NEW DELHI: In a significant breakthrough, the Centre and Ladakh representatives Friday agreed on creation of an elected body at UT level “with full legislative, executive and financial powers”, apart from having similar bodies in each of the seven districts.The two sides – which resumed talks after a gap of over three months, with environmentalist…
New Delhi: Declaring the Centre’s resolve to put an end to infiltration from across the eastern border, which it sees as a design to introduce unnatural demographic changes, Union home minister Amit Shah on Friday asked BSF to take up the responsibility of identifying infiltrators and their routes by engaging with the local administration and…
NEW DELHI: US secretary of state Marco Rubio will call on PM Narendra Modi on Saturday, ahead of his bilateral meeting with counterpart S Jaishankar on Sunday and the Quad foreign ministers’ meeting on Tuesday. Rubio, who will land in Kolkata in the morning, will arrive in Delhi later in the day.The four-day visit to…
NEW DELHI: An Indian armed forces delegation, led by Lieutenant General Pushpendra Pal Singh, General Officer Commanding-In-Chief of Western Command and the seniormost serving special forces officer of the Indian armed forces, participated in Special Operations Forces (SOF) Week held at Tampa in Florida, US, from May 18 to 21.The event brought together special operations…
Zeb Evans, CEO of $4 billion all-in-one productivity platform ClickUp, announced that he is laying off more than 20% of his employees. Evans made the announcement that the company cut 22% of its headcount in a more than 1000-word post on X, formerly Twitter. He called the layoffs restructuring to create “100x org” and the…
Virat Kohli (BCCI/IPL Photo) NEW DELHI: With already a mountain of records to his name, Virat Kohli added yet another milestone to his glittering career during the IPL 2026 clash between Sunrisers Hyderabad and Royal Challengers Bengaluru at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium on Saturday.Kohli became the batter involved in the most 50-plus partnerships in…
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has announced a record dividend payout of Rs 2.87 lakh crore to the government for FY 2026-27. The payout comes at a time when the economy is dealing with the effects of the US-Iran war and global oil price shock. The dividend announced on Friday is the highest ever…
Virat Kohli and Rasikh Salam Dar (Image credit: BCCI/IPL) NEW DELHI: Royal Challengers Bengaluru pacer Rasikh Salam Dar’s celebration said it all after he sent Sunrisers Hyderabad opener Travis Head’s stumps cartwheeling during their IPL 2026 clash at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium on Friday.After being hammered for three consecutive boundaries by Head, Rasikh responded…
Pat Cummins and Rajat Patidar (BCCI/IPL Photo) NEW DELHI: Sunrisers Hyderabad captain Pat Cummins won the toss and opted to bat against Royal Challengers Bengaluru in their IPL 2026 clash at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium in Hyderabad on Friday. Both teams have already secured their spots in the playoffs.“We’ll bat first. I think it’s…
NEW DELHI: The Allahabad high court has suspended the administrative and financial powers of Lucknow Mayor Sushma Kharkwal for failing to administer the oath of office to a duly elected Samajwadi Party (SP) for nearly five months. The order, passed on May 22 in Lalit Tiwari v State of Uttar Pradesh & Ors, was delivered…