Leeds,21/6: Rishabh Pant on Saturday went past MS Dhoni for the most centuries by an Indian wicketkeeper in Test cricket, bringing up his seventh on the second day of the series opener against England here. Pant struck a six off the first ball of the 100th over of India’s innings, clearing the fence off Shoaib…
New Delhi, 21/6: A Mahan Air evacuation flight carrying 256 Indian students, the majority from the Kashmir valley, landed safely at the Delhi airport on Saturday, bringing much-needed relief to their anxious families. The students, many of whom were stranded in Iran amid escalating tensions in the Middle East, appeared visibly exhausted but relieved after…
New Delhi, 21/6: Defending the decision not to share CCTV footage of polling stations on voting days, Election Commission sources on Saturday claimed that its release could provide details of who cast their votes and who did not and lead to harassment of political parties. Citing a Supreme Court judgement, sources said that the voters…
Moscow, 21/6: Russia has repeatedly told Israel that there is no evidence Iran is aiming to get nuclear weapons, Sky News Arabia on Saturday quoted Russian President Vladimir Putin as saying in an interview. Russia, as well as the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency), has never had any evidence that Iran is preparing to obtain…
New Delhi, 21/6: India will never restore the Indus Waters Treaty with Islamabad, and the water flowing to Pakistan will be diverted for internal use, Home Minister Amit Shah said in an interview with Times of India on Saturday. India put into “abeyance” its participation in the 1960 treaty, which governs the usage of the…
Islamabad, 21/6:Pakistan has nominated US President Donald Trump for 2026 Nobel Peace Prize “in recognition of his decisive diplomatic intervention and pivotal leadership during the recent India-Pakistan crisis”. The Government of Pakistan made the recommendation in a post on X soon after Trump was asked on Friday about the Nobel. Trump said he should be…
New Delhi,21/6: A flight from Mashhad, Iran, carrying 290 Indian students, mostly from Jammu and Kashmir, landed at the Delhi Airport late Friday The Indian government has launched Operation Sindhu to evacuate its nationals from the Middle Eastern country as hostilities escalate between Israel and Iran.
New Delhi, 20/6: Air India has “voluntarily decided” to continue additional pre-flight checks on all its widebody fleet for the time being “as a matter of precaution”, airline’s CEO and Managing Director Campbell Wilson has told employees in an email. His message came as the operator is slowly trying to achieve normalcy in operation after…
Guwahati,20/6: With the recovery of beef near temples triggering communal tension at several places across Assam, CM Himanta Biswa Sarma on Friday said his government would “strictly enforce” the Cattle Preservation Act 2021 that prohibited slaughter of cattle and consumption of beef within five-kilometers radius of temples and Xatras, Vaishnavite monasteries. The act passed in…
Bhubaneswar, 20/6: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said that he rejected invitation of Donald Trump to visit the United States as visiting Odisha was more important for him. Modi, who earlier sounded the poll bugle in Bihar with a rally, reached Odisha in the afternoon where he took part in a road show and…
