Canberra, 17/1: Tennis Australia on Tuesday banned Russian and Belarusian flags at the Australian Open after Ukraine’s ambassador demanded action when one was sighted among the crowd. The red, white and blue stripes of Russia were seen Monday during a first-round clash between Ukraine’s Kateryna Baindl and Russia’s Kamilla Rakhimova on day one….
Mumbai: Bollywood superstar Akshay Kumar took up the beach clean-up drive in Mumbai on Sunday. The video from the clean-up shows the actor at the Juhu beach in Mumbai engaging in the drive.The clean-up was organised a day after Ganpati Visarjan. Joining him in the initiative were Amruta Fadnavis, wife of Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis, and…
New Delhi: The University Grants Commission (UGC) has notified a new regulation to streamline the recognition and grant of equivalence degrees to academic qualifications obtained from foreign educational institutions. The move comes amid a growing number of Indian students returning from abroad with international credentials, often facing delays and uncertainty in getting their degrees recognized…
New Delhi, 4/9: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has summoned former Indian cricketer Shikhar Dhawan on Thursday for questioning in an alleged illegal betting app-linked money laundering case, official sources said. The federal probe agency will record his statement under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) as part of this investigation linked to an…
Mumbai, 14/8: Reliance Jio Infocomm on Monday said it has rolled out 5G services in 26 gigahertz millimetre waves across India and has claimed a record top speed of up to 2 gigabits per second. The millimetre wave is a short-length radio wave that almost works like a dedicated spectrum pipe for each user and…
Balasore: At least four persons were killed and over 30 sustained injuries after a tourist bus overturned on NH 16 in the Jaleswar area of Odisha’s Balasore district in the wee hours of Saturday. The deceased have been identified as Kamala Devi Yadav (70), Ram Prasad Yadav (55), Rajesh Kumar Mishra (58) and Shankar Yadav…
Sikkim, 25/1 (AO Bureau ): There was a skirmish on the Sikkim border between India and China, the ongoing deadlock on the Line of Actual Control in East Ladakh. Now the Indian Army has issued an official statement. The Indian Army said, ‘On January 20, there was a minor skirmish with Chinese troops at Naku-La…
Bhubaneswar: A cyclonic circulation hovering over the southeast Bay of Bengal is likely to increase temperatures in Odisha over the next few days, with no significant rainfall expected in the state.According to the India Meteorological Department (IMD), the maximum and minimum temperatures are set to rise by 2-3 degrees Celsius in the next three days.The…
Tokyo, 4/9: India’s Pramod Bhagat defeated Daniel Bethell of Great Britain in the final of the men’s singles badminton (SL3 class) event at the ongoing Tokyo Paralympic to win the gold medal on Saturday. Bhagat won 21-14, 21-17 to win his country’s fourth gold medal of the ongoing marquee event. With the result, India’s medal…
Mumbai, 16/11: Hardik Pandya has clarified on his expensive watches confiscated by the Customs Department at Mumbai Airport. Indian all-rounder Hardik Pandya told the whole truth behind this. Actually there was news that after the end of India’s campaign in T20 World Cup 2021, Hardik returned from Dubai to Mumbai with Team India and the…
