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Hubli (Karnataka), Nov 17 (PTI) Promising Ravichandran Smaran hit an unbeaten 227 and was being supported well by the lower-order to put Karnataka in the driver's seat on the second day of their Ranji Trophy Group B match against Chandigarh here on Monday. Resuming at the overnight personal score of 110 with Karnataka at 298 for 5, Smaran stitched crucial partnerships with Shreyas Gopal (62), Vidyadhar Patel (30) and Shikahr Shetty (59) as Karnataka declared at a mammoth 547 for 8 in 160 overs. ...Read More >
Lucknow, Nov 17 (PTI) Samajwadi Party (SP) president Akhilesh Yadav on Monday criticised the conviction of senior party leader Mohammad Azam Khan and his son in a PAN card case, accusing the BJP of "injustice and oppression" in "arrogance of power" In a post on X, Yadav wrote in Hindi, "Those who cross all limits of injustice and oppression in the arrogance of power eventually fall into the grip of nature's verdict and meet a bad end. Everyone is watching everything." His remarks came shortly af ...Read More >
Shillong, Nov 17 (PTI) Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma on Monday announced that the state government will sanction Rs 50 crore this month to the Airports Authority of India (AAI) for the development of the Airport at Jengjal in West Garo Hills district. The CM made this announcement at a function after inaugurating a new police station building in West Garo Hills. The airport, officially known as Baljek Airport, has remained unutilised for years and is currently in a dilapidated condi ...Read More >
Bokaro (Jharkhand), Nov 17 (PTI) A 45-year-old woman was trampled to death by a herd of elephants in Jharkhand's Bokaro district, a forest official said on Monday. The incident occurred at Kharkanda village, located in a dense forest under Jageshwar Bihar police outpost, on Sunday night. The herd also damaged several houses in the village, he said. The deceased has been identified as Sanjho Devi. Divisional forest officer (DFO) Sandeep Shinde said a herd of 42 elephants was roaming within the ...Read More >
New Delhi, Nov 17 (PTI) Indian Institute of Technology, Madras and Indian Railways Finance Corporation (IRFC) have set up country's first Single Cell Omics Translational (SCOT) research laboratory, officials said on Monday. Equipped with state-of-the-art instrumentation, the SCOT lab will facilitate early diagnosis, disease prognosis, biomarker discovery and drug screening across a spectrum of diseases -- including cancer, cardiovascular, infectious, inflammatory, metabolic, and other non-commu ...Read More >
New Delhi, Nov 17 (PTI) Shares of IRB Infrastructure Developers on Monday climbed 4 per cent after the company bagged a package toll-operate and transfer (TOT) project from NHAI in Uttar Pradesh for Rs 9,270 crore. The company's stock rose 3.78 per cent to close at Rs 44.53 apiece on the BSE. On the NSE, it went up by 3.12 per cent to settle at Rs 44.30 per piece. In the intraday session, the scrip of the company jumped 7.04 per cent and 6.96 per cent to hit a high of Rs 45.93 and 45.95 per s ...Read More >
Hyderabad, Nov 17 (PTI) As many as 18 members of a family across three generations were in a bus involved in a deadly accident with an oil tanker in Saudi Arabia, relatives said here on Monday. Shaik Nazeeruddin, a retired railway employee, was travelling in the ill-fated bus along with his wife, son, three daughters and grandchildren on his way to Madina, his nephew Mohammed Aslam said. "Whether it was an accident or what happened we do not know, but total 18 members- Shaik Nazeeruddin, his s ...Read More >
Kolkata, Nov 17 (PTI) A section of candidates, who wrote the teacher recruitment examination conducted by the SSC but failed to secure the cut-off mark required for interview even after scoring high marks, on Monday held a protest march in Kolkata. They marched from Karunamoyee Crossing towards Bikash Bhavan, the education department headquarters in Salt Lake near here, but the police stopped them soon after near Central Park, saying they did not have permission to hold the rally. They sat wher ...Read More >
New Delhi, Nov 17 (PTI) AstraZeneca Pharma on Monday said it has tied up with Sun Pharma for enhancing availability of a drug indicated for the treatment of Hyperkalaemia. The agreement is aimed at further accelerating availability of Sodium Zirconium Cyclosilicate (SZC), an innovative and highly effective treatment for Hyperkalaemia, to more patients across India. Under the agreement, both companies will promote, market & distribute SZC in India under different brand names; AstraZeneca will m ...Read More >
New Delhi, Nov 17 (PTI) Former India opener Abhinav Mukund believes the pressure on Shubman Gill has reached a critical point as he called for split captaincy in the wake of India's opening Test defeat to South Africa. With Gill absent in the second innings due to neck spasm, India were bowled out for 93 in their chase of 124. South Africa sealed a 30-run win inside three days for their first Test victory in India in 15 years. "At home, everyone expects India to win -- no questions asked," Muk ...Read More >
Bengaluru, Nov 17 (PTI) In what is said to be the largest digital arrest scam in Karnataka, a 57-year-old woman here allegedly lost about Rs 32 crore in a sophisticated "digital arrest" scam that lasted over six months, following which a case has been registered. Posing as CBI officers, the fraudsters enforced what is called as "digital arrest" by holding her under constant Skype surveillance. They used threats of arrest to coerce her into sharing all financial details and to make 187 bank tran ...Read More >
Kolkata, Nov 17 (PTI) Senior BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari on Monday criticised the TMC government over the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, alleging a "deep nexus involving a section of BLOs and BDOs" aimed at helping the Trinamool Congress "sabotage" the Election Commission's efforts to weed out "fake voters, illegal migrants". Addressing a press conference at the state BJP headquarters, Adhikari said the SIR exercise had triggered "panic" within the TMC, prompting " ...Read More >
Gorakhpur, Nov 16 (PTI) A massive fire erupted at the Waterways Restaurant & Banquet near the Taramandal Buddhist Museum here on Sunday, leaving one staff member dead and causing extensive property damage, officials said. The blaze, which started around 5 am, quickly spread through the entire three-storey building, with thick smoke engulfing the area and triggering panic among locals. Chief Fire Officer Santosh Kumar said the fire control room received an alert at 5:16 am, following which four ...Read More >
Patna, Nov 16 (PTI) The opposition CPI(ML) Liberation general secretary Dipankar Bhattacharya on Sunday claimed that the outcome of the Bihar assembly elections is "abnormal" and it was the result of three "experiments". The experiments, according to him, are the transfer of Rs 10,000 to women as the first instalment of Mahila Rojgar Yojana, deletion and addition of names in the SIR exercise, and transfer of land at a throwaway price to a corporate house. The opposition party, a constituent of ...Read More >
Shajapur (MP): Madhya Pradesh Minister and BJP leader Inder Singh Parmar has triggered a row by calling social reformer Raja Ram Mohan Roy, an "agent of the British" who started a "vicious cycle of religious conversion". After facing outrage for his comment, the state Higher Education Minister on Sunday issued an apology, claiming it was a "slip of the tongue". Parmar made the controversial comment during an event held in Agar Malwa district on the 150th birth anniversary of tribal icon Birsa ...Read More >
Srinagar/New Delhi, Nov 16 (PTI) Preliminary investigations into the accidental explosion that ripped through the Nowgam police station late Friday night, killing nine people, suggest that the use of excessive lighting by the forensic team may have triggered the massive blast, officials said Sunday. The explosion, which authorities maintain was an accident and not a terror attack, occurred around 11:20 pm while a team was extracting samples from the final boxes of seized explosive material tran ...Read More >
Patna, Nov 16 (PTI) Claiming that she was "cursed at" for donating a "dirty kidney" to her father Lalu Prasad in exchange for money and party ticket, Rohini Acharya on Sunday said "she has been made an orphan" and advised all married women to refrain from saving "your God-like father if he has a son". In an emotional outburst, Acharya, in a series of posts on X, said that "may no household give birth to a girl with a fate like that of Rohini". The posts came a day after her announcement that s ...Read More >
New Delhi, Nov 16 (PTI) Nearly half of Indian enterprises have moved beyond AI pilots to active deployment, with 47 per cent reporting multiple Generative AI use cases now live in production, according to a joint EY-CII report. However, despite strong belief in AI's promise, investment levels remain conservative, with more than 95 per cent of firms maintaining AI and ML budgets below 20 per cent of overall IT spending. "...nearly half of Indian enterprises (47 per cent) now have multiple Gener ...Read More >
Hyderabad, Nov 15 (PTI) Filmmaker S S Rajamouli on Saturday unveiled the title of his next mega project, "Varanasi", at a grand fan event held at Ramoji Film City in the presence of its stars Mahesh Babu, Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Prithviraj Sukumaran. The film marks Rajamouli's first collaboration with Telugu superstar Babu, who plays the lead role of Rudhra. It will be released worldwide in January 2027, coinciding with the festival of Sankranti. The grand "Globe Trotter" event drew about 50 ...Read More >
New Delhi, Nov 14 (PTI) After the Delhi government launched inter-state electric bus services to two cities and plans further expansion, it will also install electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure at the city's three major interstate bus terminals (ISBTs), officials said. The Delhi Transport Infrastructure Development Corporation (DTC) has floated a tender for the supply and installation of chargers and the required infrastructure at the three ISBTs -- Kashmere Gate, Sarai Kale Khan, and ...Read More >
Visakhapatnam, Nov 14 (PTI) Andhra Pradesh and Singapore governments on Friday signed a deal on urban governance, sustainable development, and flight services between Vijayawada and the city-state at the 30th CII Partnership Summit here. Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu said Singapore's government and companies operate on innovative ideas, and that Andhra Pradesh is keen to collaborate with such entities. "Singapore and Andhra Pradesh governments sealed the deal in the presence of Chief Mini ...Read More >
Patna, Nov 14 (PTI) Before launching into the Bihar assembly elections, the celebrated former poll strategist Prashant Kishor had made two predictions, one about his Jan Suraaj Party and the other about the JD(U), of which he is a former national vice president. His prediction of "arsh par ya farsh par" (either sky high or down to dust) for his own party has, much to his chagrin, come true, though JD(U) cadres, including its supreme leader Nitish Kumar, the Bihar Chief Minister, may ridicule hi ...Read More >
New Delhi, Nov 14 (PTI) A Delhi court on Friday allowed the ED 14 days' custody of Gurugram builder and director of the Ocean Seven Buildtech Pvt Ltd (OSBPL), Swaraj Singh Yadav, in an alleged money-laundering case. Yadav was produced at the residence of Additional Sessions Judge Shefali Barnala Tandon around 2:25 am on Friday after being arrested in a money-laundering case linked to allotments made under Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY), the Union government's flagship scheme. The agency sai ...Read More >
Ahmedabad, Nov 14 (PTI) Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel and state BJP chief Jagdish Vishwakarma on Friday congratulated Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his "politics of development" for the party's resounding win in Bihar assembly polls. Union Jal Shakti minister and former Gujarat BJP president CR Paatil said instead of indulging in caste-based electoral politics, which is common in Bihar, PM Modi sought votes solely on the basis of development. Addressing a press conference at the st ...Read More >
Srinagar, Nov 14 (PTI) The ruling National Conference (NC) candidate from the Nagrota assembly segment was among 23 candidates who forfeited their deposits in the bypolls to the two assembly seats of the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly, for which the results were declared on Friday. In the Nagrota assembly seat in Jammu, eight candidates out of 10 forfeited their deposits. The candidates who lost their deposits included the ruling party's Shamim Begum. A candidate forfeits the deposit i ...Read More >
Patna, Nov 14 (PTI) Riding on the clear trends of Bihar Assembly polls which pointed towards a landslide victory of the NDA alliance over the Mahagathbandhan, Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) chief Chirag Paswan said on Friday that he firmly believed that Nitish Kumar would continue to remain the state's chief minister. Paswan attributed the "arrogance" of the Tejaswai Yadav-Rahul Gandhi-led opposition alliance for its thumping defeat and stated that the people's "faith in the unity of NDA partn ...Read More >
New Delhi, Nov 14 (PTI) The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to examine a plea of former Tamil Nadu minister V Senthil Balaji seeking relaxation of his bail conditions in the money laundering case related to the alleged cash-for-job scam in the state. A bench of Justices Surya Kant and Joymalya Bagchi issued notice to the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on the plea of Balaji and sought its response in 10 days. The matter has been posted for hearing on December 1. Senior advocates Kapil Sibal and Na ...Read More >
Patna, Nov 14 (PTI) Vikassheel Insaan Party (VIP) founder Mukesh Sahani on Friday attributed his party's rout in the Bihar assembly polls to NDA's aggressive cash outreach to women voters, as the INDIA bloc ally failed to take a lead in any of the 12 seats it contested. Speaking to PTI Video shortly after trends confirmed the VIP's wipeout, despite his projection as the alliance's deputy chief ministerial face, Sahani insisted that the verdict was the "people's mandate", not a reflection of org ...Read More >
New Delhi, Nov 14 (PTI) Inox Wind Ltd (IWL) on Friday posted 43 per cent rise in consolidated net profit to Rs 121 crore for September quarter FY26, mainly on the back of higher revenues. The company had logged a net profit of Rs 84 crore a year ago, a statement said. Revenue rose to Rs 1,162 crore in the quarter from Rs 744 crore in the same period a year ago. IWL's order execution during the quarter increased to 202 MW, with order book at 3.2 GW providing revenue visibility of 18-24 months. ...Read More >
Visakhapatnam, Nov 14 (PTI) Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal on Friday said India is negotiating free trade agreements at present with countries, including the US, European Union, New Zealand, Oman, Peru and Chile. He also said that the India Trade Promotion Organisation (ITPO) would be happy to join hands with the Andhra Pradesh government to develop a world class convention centre - Andhra Mandapam - here like Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi. The minister added that lowering trade ba ...Read More >
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