NEW DELHI: The Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) is facing internal tensions after Nationalist Congress Party (Sharad Pawar faction) president Sharad Pawar felicitated Maharashtra deputy chief minister Eknath Shinde at an event in Delhi. The move has not gone down well with the Shiv Sena (UBT), with senior party leader Sanjay Raut strongly criticising Pawar for…
NEW DELHI: The Jal Jeevan Mission’s Swachh Sujal Gaon exhibition at Maha Kumbh is drawing interest with its prototype models of old and new Bundelkhand villages and a booklet titled Jal Dhara Se Jeevan Dhara. The booklet narrates real-life accounts from Bundelkhand-Vindhya, depicting the challenges people faced before tap water connections became available in every…
NEW DELHI: Another Lok Sabha speech. Another controversy. Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday stoked a row once again firing salvos at the government during his Motion of Thanks to President’s address in Lok Sabha. Rahul’s remarks evoked very strong reactions from the BJP and also some NDA ministers who accused the Congress leader of…
NEW DELHI: In a gruelling 72-move battle, the longest game of Round 5 in the Masters section, D Gukesh had the last laugh as he got back to winning ways in the Tata Steel Chess Tournament 2025 in Wijk aan Zee on Wednesday. Playing against Vincent Keymer, a member of the team he assembled during…
Mohammed Shami during a training session at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata. (Getty Images) NEW DELHI: The T20I series between India and England sees the return of Mohammed Shami to international cricket after more than a year.Ahead of the first T20I at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata on Wednesday, the Indian cricket board (BCCI) shared…
If President Trump has his way, the auto industry’s transition to electric vehicles will soon slam into reverse. He will erase tax credits for electric-vehicle purchases, federal grants for chargers, and subsidies and loans to help retool assembly lines and build battery factories. Executive orders issued by Mr. Trump on Inauguration Day amount to a…
NEW DELHI: A video of IIT Madras director V Kamakoti praising the “medicinal value” of gomutra (cow urine) has gone viral on social media. The remarks were made during an event at a Go Samrakshana Sala on January 15, 2025, coinciding with Maatu Pongal, a Tamil festival celebrating cattle.Speaking at the event, Kamakoti narrated an…
Yashasvi Jaiswal and Rohit Sharma (Photo credit: X) NEW DELHI: India opener Yashasvi Jaiswal had a terrible day on the field on Sunday as he dropped three crucial catches of the Australian batters, prompting angered reactions from his skipper Rohit Sharma.After having dropped Usman Khawaja on 2 at leg-gully in the morning session, Jaiswal dropped…
30 companies have answered a call from the Indian National Space Promotion and authorisation centre (IN-SPACe) to create Earth observation (EO) satellite constellations.Launched through an expression of interest (EoI) in July, the initiative aims to establish a private-public partnership to reduce the nation’s dependence on foreign data sources for defence, infrastructure, and mapping needs.“We have…
LUCKNOW: Seers’ organisation Akhil Bharatiya Sant Samiti (AKSS) criticised on Monday RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat‘s recent remarks cautioning against ‘an unacceptable trend of wannabe Hindu leaders raking up temple-mosque disputes at various sites’.AKSS general secretary Swami Jitendranand Saraswati said such religious matters should be decided by ‘dharmacharyas’ (religious leaders) rather than RSS, which he described…