Ahmedabad’s Indian Premier League (IPL) franchise has been named ‘Gujarat Titans’, the team owner Siddharth Patel of CVC Capital Partners confirmed on Wednesday. The franchise is one of the two newest additions to the tournament – the other being Lucknow (Super Giants). The side will be led by all-rounder Hardik Pandya, who was released by […]
UN chief Antonio Guterres has condoled the demise of the legendary Indian singer, Lata Mangeshkar, who “truly had been the voice of the subcontinent”. Mangeshkar, who will be counted as one of India’s greats with an estimated 25,000 songs in an almost eight-decade career, died in Mumbai on Sunday. She was 92.The UN Secretary General’s […]
The Indian Space Research Organisation’s first launch mission of 2022 is slated for February 14, with PSLV-C52 orbiting an earth observation satellite (EOS-04). The launch of Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C52) is scheduled at 05.59 hours on Monday from the First Launch Pad of Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota, the Bengaluru-headquartered space agency said.PSLV-C52 is […]
India logged 71,365 new coronavirus infections taking the country’s total tally of Covid cases to 4,24,10,976, while the active cases declined to 8,92,828, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Wednesday. The death toll climbed to 5,05,279 with 1,217 fresh fatalities, the data updated at 8 am said.The active cases comprised 2.11 per […]
Whether it is a bikini, a ‘ghoonghat’, a pair of jeans or a ‘hijab’, it is a woman’s right to decide what she wants to wear, Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra said on Wednesday amid the ongoing hijab row in Karnataka. She asserted that this right is guaranteed by the Constitution.Incidents of stone pelting and […]
The Supreme Court on Wednesday granted anticipatory bail to Trinamool Congress leader SK Supiyan, who was the election agent of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in Nandigram during last year’s assembly elections, in a murder case. A bench of Justices L Nageswara Rao and Abhay S Oka, however, imposed several conditions while granting the relief to […]
Ludhiana police on Tuesday night released LIP MLA Simarjit Bains after he was arrested from the court complex earlier in the day. He was reportedly released following the intervention of the election commission.Bains, along with 33 others, had been booked following a clash on Monday between Congress supporters and LIP workers at Atam Nagar.
The Border Security Force (BSF) on Wednesday claimed to have foiled a narcotics and weapon smuggling bid by a drone along the India-Pakistan border in Punjab. A senior official of the force said troops fired at the drone after they heard a “buzzing sound of a suspected flying object coming from the Pakistani side to […]
Delhi’s air quality was in the “poor” category on Wednesday morning as light rain with gusty winds at a speeds of 30-40kmph were expected later in the day. The hourly Air Quality Index (AQI) was 280 at 7am, according to the Central Pollution Control Board. On Tuesday, the average 24-hour AQI was 270 in the […]
The High Commission of India, which is based in Ottawa and provides consular services, has released an advisory telling Indian citizens living in Canada or those planning to travel there to “exercise a high degree of caution” due to the protests against COVID-19 restrictions and vaccine mandates in Ottawa and elsewhere.The statement, posted by the […]