Bhubaneswar, 25/9: The Odisha Assembly witnessed pandemonium on Monday as opposition BJP members protested the rejection of their notice for a discussion on the governance style of the BJD dispensation. BJD members also raised the issue of alleged non-maintenance of the national highway connecting Cuttack and Sambalpur. The Speaker first adjourned the House for one…
Beijing, 25/9:The Indian women’s team defeated Sri Lanka in the final of the Hangzhou Asian Games cricket competition on Monday to win India’s second gold in the ongoing continental event. Batting first, Indian team led by skipper Harmanpreet Kaur could only muster 116/7 in their 20 overs. Indian bowlers, however, held the Sri Lankan batting…
New Delhi, 25/9: The Supreme Court on Monday raised questions over the quality of education being imparted in schools, terming the incident related to a teacher making a communal remark and asking students to slap a Muslim boy in Muzaffarnagar, as the worst kind of punishment. The court ordered the Uttar Pradesh government to depute…
Ottawa, 25/9: Terming the relationship with India as “important”, Canada’s Defence Minister Bill Blair on Sunday said that his country will continue to pursue partnerships like the Indo-Pacific strategy while the investigation of the killing of a Sikh separatist leader continues. Tensions flared between India and Canada following Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s explosive allegations…
Beijing, 25/9:A confident Indian 10m air rifle team led by teenage world champion Rudrankksh Patil gave the country its first gold medal at the Asian Games, securing the top place on the podium with a world record score here on Monday. The trio of Rudrankksh, Olympian Divyansh Singh Panwar and Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar aggregated…
Kanpur, 24/9: Rajasthan’s Bharatpur and Uttar Pradesh’s Mathura have replaced Jharkhand’s Jamtara and Haryana’s Nuh as the infamous hotspots of cybercrime in India, according to a new study by an IIT Kanpur-incubated start-up. The study also revealed that just the top 10 districts collectively contribute to 80 per cent of cybercrimes in the country. The…
Mumbai, 24/9: Maharashtra Deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis pushed away a man pleading for the state government’s assistance in dealing with the aftermath of the Nagpur floods on Sunday. Shiv Sena UBT leader Priyanka Chaturvedi posted a video of the incident on X, writing, “Arrogance of power makes one blind to people’s hardships. Look how unconstitutional…
New Delhi, 24/9: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has said that it is still a world of “double standards” and those countries which are occupying positions of influence are resisting the pressure to change and those with historical influence have weaponised a lot of those capabilities. Jaishankar was speaking at a Ministerial Session titled ‘South…
Chillika, 24/9: The Passing Out Parade (POP) of the second batch of Agniveers is scheduled at INS Chilka on 26 Sep 23. The POP marks the successful completion of training of close to 2200 Agniveers including 452 women Agniveers undergoing training at Chilka. VAdm MA Hampiholi PVSM, AVSM, NM, Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief Southern Naval Command…
Beijing, 24/9: China denying visas to three Indian athletes from Arunachal Pradesh is ‘discriminatory’ and against the Olympic Charter which is not acceptable to India, Union Minister Anurag Thakur has said. The northeastern state is an integral part of India and would continue to remain so, the Union Minister for Information and Broadcasting and Youth…
