UFO whistleblower, who claimed that the US government is secretly holding alien spacecraft, gave evidence to the Congress on Wednesday. Former US Air Force intelligence officer Retired Maj. David Grusch said that the US is concealing a longstanding program that retrieves and reverse engineers unidentified flying objects. The Pentagon has denied the allegations. In a...
The Allahabad High Court on Tuesday heard a plea against a district court order directing the Archaeological Survey of India to conduct a survey to determine if the Gyanvapi mosque in Varanasi was built upon a temple. After hearing arguments in the matter, Chief Justice Pritinker Diwaker posted it for further hearing on Wednesday. The...
Tata Motors today reported a consolidated net profit of ₹ 3,300.65 crore in the first quarter ended June 30, riding on sharp improvements in performance of its British arm Jaguar Land Rover and commercial vehicles business. The company had posted a consolidated net loss of ₹ 4,950.97 crore in the same quarter last fiscal, Tata Motors said in a...
Heavy rainfall lashed several parts of the national capital and its neighbouring cities, including Noidaand Ghaziabad, leading to waterlogging on roads on Wednesday. Parts of the city such as ITO got waterlogged causing traffic snarls and hinderance in trafficmovement. The Yamuna River in the national capital still flows just a few centimetres below the danger...
China removed Foreign Minister Qin Gang from his post on Tuesday after a one-month absence from public duties, replacing him with his predecessor Wang Yi, state media said, after weeks of speculation about what had happened to him. Qin, 57, who only took up the job in December after a brief stint as envoy to the...
Greta Gerwig has broken the opening-weekend record for a female director, solo or otherwise. Her Barbie movie opened to a staggering $162 million at the North American box office over the July 21-23 weekend, a historic sum that easily surpasses the $103.3 domestic opening of Patty Jenkins’ Wonder Woman. In 2019, Captain Marvel also broke the glass ceiling when debuting at $153 million. That movie...
A true sporting ambassador, Indian football icon Sunil Chhetri has made millions of countrymen a reason to believe that there’s a future for the ‘Beautiful Game’ in our on nation. Even at the age of 39, Chhetri remains as fit and firing as ever. In fact, many believe that he is still India’s finest footballer. But, at...
A majority of G20 members are now in sync with the view of India’s central bank that cryptocurrencies could pose huge risks to the stability of the financial system, people aware of the development said adding that these countries may work to institutionalise an internationally-accepted regulatory framework for crypto-assets while allowing individual jurisdictions to impose...
The central cabinet today cleared a bill to replace the ordinance allowing the centre to take away from the Delhi government the control over the posting of officers, said sources. The bill will be introduced in the parliament soon, they said. The ordinance had become one of the latest flashpoints between the BJP and the...
The Delhi BJP on Tuesday staged a protest near the AAP office here demanding the resignation of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal over the alleged failure of his government on “all the fronts”. Addressing the protesters, Delhi BJP president Virendra Sachdeva charged that Kejriwal government’s failure on all the fronts was evident during the flood faced...