The IOA ad-hoc panel on Tuesday handed Olympic medallist Bajrang Punia and World Championship medallist Vinesh Phogat direct entries into the Asian Games, a decision which was taken without the consent of the national chief coaches and is set to be challenged by other wrestlers and their coaches. The IOA ad-hoc panel said in a...
The water level of the Yamuna in Delhi followed a downward trend on Tuesday morning after a slight increase on Monday due to rains in catchment areas upstream of the national capital. However, it is still flowing over two metres above the danger mark of 205.33 metres. The Wazirabad water treatment plant, where operations were...
The Congress is not interested in power or the post of prime minister,” party president MallikarjunKharge said on Tuesday as leaders of 26 Opposition parties gathered in Bengaluru to discuss strategy ahead of the 2024 LokSabha polls. In his inaugural address on the second day of the key Opposition meeting, he said, “Our intention in...
The BJP mounted attack on Kejriwal and said the Delhi CM left his house on Thursday to get clicked while Delhi people have been forced to leave their houses. A fresh war of words between the Aam Aadmi Party and the BJP started as Yamuna flood water entered the city sinking ITO, Civil Lines after...
In a first, the Centre will start selling tomatoes at discounted rates in retail markets in the national capital and few other cities from Friday to provide relief to the consumers as the price of the kitchen staple is ruling high at over Rs 200 per kilogram in some parts of the country. Announcing the decision, the...
Expansion of bilateral defence ties is expected to be a key focus of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s two-day visit to Paris beginning July 13 with ground work being finalised for New Delhi’s procurement of 26 naval variant of Rafale jets from France besides firming up a big-ticket deal to jointly develop an aircraft engine in...
The India Meteorological Department on Monday issued a ‘yellow alert’ for the nationalcapital while the Yamuna River in Delhi, which was flowing above warning level forhours, crossed the danger mark of 205.33 metres at 5 pm on Monday, the latest datafrom the flood control department said.Moreover, Delhi Minister Saurabh Bharadwaj stated that the government is...
Gearing up for the big 2024 elections, and crucial state polls this year, the Bharatiya Janata Partytoday announced new chiefs in many states.G Kishan Reddy, MP and union minister, will now lead the party in poll-bound Telangana, replacingBandi Sanjay Kumar. BJP MLA Etela Rajender, who served as the first finance minister ofTelangana, has been appointed...
Defence minister Rajnath Singh on Saturday warned India’s “neighbor” that if anyone tried to harm the country, a befitting reply will be given. Speaking at a rally in Chhattisgarh’s Maoists-affected Kanker district, he also claimed that the Left-Wing Extremism (LWE) would have been wiped out from the country had the Congress government in Chhattisgarh “cooperated...
New Delhi:Not just a few hundred jobs, but the start of an ecosystem to support manufacturing of semiconductor chips, and over 60,000 trained youth – this is how the setting up of a Micron Technology facility at Gujarat’s Sanand will pave the way for India becoming a semiconductor manufacturing hub, Union IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw...