Sydney, 15/5:Swashbuckling former all-rounder Andrew Symonds has been killed in a car crash, Cricket Australia said Sunday, in another tragic blow for the sport after the recent deaths of fellow greats Shane Warne and Rod Marsh. The 46-year-old, who played 26 Tests and 198 one-day internationals for Australia from 1998 to 2009, was involved in…
New Delhi, 14/5: Sitting outside Sanjay Gandhi Memorial Hospital in Mangolpuri area here since Friday night, Suman (name changed) breaks down every now and then as she anxiously awaits an update about the whereabouts of her elder daughter Pooja (19). Accompanying the middle-aged woman is her younger daughter Pinky (18), her eyes also…
New Delhi, 14/9: The CBI has booked seven suspected punters in connection with two separate cases related to alleged fixing of 2019 Indian Premier League matches “based on inputs” from Pakistan, officials said Saturday. The central agency has started a country-wide probe and was carrying out searches at seven locations in Delhi, Hyderabad, Jaipur…
New Delhi, 14/5: The Congress is likely to bring in a measure to ensure 50 per cent representation to Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, OBCs and minorities at all levels of the party organisation. A decision on this has been taken by the panel on social justice and empowerment formed by party chief Sonia…
Tripura, 14/5: Tripura Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb on Saturday said he has submitted his resignation to Governor SN Arya. Deb made the announcement after meeting the governor at the Raj Bhavan. He went to New Delhi and met Union Home Minister Amit Shah and BJP president JP Nadda on Thursday for a…
New Delhi,14/5: With the state of Indian economy remaining a “cause of extreme concern”, Congress on Saturday said a “reset of the economic policies” is necessary and expressed hope that it will be able to defeat the “hype” being created by Narendra Modi the way it overcame the ‘India Shining’ campaign. Former Finance…
Chandigarh, 14/5:Good luck and goodbye Congress”, former PPCC chief Sunil Jakhar said on Saturday while announcing his decision to quit the Congress that last month removed him from all party positions for alleged anti-party activities. The disgruntled leader, whose decision comes during the party’s three-day ‘Chintan Shivir’ in Udaipur, went live on his Facebook…
New Delhi, 14/5:In the backdrop of spiralling prices, India has banned the export of wheat with immediate effect. In a late Friday night notification, the ministry of commerce said the exports of the commodity will only be allowed on the basis of permission already granted to other countries to meet their food security…
Delhi, 14/5: Charred human remains were found on Saturday on the second floor of the building in outer Delhi’s Mundka area where a massive fire broke out a day back, Delhi Fire Service officials said. Twenty-seven people have died so far in the blaze that ripped through the four-storey building on Friday. The…
Ahmedabad, 14/5: In what could be one of the biggest setbacks for Gujarat Congress before the Assembly polls, its state working president Hardik Patel, the poster boy of the Patidar agitation movement, is said to be resigning from the party soon. Sources close to him said that “the impasse between Hardik and Congress…
