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Ben Stokes poses during an England 2025/26 Ashes Headshot Session at Perth Stadium on November 18, 2025 in Perth, Australia. (Photo/Getty Images) There are few bilateral series in the cricketing world that define careers as the Ashes between Australia and England does, for good or bad. As England prepare to take on Australia Down Under…
New Delhi: The comptroller and auditor general has written to finance ministry expressing concern over the practice of cancellation and retendering in ongoing tendering processes, which, it said, has become a major bottleneck in govt’s ambition of becoming a $7 trillion economy by 2030.In its communication to the expenditure dept, CAG said the govt must…
NEW DELHI: There can be no justification, no looking away, and no whitewashing of terrorism, said external affairs minister S Jaishankar addressing SCO heads of govt meeting in Russia. As India has demonstrated, he added, it has the right to defend its people against terrorism and will exercise it.In the presence of Pakistan, which is…
Indian-origin CEO Tushar Atre was kidnapped and killed in California in 2019. Tushar Atre, the 50-year-old Indian-origin CEO and a cannabis entrepreneur who was kidnapped and killed in 2019, allegedly made his employees do 500 pushups for their paychecks, a suspected killer told the jury as the trial of the murder is going on. 23-year-old…
MUMBAI: Govt has said that the financial sector should not fight disintermediation but “take the bull by its horn, work collectively, analyse trends deeply and see how to channelise these so that financial flows become smoother within the domestic economy to all segments that require finance”. Economic secretary Anuradha Thakur said there was a rising…
NEW DELHI: Expressing its anguish over high courts for not following its rulings and ignoring judicial precedence in passing orders, Supreme Court on Monday said that it was against judicial discipline which cannot be ignored.A bench of Justices J B Pardiwala and K V Viswanathan said that high courts cannot ignore Supreme Court’s precedence in…
File photo: Economic secretary Anuradha Thakur MUMBAI: The government has said that the financial sector should not fight disintermediation but “take the bull by its horns, work collectively, analyse trends deeply and see how to channelise these so that financial flows become smoother within the domestic economy to all segments that require finance.”Speaking at the…
The United States has told Serbia it will not lift sanctions on the country’s largest oil company, NIS, unless Belgrade ensures a complete withdrawal of Russian ownership, Serbian Energy Minister Dubravka Djedovic Handanovic said on Saturday, calling the weeks ahead “some of the most difficult decisions in our history”.NIS — the Petroleum Industry of Serbia…
The National Commission for Women (NCW) has issued a directive calling for renewed scrutiny of the implementation of the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013, across Higher Educational Institutions (HEIs). In a letter circulated to universities and colleges, NCW has stressed the need for uniform, fully functional redressal systems…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Thursday directed the Jharkhand govt to notify 314 sq km of the Saranda Forest, marked by dense growth of pristine Sal trees, as a wildlife sanctuary within three months and said this would not in any manner impede the rights of forest dwellers and tribals.In its first decision in 1996…
