Lords, 10/7: England skipper Ben Stokes won the toss and opted to bat first in the third match of the Tendulkar-Anderson Trophy at the Lord’s Cricket Ground. The five-match series is level at 1-1 after England won the first match at Headingley before India won a Test for the first time at Edgbaston. As expected…
Vadodara, 10/7: In a sad piece of development, the death toll in the collapse of a bridge over the Mahisagar river in Gujarat’s Vadodara district has gone up to 15 with the recovery of four more bodies,according to the official. Several vehicles plunged into the Mahisagar river after a portion of the four-decade-old bridge, connecting…
Hyderabad: The Enforcement Directorate has filed a money laundering case to look into the role of more than two dozen celebrities, including actors like Vijay Deverakonda, Rana Daggubati and Prakash Raj, apart from some social media influencers and YouTubers in Telengana. These outlets are alleged to have generated “illicit” funds worth crores of rupees through…
New Delhi,10/7: An earthquake of magnitude 4.4 struck near Jhajjar in Haryana on Thursday morning, sending tremors across the Delhi-NCR region. The epicentre was 3 km northeast of Jhajjar and 51 km west of Delhi. The earthquake struck at a depth of 10 km at 9:04 am, the National Centre for Seismology said.
Washington, 10/7: President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that the US would impose a 50 per cent tariff on all imports from Brazil after a public spat this week with his Brazilian counterpart who called him an unwanted “emperor.” In a letter, Trump linked the tariffs to Brazil’s treatment of former President Jair Bolsonaro who…
Bengaluru: Royal Challengers Sports Private Limited (RCSPL), which owns the Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) IPC team, has moved the Karnataka High Court, challenging certain observations made in a Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) order. On July 1, the CAT’s Bengaluru bench, while quashing the suspension order of senior IPS officer Vikash Kumar Vikash, had held that…
Windhoek: Namibia will roll out the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) later this year, it was announced on Wednesday following talks between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Namibian President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah that focused on imparting a new momentum to the bilateral series. The Modi-Ndaitwah meeting primarily focused on bolstering bilateral cooperation in areas such as digital…
Dubai: India captain Shubman Gill on Wednesday broke into the top-10 of the ICC men’s Test batting rankings for the first time in his career after a record-breaking performance against England at Edgbaston. Gill smashed 269 and 161 in the game — becoming only the second player in history to score more than 150 in…
Jaipur: A Jaguar aircraft of the IAF crashed in Rajasthan’s Churu district on Wednesday, leading to the death of the two pilots of the twin-seater aircraft. In a statement shortly after the crash, the IAF said, “An IAF Jaguar Trainer aircraft met with an accident during a routine training mission and crashed near Churu in…
Bhubaneswar, 9/7: Senior BJP leader Jagannath Pradhan was granted bail Tuesday by the Khurda District Sessions Court in a case related to the alleged assault of Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) Additional Commissioner Ratnakar Sahoo. The bail hearing of BJP leader Jagannath Pradhan, currently lodged in Ward No. 29 of the Jharpada Special Jail as an…
