Team India bowling coach Morne Morkel (center) with pacers Akash Deep (left) and Arshdeep Singh in training (Screengrabs via X/@BCCI) With doubts over Jasprit Bumrah’s availability for the second Test against England at Edgbaston, former India all-rounder Irfan Pathan has backed Akash Deep as a strong replacement. India may rest Bumrah to manage his workload…
PITHORAGARH: A day after a Public Works Department (PWD) officer in Lohaghat, Champawat district, was served a notice for “invoking a village ritual in an official order”, the department’s secretary has transferred him to the regional chief engineer’s office in Pauri “with immediate effect”, officials said on Sunday.Assistant engineer Jai Prakesh’s service book had gone…
Watch: Locals fight armed men trying to kidnap Crypto boss’s pregnant daughter and her child in Paris The pregnant daughter of a top French cryptocurrency executive and her two-year-old child were the targets of a violent attempted kidnapping in Paris on Tuesday morning, a brazen daylight attack foiled by brave passers-by and caught on camera.According…
NEW DELHI: External affairs minister S Jaishankar on Monday called on the international community to stand united against terrorism, stressing that there must be “no impunity to terrorists”, “no treating them as proxies”, and “no yielding to nuclear blackmail”. His comments came while inaugurating a digital exhibition titled “The Human Cost of Terrorism” at the…
A Kolkata-based social media influencer, originally from Asansol, has disclosed his interactions with YouTuber Jyoti Malhotra, who was recently arrested on espionage charges. He met Malhotra during the Ram Temple inauguration in Ayodhya and again in Kolkata this February. KOLKATA: A Kolkata-based social media influencer, hailing from Asansol and presently under the scanner of security…
Zerodha co-founder and CEO Nithin Kamath took to microblogging platform X to raise concerns about increasing soft drink consumption in India. In the post, Kamath cited a worrying trend from a beverage maker’s recent earnings. “Indian’s are consuming more soft drinks than ever,” he wrote without naming the beverage company. He linked the increased consumption…
Sun Weidong (mfa.gov.cn) and Vikram Misri (ANI) Foreign secretary Vikram Misri met Chinese vice foreign minister Sun Weidong in New Delhi on Friday in a renewed effort to improve bilateral relations between the two countries. Weidong is visiting India for two days.During the meeting, the neighbours decided to rebuild ties by prioritising ‘people-centric engagements’, including…
HYDERABAD: An Air India Express flight bound for Phuket, Thailand, returned to the Hyderabad airport less than half an hour after take-off due to a technical snag. The aircraft was carrying more than 100 people, including passengers and the crew.The Boeing aircraft, operating as IX 110, had already experienced a 20-minute delay at the airport….
NEW DELHI: Home minister Amit Shah on Friday welcomed the designation of India as the host country for the 2029 World Police and Fire Games (WPFG), describing it as “a moment of great pride for every Indian citizen”.The biennial games will be held across Ahmedabad, Gandhinagar and Ekta Nagar in Kevadia, with the participation of…
International Cricket Council (ICC) Chairman Jay Shah hands over the championship mace to South African team players (@JayShah on X via PTI Photo) The International Cricket Council has announced the commencement of the 2025-27 World Test Championship cycle, following South Africa’s victory in the 2025 ICC World Test Championship final. The new cycle begins with…
