In Badminton, defending champions India have advanced to the quarter-finals of the Thomas Cup, featuring the men, with a 5-Nil victory against England in the Group C contest in Chengdu, China last night. In the first match, ace shuttler H S Prannoy put India into the lead, defeating Harry Huang in straight games
In the 6th Asian Carrom championship, Indian players captured both the Men’s and Women’s doubles titles at Male in Maldives. In Men’s doubles final yesterday, Indian duo K Srinivas and Mohammed Ghufran took down Ismail Azmeen and Hassan Nazim of the host country, 25-15, 25-16. While in women’s doubles, India’s Aakanksha Kadam
In Women’s Cricket, India will take on Bangladesh in the second match of the five-match T20 series in Sylhet today. The match is scheduled to begin at 3.30 PM, IST. Harmanpreet Kaur is leading the Indian Women’s team, while Nigar Sultana is in charge of the Bangladeshi team. In the opening match on Sunday
India strongly protested Khalistan slogans raised at a public event in Canada, which was being personally addressed by the Prime Minister of Canada. In this regard, the Ministry of External Affairs yesterday, summoned the Canadian Deputy High Commissioner in New Delhi. The Ministry said, India’s deep concern and strong protest was conveyed
In Manipur, the election authority has taken up all measurements to conduct the re-polling in six polling stations of the Outer Manipur Parliamentary Constituency today. Five polling stations in Ukhrul district and one in Senapati will go to re-polling today from 7 AM to 4 PM. The Election Commission of India announced
In Kerala, five persons were killed when a car in which they were travelling rammed against an LPG cylinder laden truck near Cherukkunnu in the Kannur district last night. Those killed included a woman and a nine year old boy. All five died on the spot. The mishap took place when the occupants in car
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has forecast heatwave conditions to continue over south Peninsular India including Telangana, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Puducherry during next four days. Heatwave to severe heat wave conditions will also prevail over West Bengal, Sikkim, Gujarat, Odisha and Bihar till tomorrow. The Weather agency added that hot and humid weather will
In Madhya Pradesh, 74 candidates are in the fray in the fourth phase of Lok Sabha elections in the state. On the last day of withdrawal of nomination papers for this phase, 16 candidates withdrew their names yesterday. AIR correspondent reports that the most surprising name among the withdrawal of nominations in
A BJP delegation today met the Election Commission of India (ECI) over the issues of deep fake videos and violence in West Bengal during election. Briefing the media after meeting the ECI, senior party leader and Union Minister Ashwani Vaishnaw said that Congress party is misleading the people through posting deep fake videos on its
In Kenya, more than 40 people have been killed in Mai Mahiu area after a dam burst today, pushing the death toll from devastating floods to more than 120. Kenyan authorities are struggling to cope with the chaotic conditions. Heavy rains have been lashing East Africa in recent weeks as the El Nino weather pattern