Kolkata, 5/11: Amid allegations of black marketing of tickets for Sunday’s World Cup cricket match between India and South Africa at Eden Gardens, Kolkata Police issued a notice to BCCI president Roger Binny seeking information on ticket sales for the event, a senior officer said. The notice, which was issued late on Saturday evening, asked…
Kathmandu, 5/11: A municipality in the epicentre of Friday’s deadly earthquake in Nepal’s Jajarkot district reported no death from the tremor even though at least 157 people were killed in other parts of the district and neighbouring Rukum West, according to a media report. According to the National Earthquake Monitoring and Research Centre, a 6.4…
Mumbai, 5/11: Maharashtra is in turmoil. The Maratha quota issue has been exhumed before two crucial elections—the Assembly and the Lok Sabha—and the result has been predictable. Street protests raged for days, a politician’s house was set afire, and a couple of demonstrators died by suicide. Caught flat-footed, the ruling government came up with garden-variety…
New Delhi, 5/11: All primary schools in the national capital will remain shut till November 10 in view of rising pollution levels in the city, Delhi Education Minister Atishi announced on Sunday. For classes 6 to 12, schools have the option of teaching online. “As pollution levels continue to remain high, primary schools in Delhi…
New Delhi, 4/11: Pakistan defeated New Zealand by 21 runs via DLS method in the ICC World Cup match at Bengaluru’s M Chinnaswamy Stadium. Sent in to bat first, New Zealand scored a whopping total of 401/6, with Rachin Ravindra hitting a century and captain Kane Williamson too playing a good knock of 95 off…
New Delhi, 4/11: Union Minister Anurag Thakur on Saturday said the probe agencies will not spare anyone in the Delhi Excise Policy case including Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao’s daughter K Kavitha, whose name was mentioned in a charge sheet filed by the ED. Dismissing allegations that the BJP has a tacit understanding with…
Bhubaneswar, 4/11: Odia film producer Sanjay Nayak, popularly known as Tutu Nayak, has been arrested by the Kharvelnagar police for misbehaving with a woman journalist. Tutu Nayak was arrested after being quizzed at the Kharvel Nagar Police Station this afternoon for allegedly slapping and abusing a woman journalist Debasmita Rout, informed Zone-2 ACP Manas Gadnayak….
Punjab, 4/11: Nine heavily armed terrorists attacked a Pakistan Air Force training base in Punjab province early Saturday and all of them were ‘sent to hell’, the army said, a day after 17 soldiers were killed in three separate terror strikes in the country. The Mianwali Training Air Base of Pakistan Air Force was attacked…
New Delhi, 4/11: At least 128 people were killed and several others injured when a powerful 6.4 magnitude earthquake jolted western Nepal’s remote mountainous region just before midnight on Friday. According to the National Earthquake Monitoring and Research Centre, the earthquake with an epicentre in Jajarkot district was recorded at 11:47 pm. The impact of…
Mumbai, 4/11: Indian all-rounder Hardik Pandya has been ruled out of World Cup 2023, after he failed to recover from his ankle injury, announced ICC. He will be replaced by Prasidh Krishna in the India Squad for the remainder of the World Cup.
