Category: Events

Rumesh Pathirage and Neeraj Chopra (PTI Photo) NEW DELHI: The newest rivalry in men’s javelin is set to resume sooner than expected.Just days after Sri Lanka’s Rumesh Pathirage edged Neeraj Chopra to the Commonwealth Games gold medal in Glasgow, the two South Asian stars will lock horns again at the Lausanne Diamond League on August...

Why a weaker dollar suits US president Trump (Photo credit: Reuters) The US has taken the extraordinary step of helping Japan pull the yen back from a four-decade low, signalling that Washington sees the currency’s collapse as more than Tokyo’s economic problem.The joint intervention drove the yen from nearly 164 against the dollar last month...

Tamil Nadu LoP Udhayanidhi Stalin NEW DELHI: DMK leader Udhayanidhi Stalin on Tuesday reacted strongly to his detention over an alleged “distasteful double-meaning remark” made during a protest against the Vijay-led government in Tamil Nadu. The remark was made in response to the public chant of an actress’s name at a gathering in Thanjavur.Udhayanidhi, himself...

Tehran had planned retaliatory strikes following a July 25 Ukrainian operation targeting a ship in the Caspian Sea Iran had prepared to carry out strikes on three sites in Ukraine but called off the operation after Kyiv apologised for an attack on a vessel carrying military cargo between Iran and Russia, a senior adviser to...

Smaran Ravichandran celebrates after scoring a century. (Syed Asif) NEW DELHI: Consistency is often the hardest quality to master in domestic cricket. Smaran Ravichandran has done exactly that. With 1534 runs in 26 innings at an average of 73.60, including three double hundreds in the last two Ranji Trophy seasons, the Karnataka batter has firmly...

(Representative image) NEW DELHI: A CRPF officer allegedly shot dead two of his colleagues and injured another before killing himself at a camp in Assam’s Nagaon district on Tuesday, police told news agency PTI.The incident took place at the CRPF’s 34 Battalion camp in Katimari, Nagaon, at around 7 am, when Assistant Sub-Inspector (GD) Ballani...

Pakistan’s Arshad Nadeem (PTI Photo) Pakistan’s Olympic champion Arshad Nadeem has found himself at the centre of growing criticism following his disappointing Commonwealth Games campaign in Glasgow, with questions now being raised not just about his form but also about the support system that surrounded him in the lead-up to the competition.The defending Commonwealth Games...

Udhayanidhi Stalin faced detention after a case was registered against him CHENNAI: DMK leader and leader of opposition Udhayanidhi Stalin was detained from his residence in Neelankarai on Tuesday after a case was registered against him over his allegedly objectionable remarks made during a rally on the Cauvery water dispute in Thanjavur.A police team led...

Fresh real estate projects worth over Rs 1,400 crore are set to take shape in Uttar Pradesh after the state’s real estate regulator approved 10 new developments across five districts. The developments, cleared by the Uttar Pradesh Real Estate Regulatory Authority (UP RERA), will bring 1,632 residential and commercial units, with Ghaziabad emerging as the...

TVK urged the NCW to take formal cognizance of the speech and video footage from the rally and take legal action for “public obscenity and outraging the modesty of women”. CHENNAI: Taking a strong exception to the alleged ‘vulgar’ remarks of leader of opposition Udhayanidhi Stalin, TVK filed a complaint with the National Commission for...