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India’s Jemimah Rodrigues celebrates after winning the Women’s Cricket World Cup (AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade) Indian cricketer Jemimah Rodrigues recently shared her experience of dealing with overwhelming attention during the Women’s World Cup. She had to take the drastic step of uninstalling WhatsApp following her match-winning performance in the semi-final.The India batter revealed she received messages...

Indian women’s cricket team vice-captain Smriti Mandhana and music composer Palash Muchhal’s wedding, which was scheduled for November 23, was postponed after unexpected health emergencies in the family.The sequence began when Mandhana’s father, Shriniwas, fell ill on the wedding day and had to be taken to a hospital. A day later, groom-to-be Palash Muchhal was...

NEW DELHI: Vice President C P Radhakrishnan’s first day as chairman of Rajya Sabha was marked by a warm welcome by treasury benches led by PM Narendra Modi and clashes between them and opposition as the latter raised the issue of ex-VP Jagdeep Dhankhar.PM praised Radhakrishnan’s contributions and said his rise from an ordinary background...

Sacked BrahMos scientist absolved of leaking missile secrets to Pak by HC NAGPUR: Seven years after his arrest, the Nagpur bench of the Bombay high court on Monday exonerated a former scientist with BrahMos Aerospace Private Limited, Nishant Agarwal, of charges of espionage and cyber terrorism, but upheld his conviction under Section 3(1) C of...

NEW DELHI: Opposition parties disrupted proceedings in Lok Sabha and walked out of Rajya Sabha on the first day of the winter session after govt refused to concede their demand to immediately allow a debate on the special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls being conducted by Election Commission.They rejected the stand of parliamentary affairs...

Amritpal’s Parl speech ‘could set five rivers on fire,’ Punjab tells HC CHANDIGARH: Strongly resisting the temporary release of radical Sikh preacher and Khadoor Sahib MP Amritpal Singh, who seeks to attend the ongoing winter session of Lok Sabha, Punjab govt on Monday told Punjab and Haryana high court that even a single speech by...

(Representative image) NEW DELHI: In a move that is causing some concern to the industry and privacy advocates, govt has asked smartphone makers to mandatorily pre-install its Sanchar Saathi app on their devices. Govt says this is being done to strengthen cyber security on the devices and prevent tampering and spoofing of the IMEI (International...

Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro responsed to escalating US pressure, telling thousands of supporters in Caracas that the country “does not want a slave’s peace” as tensions with Washington deepen.Addressing marchers after weeks of rising military activity by the United States, Maduro accused Washington of “testing” Venezuela with a naval deployment that has now entered its...

(AI-generated image used for representation purposes) NEW DELHI: Supreme Court order for pan-India CBI probe into ‘digital arrest’ cases, while signifying the threat from digital scamsters, is important also because the opposition-governed states had withdrawn “general consent” to CBI to probe crimes in their territories.Keeping two other forms of cyber-crime – investment scams and part-time...

(File photo) NEW DELHI: The upcoming winter (Dec-Feb) is likely to be colder in most parts of central India (Madhya Pradesh, north and east Maharashtra and parts of Gujarat) and parts of adjoining northwest (Punjab, Haryana, Delhi, east and southeast Rajasthan, and west and south UP) and peninsular India (Telangana), with below normal day and...