NEW DELHI: Leader of opposition in Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge on Thursday wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, reiterating the Congress’ demand to maintain the existing strength of the Lok Sabha at 543 for another 25 years.Kharge’s letter came after Union parliamentary affairs minister hinted at a possible special session of Parliament for the passage…
The Delhi High Court has quashed criminal defamation proceedings against senior advocate and former Member of Parliament Pinaki Misra New Delhi: The Delhi High Court has quashed criminal defamation proceedings against senior advocate and former Member of Parliament Pinaki Misra, in a case alleging that he had said certain objectionable words about a lawyer in…
United Arab Emirates (UAE) batter Asif Khan (Photo/ICC) UAE batter Asif Khan has been banned for 15 months after testing positive for a banned anabolic steroid during an out-of-competition doping test conducted last year.Asif tested positive for a metabolite of mesterolone in a sample collected on September 8, 2025. Mesterolone is an anabolic steroid used…
Flash floods and mudslides have killed hundreds and left more than 1,300 people missing along the China-Nepal border A barrier lake formed near the confluence of the Chhochen Khola and Purepu Tsangpo rivers in Nepal could face a high risk of breaching over the next three days, Global Times reported citing Chinese authorities on Thursday….
An official examines the wreckage of a Tecnam aircraft following a fatal crash in Kanpur. NEW DELHI: A training aircraft belonging to Kanpur’s Garg Aviation crashed on Thursday, killing two — the trainer and trainee pilots — on board. The Directorate General of Civil Aviation said in a statement the Tecnam P2006T twin-engine aircraft (VT-NBV)…
Sri Lanka’s Sonal Dinusha (PTI Photo) Sonal Dinusha continued his impressive run against India by registering his fourth consecutive fifty-plus score in Test cricket on Thursday, putting his name alongside some of the game’s most celebrated batters.The Sri Lankan left-hander reached the landmark during the final day of the second Test in Colombo, where his…
Trump is adding to a US debt pile that has been building for decades under both parties. Forty trillion dollars. Written out in full, that is $40,000,000,000,000, a four followed by thirteen zeros.Spend a dollar every second, and it would take more than 1.2 million years to get through the whole amount. Or stack that…
Vande Bharat to E. coli: What CAG found behind Indian Railways’ big makeover (PTI file photo) NEW DELHI: Indian Railways is in the middle of one of its biggest modernisation drives, spanning station redevelopment, new trains, electrification and record capital investment. A recent CAG audit, however, shows that alongside this expansion, gaps remain in some…
Sri Lanka’s Sonal Dinusha celebrates his century on the fourth day of the second Test cricket match between India and Sri Lanka, in Colombo, Sri Lanka. (PTI Photo) BCCI vice-president Rajiv Shukla praised Sri Lanka batter Sonal Dinusha on Thursday after the left-hander scored fourth consecutive half-century of the series in the ongoing second Test…
In 1971, Apollo 15 astronauts found an unusual white rock on the Moon (Image Credit: NASA) When Apollo 15 astronauts David Scott and James Irwin explored the Moon in 1971, they were looking for rocks that could reveal how the lunar surface formed. During their mission, they spotted an unusually bright fragment near Spur Crater,…