RANCHI/DALTONGANT: Pappu Lohra, chief of Maoist splinter outfit Jharkhand Jan Mukti Parishad (JJMP), was shot dead on Saturday during a gunfight with cops in Latehar district’s Ichabar area along with his second-in-command Prabhat Ganjhu.The duo’s elimination comes amid an intensified crackdown on Maoists that led to the killing of CPI (Maoist) chief Nambala Keshava Rao,…
Pat Cummins (Photo by Paul Harding/Getty Images) Australian cricket captain Pat Cummins has emphasised that while winning consecutive World Test Championship titles would reflect their team’s dominance over the past four years, their 2023 ODI World Cup victory over India remains his career highlight. Speaking ahead of the WTC final against South Africa on June…
A ‘Kiss Cam’ moment broadcast at a Coldplay concert Astronomer CEO Andy Byron and the firm’s chief human resources officer, Kristin Cabot. While featuring loved-up twosomes during the show, a camera panned over to a man who had his arms wrapped tightly around a woman, according to videos online. As soon as the two realised…
NEW DELHI: The railways did not just face the tough challenge of terrain and geology to construct the world’s highest cable-supported single-arch bridge on the Chenab river, it also fought a long legal battle, with a host of PILs filed in courts challenging alignment, cost and faulty methodology, casting a shadow of uncertainty over the…
Indian High Commissioner to the UK Vikram Doraiswami NEW DELHI: Indian High Commissioner to the UK Vikram Doraiswami schooled the Western journalist over criticising India’s oil imports from Russia and said that the New Delhi is the third largest consumer of energy in the world and imports over 80% of its products. “What would you…
Equity benchmark indices Sensex and Nifty rebounded sharply by nearly 1 per cent on Friday, driven by buying in heavyweight stocks such as Reliance Industries, HDFC Bank, and ITC.Investor sentiment was further supported by expectations of a record dividend from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and easing US treasury yields, traders said.After a flat…
HYDERABAD: California-based AI-powered SaaS solutions provider Evergent has opened its global value centre in Hyderabad.The company, which has already onboarded over 600 engineering and AI professionals in Hyderabad, plans to scale this up to over 1,000 employees by 2025 end.Inaugurating the new GVC, IT & industries minister Duddilla Sridhar Babu said Telangana is ready to…
NEW DELHI: India on Wednesday successfully test-fired two short-range ballistic missiles — Prithvi-II and Agni-I — from the Integrated Test Range in Chandipur, Odisha.The tests were carried out under the Strategic Forces Command, which handles India’s nuclear weapons arsenal. Both missiles met all mission objectives, validating key operational and technical parameters, officials said. The latest…
Axiom-4 crew (Image credits: ANI) BENGALURU: Weather permitting, the four-member Axiom-4 mission (Ax-4) crew, including Indian astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla (Shux), is set to undock from the International Space Station (ISS) at around 4.35 pm IST on Monday (July 14). Hours after Steve Stitch, manager, Nasa commercial crew programme had confirmed the undocking date, Axiom Space…
External affairs minister S Jaishankar on Friday said that the root of the ongoing issue of Sri Lanka arresting Indian fishermen lies in a controversial agreement made during the Emergency era, under which India gave up certain fishing rights.Speaking at an event organised by the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM) to mark the 50th anniversary…
