The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) is expected to announce the central contracts for the 2025-26 season by the end of this week, according to BCCI sources. As per sources, star spinners Kuldeep Yadav and Axar Patel are likely to be promoted from Grade B to Grade A. The duo…
NEW DELHI: Observing that it will not hesitate to go out of the way to protect the environment and ecology, Supreme Court on Wednesday took strong exception to Telangana govt felling trees and removing green cover from over 100 acres in Kancha Gachibowli forest in Hyderabad and said govt had only two options – either…
NEW DELHI: As Supreme Court readies to hear on Wednesday a bunch of petitions challenging Waqf Amendment Act, a petition by advocate Hari Shankar Jain sought scrapping of several provisions of waqf Act, 1995 and recent amendments alleging their use as tools by waqfs to illegally amass immoveable properties across India, reports Dhananjay Mahapatra.In his…
Cabinet sub-committee handover the first copy of the GO, a government order on the implementation of Scheduled Castes (SC) categorisation to Telangana Chief Minister Revanth Reddy, in Hyderabad on Monday. (ANI Photo) HYDERABAD: Telangana became the first state Monday to implement sub-categorisation of Scheduled Caste reservation by classifying 59 sub-castes into three groups, timing the…
NEW DELHI: Bharatiya Janata Party on Sunday termed West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee as “Modern day Jinnah” and claimed that her party’s actions are akin to Muslim League in 1940’s.Condemning Mamata’s silence over the death of the three people in the violent protests in Murshidabad, BJP leader Tarun Chugh accused the TMC-led government of…
NEW DELHI: Tamil Nadu forest minister K Ponmudy on Saturday apologized for his derogatory and vulgar remarks against women and certain sects of Hinduism, saying it was a “lapse in judgment” by him.Ponmudy said, “I sincerely apologize for the inappropriate words I used while speaking at an event organized by the Thanthai Periyar Dravidar Kazhagam….
Sonia and Rahul Gandhi (ANI file photo) NEW DELHI: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Saturday said it has begun proceedings to take possession of properties worth over Rs 700 crore belonging to Associated Journals Limited (AJL) in National Herald case, a company linked to Congress leaders Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi. The assets include prime…
US vice president JD Vance and National Security Advisor Mike Waltz are expected to be in India on the same day in the third week of April, with the visits being seen as a diplomatic coup for the Indian side, people familiar with the matter said. There is a very brief window for a meeting…
Nainar Nagendran, a BJP legislator representing Tamil Nadu’s Tirunelveli constituency, and TN BJP chief Annamalai NEW DELHI: Nainar Nagendran, a BJP legislator representing Tamil Nadu’s Tirunelveli constituency, submitted his nomination papers on Friday for the party’s state president election. Nagendran, currently the state vice president, was formerly with the AIADMK. He became the first candidate…
Delhi temperatures came down on Thursday. NEW DELHI: Heavy rain and dusty storms brought a pleasant change to Delhi’s temperature on Thursday after the capital experienced the warmest night of the season. The drop in temperature brought a much-needed respite from heat.The city recorded its minimum temperature at 25.9 degrees Celsius on Wednesday night, approximately…
