Category: World


  • Harbhajan faces online bashing for ‘cricket ki kitni samajh hogi’ remark about Anushka and Athiya during commentary

    Chandigarh, November 20 Former Indian cricketer Harbhajan Singh made a controversial remark against Anushka Sharma and Athiya Shetty during the ICC Cricket World Cup finals on Sunday. During the India vs Australia match, Harbhajan Singh made the comments when Anushka and Athiya were seen chatting with each other in the stadium. Harbhajan said, “Yahi main…

  • Seoul warns North Korea not to launch a spy satellite and hints a 2018 peace deal could be suspended

    South Korea’s military warned North Korea not to go ahead with its planned spy satellite launch, suggesting on Monday that Seoul could suspend an inter-Korean peace deal and resume frontline aerial surveillance in retaliation for a launch. North Korea failed in its first two attempts to put a military spy satellite into orbit earlier this…

  • Nasser Hussain believes India’s long tail came back to ‘haunt’ them in World Cup final

    New Delhi, November 20 Former England skipper Nasser Hussain said India’s long tail restricted Virat Kohli and KL Rahul from going all out during their partnership in the World Cup final. India scored 81/3 when Kohli and Rahul joined hands to stitch a 67-run partnership and revive hopes of reaching a competitive total. Play Mute…

  • Keep your Head up

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    Ahmedabad, November 19 Mohammed Shami struck on the third ball he bowled: Perfectly pitched, perfectly seaming away — edged and caught at slip. David Warner, having got lucky with the first ball of the innings, had to walk off for seven. Fifth over, the ever-dangerous Jasprit Bumrah, who’d gone for 15 in the first over,…

  • Air pollution levels creep up in Delhi

    New Delhi, November 20 Air quality in Delhi and its suburbs deteriorated again overnight after a marginal improvement a day ago with forecasts suggesting that a major relief is unlikely in the coming days. The city’s Air Quality Index (AQI) stood at 338 at 8 am on Monday, deteriorating from 301 at 4 pm and…

  • Thane man loses Rs 50,000 in reward points fraud

    Thane, November 20 A 63-year-old man from Maharashtra’s Thane city lost nearly Rs 50,000 after being lured into redeeming reward points in the name of a bank, police said on Monday. The victim, who earlier worked with a business consultancy firm in Navi Mumbai, received a message on August 18 purportedly from a bank where…

  • Uttarkashi tunnel collapse: Rescue gains momentum, 24 metre of 70 metre debris drilled

    New Delhi, November 17 On the sixth day of the rescue operation on Friday, efforts to extricate 40 trapped labourers from the collapsed Silkyara-Barkot tunnel in Uttarakhand gained momentum. The latest drilling machine, having successfully penetrated 24 metre, managed to insert four pipes by Friday afternoon. However, the drilling process temporarily halted when the auger…

  • Foreign couple found dead in Himachal’s Manikaran, naked bodies bore injury marks

    Police said the man and the woman, who were in their twenties, could not be immediately identified. But based on some of the belongings found nearby, they believed that the victims could be from Russia. Naked bodies of the woman and the man were found inside a kund (hot spring pool) and outside the pool,…

  • Congress leaders from Delhi used Rajasthan as ‘ATM’, says Amit Shah

    Jaipur, November 17 Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday attacked the Congress, saying it considered Rajasthan as its “ATM” where its leaders from Delhi swiped card to withdraw money. Addressing a public meeting at Vijay Nagar of Ajmer, he said the Congress crossed all limits of appeasement politics for keeping its vote bank. The…

  • India, Australia set to hold ‘2+2’ ministerial dialogue next week

    New Delhi, November 17 Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong and Defence Minister Richard Marles are set to visit India to take part in the two-plus-two ministerial dialogue on Monday that is likely to focus on further shoring up strategic ties between the two countries, people familiar with the matter said. It is learnt that Marles,…