Running her first competitive race of the year, India’s fastest woman Dutee Chand wasted no time in owning the centre stage at the ongoing Khelo India University Games on Saturday. Representing Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT), Dutee clinched gold in 100m dash with a timing of 11.49 seconds. From the start to finish, the…

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo landed in Qatar’s capital city, Doha on Saturday to witness the signing of a historic deal with Taliban insurgents in an effort to end the 18-year war in Afghanistan. Mike Pompeo arrived on a flight from Washington and was due to hold a meeting with the Qatari Emir before…

The Delhi government on Friday gave its nod to the city police to prosecute former JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar and two others in connection with a 2016 sedition case. The file has been with the Home department since May 5 last year. Reacting to this, Kanhaiya Kumar urged the government officials and the police to…

After launching the Mi 10 and the Mi 10 Pro in China, Xiaomi is reportedly planning to launch these smartphones mid-March in India. Besides, the company is planning to bring the Redmi 9 in the country. In fact, the company’s head Manu Kumar Jain has also teased the launch of the upcoming products. However, there…

KOLKATA: A Bangladeshi undergraduate student of Visva-Bharati University has been ordered by the Union Home Ministry to leave India for ‘anti-government activities’ and visa violation after she allegedly shared some social media posts regarding protests against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act in the campus last December. Sources said a notice asking her to leave the country…

With 38 people killed and more than 250 people injured so far in the unprecedented violence that took place in northeast Delhi since Sunday evening, as armed mobs rampaged, looting and burning buildings, victims are left with only tales of horror to recount. “We jumped from the first floor with dupattas wrapped around our bodies…

The GDP growth was recorded at 4.7% in October-December quarter, according to data released by National Statistical Organisation on Friday. The government has also revised the growth estimate for the previous July-September quarter from 4.5% to 5.1% . The Nikkei Manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index had earlier increased to 52.7 in December 2019, the highest since…

New Delhi: A viral image of a Muslim man being beaten up by a mob during the communal riots in Northeast Delhi has been shared by the ISIS, calling for retaliatory action in ‘Wilayat al-Hind’, which is the terror group’s ‘province’ in India. Unsurprisingly, the viral image of a Muslim man being beaten by a Hindu…

The Maharashtra government will bring in a law to give five per cent reservation to Muslims in educational institutes, state minister for minority affairs Nawab Malik said in the Legislative Council Friday. ‘The Bombay High Court has upheld the five per cent reservation in educational institutes given to Muslims in 2014. The government will soon…

As police probe the alleged Rs 71-crore fraud in Shivajirao Bhosale Cooperative Bank, stories of its 95,000 depositors include those of a septuagenarian whose life’s earnings are now frozen, a single mother forced to take a loan to pay for her daughter’s wedding and a family whose belongings were washed away in the September 2019…

The United Kingdom now has 19 confirmed cases of the new coronavirus after Wales identified its first case and two new cases were found in England, health authorities said on Friday. “The total number of UK cases is 19,” the health ministry said. stay connected with us! For more updates LIKE SHARE and SUBSCRIBE if you…

Former Team India skipper Kapil Dev has expressed his thoughts on MS Dhoni’s possibilities inclusion in the Men In Blue squad for the upcoming ICC 2020 T20 World Cup. Dev urged Dhoni to play more matches to boost his chances to be picked in the World Cup squad. “As a cricketer, it all depends on…

Smoke billows after a reported government air strike on Maaret al-Numan in Syria’s northwestern Idlib province, the country’s last major opposition bastion. PHOTO: AFPsyria The United Nations on Thursday called for urgent action in northwest Syria, warning that “the risk of greater escalation grows by the hour.” “The Secretary-General reiterates his call for an immediate…

New Delhi: With over a dozen countries reporting their first confirmed cases of Novel Coronavirus in less than 48 hours, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned that the deadly outbreak has the potential to turn into a pandemic. The warning has also come in the wake of rising death toll due to the virus which…

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), one of the ruling alliance partners in Bihar, is treading cautiously and keeping an eye over the fast-changing political developments in the state. The saffron camp is more worried after Chief Minister Nitish Kumar held another round of meeting with Leader of the Opposition Tejashwi Yadav, the second such meet…