Cuttack, 12/5: South Africa outclassed India by four wickets in a one-sided second T20 International on Sunday to take a 2-0 lead in the five-match series. Batting first, India managed only 148 for six in 20 overs with Dinesh Karthik’s unbeaten 30 off 21 balls helping the hosts reach a respectable total and…
Bangalore, 29/2: An Amritdhari (baptised) Sikh girl was asked by her college here to remove her turban, following the Karnataka High Court’s interim order on the Hijab row. The Karnataka High Court, in its recent interim order pending consideration of all petitions related to the hijab row, restrained all the students in the state from…
Raibareli, 12/5: In an apparent bid to corner Congress leader Rahul Gandhi in his family stronghold of Raebareli, Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday posed five questions before him and asked him to make his stand clear on those questions “I want to ask five questions publicly — triple talaq, which was abolished by…
Moscow, 28/4: President Vladimir Putin of Russia said on Monday that he had ordered a three-day ceasefire in Ukraine next month as a goodwill gesture Putin said in a statement posted on the Kremlin’s website that Russian forces would stop fighting May 8 for 72 hours for “humanitarian reasons.” There was no immediate comment from…
New Delhi, 24/9: The nomination process for the Congress president election started on Saturday with senior MP Shashi Tharoor becoming the first to collect the papers from the AICC headquarters. Sources said Tharoor is likely to file nomination papers on September 30, the last date, as he plans to collect endorsements from party delegates from…
New Delhi, 26/6: The Chief Executive Officer of Bharti Airtel’s enterprise arm Airtel Business, Ajay Chitkara, has resigned from the company, according to a filing. Following the resignation, Bharti Airtel has restructured leadership in the enterprise arm by dividing it into three segments. “Ajay Chitkara, CEO Airtel Business, has decided to move on from…
New Delhi, 22/7: New airline Akasa Air on Friday said it will launch commercial flight operations on August 7 by operating its first service on Mumbai-Ahmedabad route using Boeing 737 Max aircraft. In a statement, the carrier said it has opened ticket sales on 28 weekly flights it will be operating on Mumbai-Ahmedabad route from…
New Delhi, 6/5 (AO bureau): Prime Minister Narendra Modi has spoken to the families of opposition leaders Pradipta Kumar Naik and Padma Shri Raghunath Mohapatra, who are being treated for Corona. Modi spoke to family members and inquired about his health. Opposition leader Pradeep Naik has been diagnosed with coronary heart disease and is being…
New Delhi, 6/4: Travel tech firm OYO on Thursday said it has witnessed a 167 per cent rise in bookings made through its platform for the three-day long weekend starting with Good Friday as compared to last year. There was a 57 per cent increase in booking demand for beach destinations and 43…
Paris, 29/5:Men’s world No.1 Jannik Sinner will have to wait for another year for a maiden maiden French Open crown as the ailing star was knocked out in the second round of the clay court Grand Slam by Juan Manuel Cerundolo. Sinner’s only previous meeting with the 56th-ranked Argentinian was a straight-sets win in the…
