Category: Events

Saina Nehwal (Getty Images) Saina Nehwal and Sania Mirza can be safely termed as two of the most recognisable faces of female sportspersons in India. Many came before them and many after, but the credit of popularising two widely followed racquet sports in India, especially among girls, goes to these two world beaters.Go Beyond The...

Bill Gates’ charitable foundation, Gates Foundation Trust holds hundreds of millions of dollars in fossil fuel extractors, said Guardian. The trust invested $254m in companies that extract fossil fuels such as Chevron, BP and Shell, according to end-of-year filings as quoted in the report. The investment marked a nine year high and was 21% up...

Russia on Tuesday made crucial statements on Greenland, Iran, US and Nato amid the ongoing geopolitical tensions with the Western nations over Ukraine war.Dismissing the US president Donald Trump’s charges that Greenland had a looming threat from Russia and China, Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov said that the nation had “no interest” in interfering in...

US President Donald Trump on Tuesday changed his long-standing stance on Nobel Prize, and said that he “did not care” about the peace prize. This comes only a day after he wrote to the Norway PM in which he had that said he no longer felt bound to “think purely of Peace” on Greenland after...

Greater Noida police arrested Abhay Kumar, builder of MZ Wishtown, in connection with the death of software engineer Yuvraj Mehta GREATER NOIDA: Police on Tuesday arrested Abhay Kumar, the builder and owner of MZ Wiztown, in connection with the death of 27-year-old software engineer Yuvraj Mehta.Abhay Kumar, director of Wiztown Planners Private Limited, was arrested...

Gautam Gambhir and Virat Kohli (Image credit: Agencies) NEW DELHI: A video claiming that the Indore crowd shouted “Gautam Gambhir haaye haaye” after the third ODI against New Zealand has gone viral on social media, but the claim is misleading. The clip shows Virat Kohli reacting during the post-match presentation at the Holkar Stadium, and...

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Tuesday expressed displeasure over former Union minister Maneka Gandhi‘s criticism of the apex court’s order in the stray dog case. Though the court said that the remarks qualified as “contempt”, it had decided not to go ahead with the charges “due to its magnanimity.““You said the court should be...

NEW DELHI: Events unfolded rapidly inside the Tamil Nadu Assembly on Tuesday as Governor R N Ravi walked out of the House without delivering his customary address, alleging, among other things, “inaccuracies” in the DMK government-prepared text, which triggered a sharp response from chief minister M K Stalin.This was the fourth such walkout by Ravi...

Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan, governor Rajendra Arlekar (File photos) The Kerala assembly on Tuesday saw a rare and tense moment, soon after governor Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar finished his address to the house.Chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan stood up and told the assembly that the governor had not read the cabinet-approved policy address in full. He said...

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