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NEW DELHI: After a turbulent few days dominated by the handshake controversy and threats from the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) to pull out of the tournament, India are switching their focus back to cricket. The team is scheduled to resume training in Dubai on Tuesday, arriving at the ICC Academy around 5:40 PM local time…
MUMBAI/NEW DELHI: Welcoming SC’s order in Waqf Amendment Act, Union minister Kiren Rijiju said Monday the judgment has validated govt’s case for significant reforms in waqf laws, emphasising the amended Waqf Act remains fully operational.Rijiju who piloted the legislation in Parliament emphasised that govt in its affidavit said the Act had been drafted with due…
NEW DELHI: Welcoming SC’s negative vote on three key provisions of the Waqf Act as putting a hold on BJP’s “mischievous intentions”, Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge accused the governing party of bulldozing a “divisive law” to inflame communal passions and “reopen issues that India had long settled”. Calling the upholding of deletion of “waqf by…
PUNE/NAVI MUBAI: Probe into the abduction of a heavy vehicle’s helper by an SUV driver during a road rage incident in Navi Mumbai on Saturday found that dismissed IAS officer Puja Khedkar’s father, Dilip Khedkar, a retired state govt officer, was in the SUV, police said. Both he and his chauffeur have absconded in the…
CHENNAI: The law ministry on Monday notified the appointment of Justice M Sundar of Madras high court as the chief justice (CJ) of Manipur high court. In another order, Justice Soumen Sen of Calcutta high court has been appointed as the acting chief justice of that HC.Justice Sundar takes charge from incumbent chief justice Kempaiah…
PATNA: PM Modi said Monday that demographic changes in the border areas of Seemanchal, Bihar, were a serious concern and slammed the opposition for taking out yatras in these border towns to protect infiltrators for what he described as vote-bank politics.Modi said infiltrators posed a threat to identity and dignity of Bihar and promised that…
BHOPAL: In the first recorded clash between a leopard and a cheetah since the launch of Project Cheetah in MP in 2022, a 20-month-old female cheetah was found dead at Kuno National Park Monday evening. The incident comes just as India’s ambitious cheetah reintroduction programme enters its third year this Wednesday.Forest officials said the carcass…
AMRITSAR/GURDASPUR: Congress MP Rahul Gandhi toured several flood-ravaged villages in Amritsar and Gurdaspur districts Monday. His visit came six days after PM Modi dropped by flood-affected areas of Punjab.Rahul chose to keep the media at bay throughout. He later posted on X: “The floods have caused severe devastation in Punjab. I met villagers in Ghonewal…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday noted the alleged involvement of Russian embassy officials in Delhi in the kidnapping of a child from the SC’s custody by the mother and fleeing via Kathmandu-Sharjah to Moscow and said the strong relations between India and Russia is restraining it from commenting harshly on the handling of…
NEW DELHI: The sex ratio at birth recorded a decline for the fourth successive year in Delhi, with 920 females being born in 2024 per 1,000 males, compared with 922 in 2023 and 929 in 2022. Delhi govt officials said the fall was marginal, but health experts sounded an alarm, saying that the trend pointed…
