pakistan’s top anti-corruption office in the Al-Qadir Trust case and Toshakhana gifts case, media reports said on Tuesday. The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) arrested Khan on Monday after Accountability Court Judge Mohammad…
New Delhi, 14/11: Air pollution worsened in Delhi amid unfavourable meteorological conditions on Tuesday morning and a relief is unlikely soon. Based on data provided by nine out of the 40 monitoring stations in Delhi, the capital’s air quality index stood at 363 — very poor category– at 8 am. Rest of the monitoring stations…
Uttarkashi, 14/11: Rescuers at the under-construction tunnel collapse site here Tuesday initiated the process of inserting large-diameter mild steel pipes through the rubble using an auger machine to rescue the 40 workers trapped for two days now, officials said. The pipes will be pushed in using the horizontal drilling equipment to create an escape passage…
Beijing, 13/11: Chinese experts have sounded an alert about the relapse of Covid-19 infections during the current winter season and asked elderly and vulnerable populations to get vaccinated. The Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (Chinese CDC) shows that a total of 209 new severe Covid-19 cases and 24 deaths caused by Covid-19 were…
