Spread the love The HPCA Stadium in Dharamsala was able to host the first ODI between India and Afghanistan despite steady rain at the start. (ANI) TimesofIndia. com in Dharamsala: Around 5pm on Saturday, Rohit Sharma was the first Indian cricketer to walk out at the HPCA Stadium in Dharamsala. Relentless rain delayed the start of the first ODI between...
Who is Sarpreet? First Indian origin player to start a FIFA World Cup match
Spread the love New Zealand’s Sarpreet Singh (10) battles for the ball (AP Photo/Andre Penner) NEW DELHI: New Zealand midfielder Sarpreet Singh created history by becoming the first player of Indian origin to start a FIFA World Cup match. Coach Darren Bazeley kept faith in him until he was substituted in the 90th minute. New Zealand will next face Egypt...
Twisha Sharma death case: Husband, mother-in-law get 14-day custody extension
Spread the love BHOPAL: A Bhopal court on Tuesday extended the judicial custody of model Twisha Sharma’s husband, Samarth Singh, and her mother-in-law, former judge Giribala Singh, by 14 days in connection with Twisha’s death and an alleged dowry harassment case.Ankur Pandey, counsel for Twisha Sharma’s family, told PTI that both accused attended the hearing virtually before Judge Shobhana Bhalave’s...
Mamata files plea in Calcutta high court challenging Bhabanipur poll result
Spread the love KOLKATA: Former West Bengal chief minister and Trinamool Congress (TMC) chief Mamata Banerjee filed a plea in the Calcutta high court on Tuesday, challenging the result of the assembly election in Bhabanipur, where she suffered a surprise defeat to BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari.Banerjee lost the Bhabanipur seat by 15,105 votes, marking one of the biggest setbacks of...
‘Had to take drastic step as …’: NTA chief on temporary Telegram ban ahead of NEET retest
Spread the love The National Testing Agency (NTA) has defended its decision to temporarily block Telegram during the re-NEET examination process, saying the messaging platform was being extensively misused by fraudsters to circulate fake question papers and scam students.Speaking on the issue to ANI, NTA Director General Abhishek Singh said the move was necessary to protect candidates from being exploited...
Call drops, frozen payments and buffering screens are the new traffic jams of India’s cities
Spread the love A TRAI assessment reveals inconsistent mobile network performance on Delhi-NCR’s Metro and Namo Bharat corridors, impacting commuters’ daily digital lives. (AI image) Uninterrupted connectivity is becoming as essential to urban mobility as trains and roads as work, payments and entertainment move online. The modern Indian city commuter carries more than a smartphone. He carries his office, his...
‘Collapsing tunnels, booby-trapping entrances’: How Iran is shielding its near bomb-grade uranium stockpile
Spread the love Satellite photo of Iran from Maxar Technologies. (AP photo) Iran has significantly strengthened protections around its stockpile of near bomb-grade uranium in recent weeks, reportedly collapsing access tunnels and laying explosive mines around key nuclear sites.According to CNN, Iran has dramatically escalated efforts to make collapsing tunnels and booby-trapping entrances with explosive mines near uranium.The move has...
Elon Musk responds as French President praises UK’s ban on social media for kids
Spread the love Elon Musk has escalated his criticism of the UK’s planned social media ban for children under 16, responding sharply to French President Emmanuel Macron after the French leader praised the move. After Macron welcomed Britain’s decision and wrote on X, “Thanks for joining the movement,” Musk replied “Of a government surveillance state.” The exchange comes as UK...
Flight of the ‘seagull’: Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman in space 63 years ago today
Spread the love Image: Nasa On the morning of June 16, 1963, a 26-year-old textile worker from the Yaroslavl region of Russia climbed into a capsule called Vostok 6 and, within hours, became the first woman to leave Earth.Valentina Tereshkova was not a military pilot. She had no engineering degree. What she had was nerve, a parachute licence, and the...
Why ‘military-grade’ security? Annamalai, BJP leader lock horns over NEET-UG re-exam
Spread the love File photo NEW DELHI: Ex-BJP Tamil Nadu state president K Annamalai questioned the high-level security for NEET-UG re-exam scheduled for June 21. He said that the involvement of CRPF, CISF along with multi-level oversight with direct monitoring from the Prime Minister’s office seemed as if the arrangements were to “buy high-level, classified, military-grade software.“He said that increased...
