NEW DELHI: In an operation to avert a major disaster at sea, Indian Coast Guard Sunday rescued a foreign-flagged tanker carrying 23 crew members and 9,000 tonnes of palm oil after its main engine failed, ballast tanks began flooding and the vessel was dangerously tilted off Odisha coast, reports Surendra Singh.The Belize-flagged MT Seagull 9…
BJP hits out at opposition over EC protest, alleges ‘sole agenda’ is to grab power NEW DELHI: The BJP on Monday accused the opposition parties of trying to vitiate the country’s atmosphere and spread chaos amid their protest against the Election Commission, alleging that the sole agenda of netas like Rahul Gandhi, Akhilesh Yadav and…
India’s Avinash Sable (AP Photo) NEW DELHI: India suffered a major disappointment in the athletics competition at the Asian Games 2026 on Monday as defending champion and Games record holder Avinash Sable finished fourth in the men’s 3000m steeplechase final, despite producing his season-best performance.Sable clocked 8:21.67 but could not reproduce the performance that had…
SC asks EC to settle Trinamool symbol dispute within 3 months NEW DELHI: Supreme Court Monday asked Election Commission to decide the dispute between Mamata Banerjee-headed Trinamool Congress and the rival faction over the “two flower with grass symbol” within three months and gave four weeks to the opposing groups to complete their pleadings and…
Supreme Court delays CBSE three-language rule for Class VI students New Delhi: Supreme Court on Monday ordered CBSE to exempt Class VI students from the three-language policy, under which they have to choose two Indian languages. A bench of Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justices Joymalya Bagchi and V Mohana, which had requested CBSE to…
India’s Vithya Ramraj celebrates with the national flag after winning bronze in the women’s 400m hurdles at the Asian Games 2026 in Aichi-Nagoya. Ramraj clocked a personal best of 54.75 seconds to break PT Usha’s 42-year-old national record of 55.42 seconds, set at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics. The image also features Usha from her…
Minors on social media: SC asks Centre to enforce 18-year age threshold by law NEW DELHI: Agreeing with Supreme Court, Centre on Monday said it would soon insert a provision in the Information and Technology Intermediary Rules to prevent social media intermediaries from allowing children under 18 years of age to open social media accounts,…
Jammu & Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah SRINAGAR: CM Omar Abdullah said Monday that making J&K statehood conditional on the end of militancy would effectively give Pakistan a say in its restoration, as the assembly passed a resolution for full statehood and set off a BJP walkout over its reference to a 2000 autonomy demand.Omar…
India’s Gulveer Singh (PTI Photo) NEW DELHI: Indian distance runner Gulveer Singh continued his impressive campaign at the Asian Games 2026, winning his second silver medal in Japan with a personal best performance in the men’s 1500m final on Monday.Gulveer clocked 3:36.72 to finish second behind Japan’s Kazuto Iizawa, who clinched gold, while another Japanese…
Internal dispute has also affected Tata Sons’ leadership MUMBAI: Weeks after Reserve Bank of India directed Tata Sons to comply with upper-layer NBFC-CIC norms, Tata Trusts chairman Noel Tata has proposed merging two subsidiaries, Tata Electronics Systems (TES) and Tata Consulting Engineers (TCE), with the 109-year-old holding company to take it outside the RBI’s regulatory…