New Delhi, 24/8: Former Indian owner Shikhar Dhawan has announced his retirement from international and domestic cricket through a social media post on Saturday morning. Dhawan’s last competitive game was in April, leading Punjab Kings in IPL 2024. He retires with 24 hundreds (17 in ODIs and seven in Tests) across 269 international matches. …
Tripura, 24/8: Two Tripura State Rifles jawans lost their lives while saving flood-hit persons in the state that has been experiencing rampant rains. Chief Minister Manik Saha expressed his condolences over the demise of Ashish Bose (TSR Jawan from Belonia) & Chiranjit Dey (from Indranagar). “My deepest condolences to their families & friends. May their…
New Delhi, 23/8: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Friday informed a Delhi court it has obtained sanction to prosecute Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and AAP MLA Durgesh Pathak in a corruption case related to the alleged excise scam.The submission was made before Special Judge Kaveri Baweja, who posted the matter for hearing on…
Mumbai, 23/8: In view of a Bombay High Court ruling, Nationalist Congress Party (SP) president Sharad Pawar on Friday appealed for withdrawal of Saturday’s Maharashtra bandh called by the opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) The call for the bandh on Saturday (August 24) was given by the opposition alliance, of which the NCP (SP) is…
Kyiv, 23/8: India and Ukraine on Friday inked four agreements following talks between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. The agreements would provide for cooperation in areas of agriculture, food industry, medicine, culture and humanitarian assistance, officials said
Bhubaneswar, 23/8: In a big development, Odisha government has decided to include around 79.14 lakh women from 65.25 lakh families under Subhadra Yojana .Subhadra Yojana was one of the major poll promises of the BJP. According to the SOP ,beneficiary list prepared by the Women and Child Development (W&CD) department, 79,14,491 women, who have…
Kathmandu:,23/8 At least 14 people were killed after an Indian-registered passenger bus plunged into the Marsyangdi River in central Nepal on Friday, according to media reports. The bus from Gorakhpur was heading toward the capital Kathmandu from the resort town of Pokhara when it drove off the highway in Aaina Pahara in the Tanahun district….
New Delhi, 23/8: Markets regulator SEBI has barred industrialist Anil Ambani, 24 other entities, including former key officials of Reliance Home Finance from the securities market for five years for diversion of funds from the company SEBI has imposed a penalty of Rs 25 crore on Ambani and restrained him from being associated with the…
Chicago, 23/8: US Vice President Kamala Harris, who is of Indian and African heritage, on Thursday night accepted the nomination at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, becoming the second woman to do so for the Democratic Party. At the convention, Harris remembered her mother Shyamala Gopalan and said that she misses her every day,…
New Delhi, 22/8: The Delhi High Court on Thursday directed an ‘X’ user to apologise to Alt-News co-founder Mohammad Zubair for his “offensive” comment against him on the social media platform. Observing that people should be temperate on the social media and apologise if they get “carried away”, Justice Anup Jairam Bhambhani asked the user…
