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 year and didn’t follow through …
Read More »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 Loaded: 1.16% Fullscreen But throughout their …
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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, got Mitchell Marsh with a …
Read More »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 290 at 7 am on …
Read More »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 he had an account, stating …
Read More »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 encountered a metallic obstruction and …
Read More »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, respectively in Tagri on the …
Read More »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 state ranks number one in …
Read More »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, who is also Australia’s deputy …
Read More »ITBP jawan killed in blast triggered by Naxalites in Chhattisgarh’s Gariaband
Gariaband, November 17 A jawan of the Indo Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) was killed in a blast triggered by Naxalites in Chhattisgarh’s Gariaband district, where polling was held in the second phase of the state Assembly elections. The incident took place near Bade Gobra village when a polling team, escorted by security personnel, was returning after conducting voting, a senior …
Read More »T’gana to witness Congress ‘toofan’, says Rahul Gandhi; next aim to ‘dislodge’ Modi govt at Centre
Hyderabad, November 17 Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday said Telangana was going to witness a ‘toofan’ (storm) of support for his party in the legislative assembly polls and that the ruling Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) would lose badly. Addressing a rally at Pinapaka in Khammam district, he alleged that the corruption of BRS can be seen all over the …
Read More »UN aid supplies to Gaza halted again, says starvation imminent
Reuters Gaza/Jerusalem, November 17 UN aid deliveries to Gaza were suspended again on Friday due to shortages of fuel and a communications shutdown, deepening the misery of thousands of hungry and homeless Palestinians as Israeli troops battled Hamas militants in the enclave. The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) said civilians faced the “immediate possibility of starvation” due to the …
Read More »BharatPe co-founder Ashneer Grover, wife Madhuri stopped at Delhi airport
New Delhi, November 17 BharatPe co-founder Ashneer Grover and his wife Madhuri Jain were stopped at the Delhi international airport following a look out circular issued against them in the alleged fraud at the fintech firm, sources said. The couple were to travel to New York late on Thursday for vacation when they were stopped at the airport on the …
Read More »ICC World Cup 2023: Hotel room tariff in Ahmedabad skyrockets to Rs 2 lakh ahead of India-Australia final
Ahmedabad, November 17 Hotel room tariff in Gujarat’s Ahmedabad and airfares to the City have skyrocketed in view of the soaring demand from people who want to witness the cricket World Cup final match between India and Australia to be played at the Narendra Modi Stadium here on the coming Sunday. As the fever for the World Cup final is …
Read More »Delhi High Court stays proceedings in money-laundering case against Hero Motocorp’s Pawan Munjal
New Delhi, November 17 The Delhi High Court on Friday stayed the proceedings against Hero Motocorp chairman Pawan Kant Munjal in a money-laundering case being probed by the Enforcement Directorate (ED). Justice Saurabh Banerjee issued notice to the investigating agency on Munjal’s petition against the ED case and granted it time to file its reply. While granting the interim relief, …
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