Bengaluru, Jul 5 (PTI) Indian javelin superstar Neeraj Chopra on Saturday clinched the inaugural NC Classic as he realised his dream of hosting and competing in a world class event in front of the home crowd and family members. The 27-year-old double Olympic medallist emerged winner with his third round throw of 86.18m at the Sree Kanteerava Stadium watched by his parents. This was his third straight title, having won in Paris Diamond League (June 20) and Golden Spike in Ostrava, Poland (June ...Read More
New Delhi, Jul 5 (PTI) Test preparatory firm Aakash Educational Services has sent a legal notice to consultancy firm EY, its partners and officials, accusing them of advising rivals in conflict of interest and professional misconduct, the company said on Saturday. Aakash Educational Services Ltd (AESL) has alleged that EY was deeply involved in its financial operations since 2021, including advising on the proposed merger with Think & Learn Private Ltd, which owns the Byju's brand. The test pr...Read More
Mumbai, Jul 5 (PTI) Central Railway has introduced a suburban train in Mumbai with a dedicated and renovated compartment for senior citizens, an official said on Saturday. In a release, CR said the middle luggage compartment in the sixth coach from the Mumbai-end was structurally and aesthetically modified to cater specifically to senior citizens following directives from the Railway Board. The prototype rake has been developed at Central Railway's Matunga Workshop, it added. "This dedicated ...Read More
Kolkata, Jul 5 (PTI) Devotees pulled the chariots of Lord Jagannath, Lord Balabhadra and Devi Subhadra on Saturday as the 'Ulto Rath' (Return Car) festival was celebrated across West Bengal with pomp and gaiety. They congregated in Digha, the coastal town in Purba Medinipur district, where the Rath Yatra of the newly constructed Jagannath temple was celebrated for the first time. In Digha, around 200 km away from Kolkata, the chariots were pulled from 'Masir Bari' (the place of aunt of three s...Read More
Bengaluru, Jul 5 (PTI) Neeraj Chopra achieved yet another feat in his illustrious career on Saturday by becoming the first Indian to compete in an international event as its host, owning the stage in an electrifying atmosphere at the Kanteerava Stadium here. The 27-year-old from Khandra village in Haryana's Panipat, who has won every accolade his sport has to offer, was the cynosure of all eyes as he fulfilled his lifetime dream. It is his way of giving back to the sport and to the fans the ex...Read More
Kolkata, Jul 5 (PTI) A Thai Lion Air flight to Bangkok was grounded at the Kolkata airport in the early hours of Saturday after it developed technical glitches, officials said. The flight with 130 passengers and seven crew on board returned to the parking bay from the runway, they said. The Boeing 737-800 aircraft landed at the Kolkata airport around 1.23 am with 151 passengers on board and was supposed to take off at 2.35 am for Bangkok's Don Mueang International Airport (DMK), they said. Ho...Read More
Patna, Jul 5 (PTI) RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav on Saturday vowed to "confront" the ruling NDA in Bihar, alleging a "conspiracy" to deprive the poor of their right to vote in the upcoming Assembly elections. The young leader was addressing the national council meeting of the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), which marked the party's 28th foundation day. The meeting also formally re-elected his father, Lalu Prasad, as national president. "Lalu ji has always said that the right to vote implies that the ...Read More
New Delhi, Jul 5 (PTI) The Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral roll in Bihar has gathered momentum, with nearly 94 per cent of the enumeration forms distributed among voters and more than 13 per cent collected back from them. The Election Commission (EC) said on Saturday that 1.04 crore or 13.19 per cent enumeration forms have been collected after those were filled or verified by voters. The state has 7.96 crore registered voters and nearly 94 per cent forms have been distributed...Read More
Kolkata, Jul 5 (PTI) East Bengal on Saturday announced that seasoned midfielder Souvik Chakrabarti has extended his contract with the club till the end of the 2026-27 season. East Bengal had finished ninth in the Indian Super League (ISL) standings with just eight wins from 24 matches last season. A cornerstone of the Red and Gold Brigade's leadership group since joining from Hyderabad FC in 2022, Souvik has made 65 top-flight appearances for East Bengal, clocking 4,601 minutes with one goal a...Read More
New Delhi, Jul 5 (PTI) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday paid tributes to former Union minister Ram Vilas Paswan on his birth anniversary, and said his struggle for the rights of Dalits, backward, and the deprived can never be forgotten. His entire life was dedicated to social justice, Modi said on X of the founder of the Lok Janshakti Party. Paswan's son and Union minister Chirag Paswan now heads the main offshoot of the party named Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) following a split led...Read More
New Delhi, Jul 5 (PTI) A six-member Indian squad, including three women, is set to compete at season's fourth and final ISSF World Cup Shotgun stage, starting in Lonato, Italy on Sunday . The qualifying rounds of the men's and women's skeet competition will begin on Sunday, with the first 50 targets on the roster for both events at the at the Trap Concaverde. The athletes come back on Monday for 50 more targets before the final round of 25 targets are played out on Tuesday. Indian hopes will ...Read More
Mumbai, Jul 5 (PTI) Five Maharashtra Navnirman Sena supporters were arrested on Saturday for the attack on investor Sushil Kedia's office in Worli here over the latter's social media post about not learning Marathi and his "kya karna hai bol" dare to Raj Thackeray. Hours after the attack, Kedia apologised for the social post claiming he had overreacted and also professed admiration for Thackeray. Kedia said he had uploaded the post in a wrong state of mind under duress and stress and wished to...Read More
New Delhi, Jul 5 (PTI) The Union Health Ministry is considering deploying the National Joint Outbreak Response Team (NJORT) to Kerala to assist the government in implementing public health measures, following the detection of two Nipah virus cases, sources said on Saturday. The Central Surveillance Unit of the Integrated Disease Surveillance Programme (IDSP), NCDC, is in close contact with the state unit and is actively monitoring the situation, they added. The State Control Room has been acti...Read More
Bengaluru, Jul 5 (PTI) Union Minister Piyush Goyal on Saturday said new technologies will define India's growth story in the coming years. Addressing the IIT Madras Alumni Association's Sangam 2025 event here, he said, "Your science, your technology, combined with this vibrant startup ecosystem, R&D, and innovation, will shape the India growth story of the future." Goyal said India is transforming from a country known for seeking jobs to becoming a nation of job creators. "Of course, in some s...Read More
Patna, Jul 5 (PTI) RJD president Lalu Prasad on Saturday said a survey is being done to identify suitable candidates for the upcoming assembly elections in Bihar, and the names will be finalised by him in consultation with his son Tejashwi Yadav. The 78-year-old leader made the statement while addressing the national council of the party, which he had founded by splitting the Janata Dal. The function also saw him getting the certificate of re-election as its national president. "A survey is un...Read More
Shimla, Jul 5 (PTI) BJP's Mandi MP Kangana Ranaut on Saturday was on her way to the flash floods- and landslide-hit areas of the Himachal Pradesh district, a day after the Congress took potshots that the state party leadership was riled by her absence. As many as 14 people have died and search is on for 31 missing people, as cloudbursts, flash floods and landslides caused massive destruction in Mandi district on Tuesday. Union Health Minister JP Nadda, when asked during a press conference on S...Read More
Mumbai, Jul 5 (PTI) Maharashtra deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Saturday said Raj Thackeray spoke in Marathi's interests but Uddhav Thackeray showed his desperation for power at the cousins' rally to celebrate the government's retreat on the issue of teaching Hindi in schools. Minister Uday Samant, who belongs to the Shinde-led Shiv Sena, similarly sought to distinguish between the two cousins, slamming only Uddhav who leads the rival Shiv Sena (UBT). Earlier in the day, the hitherto es...Read More
Firozabad (UP), Jul 5 (PTI) Six policemen have been suspended in connection with an objectionable comment made on social media by a constable posted in Uttar Pradesh's Firozabad district, an official said on Saturday. Superintendent of Police Saurabh Dixit said on July 2, an objectionable comment regarding former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Akhilesh Yadav was shared on social media. On July 3, Samajwadi Party district unit president Shivraj Singh Yadav and former MLA Azim Bhai met Dixit and s...Read More
New Delhi, Jul 5 (PTI) The Congress on Saturday alleged that the BJP-JDU government in Bihar has failed to maintain law and order in the state and demanded that a special assembly session be convened to discuss this as well as the issue of intensive revision of electoral rolls. The party also alleged that special intensive revision is a "deliberate conspiracy" to help the BJP win the elections. Assembly elections are due in Bihar in the next few months and the opposition parties have strongly ...Read More
Chandigarh, Jul 5 (PTI) The high priests of Takht Sri Patna Sahib in Bihar Saturday pronounced Shiromani Akali Dal chief Sukhbir Singh Badal 'tankhaiya' (guilty of religious punishment) for failing to appear before it and ignoring its directions. Takht Sri Patna Sahib is one of the five temporal seats of Sikhism. The Akal Takht in Amritsar is the supreme temporal seat. In August last year, Badal was pronounced 'tankhaiya' by the Akal Takht, which later in December awarded 'tankhah' (religious ...Read More
MCLEOD GANJ - The Dalai Lama said Saturday he dreamed of living for decades more, as the Buddhist spiritual leader prayed with thousands of exiled Tibetans on the eve of his 90th birthday. Thumping drums and deep horns reverberated from the Indian hilltop temple, as a chanting chorus of red-robed monks and nuns offered long-life prayers for Tenzin Gyatso, who followers believe is the 14th reincarnation of the Dalai Lama. Looking in good health, dressed in traditional maroon monk robes and a fl...Read More
New Delhi, Jul 5 (PTI) Lenders of Jaiprakash Associates Ltd (JAL) have turned down Jaypee Infratech's request to accept its resolution plan to acquire the bankrupt diversified company. Five companies -- Adani Enterprises, Vedanta Group, Dalmia Bharat Cement, Jindal Power and PNC Infratech -- have submitted their resolution plans to acquire JAL. However, lenders of JAL, on June 25, had rejected the resolution plan of Suraksha Group-owned Jaypee Infratech Ltd as the bid was submitted late and wi...Read More
New Delhi, Jul 5 (PTI) Fugitive diamantaire Nirav Modi's younger Brother, Nehal Modi, walked out of a US prison on Thursday after serving a nearly-three-year sentence in a cheating case and was taken into custody the very next day by authorities there on the request of Indian agencies, officials said. The Interpol had issued a Red Notice against Nehal Modi on the request of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in 2021 and an extradition request was also sent in 2022, but it could not be ex...Read More
Kozhikode (Kerala), Jul 5 (PTI) Muhammadali who had last month confessed to killing someone in 1986, when he was a teenager, had committed another murder three years after that, police said on Saturday. A senior officer of Kozhikode police said that after the accused confessed to both murders in June, an FIR under section 302 IPC was registered right then in connection with the 1986 incident and he was remanded in judicial custody. "But his claims regarding the second alleged murder are yet to...Read More
Anand (Gujarat), Jul 5 (PTI) Union Home and Cooperation Minister Amit Shah on Saturday said India's first national university for cooperatives coming up in Gujarat will work to end nepotism as only persons trained by it will get jobs in this sector in the future. Shah was addressing a gathering at the campus of Anand Agriculture University after laying the foundation stone of Tribhuvan Sahkari University (TSU) that will be built on a 125-acre plot at a cost of Rs 500 crore. The university has ...Read More
Bhagalpur: Tight security arrangements have been made across Bhagalpur district for Muharram. The district administration has prohibited playing of disc jockey (DJ) and displaying of banned weapons during the Muharram processions, in view of the district being a communally sensitive. Magistrates and static police forces have been deployed at 416 places and police patrolling has been intensified in different areas under the supervision of SHOs of police stations in the district."Ten control rooms...Read More
Mumbai, Jul 5 (PTI) Union minister Nitin Gadkari on Saturday expressed concern over the "rising" number of poor, and said wealth was getting concentrated in the hands of some affluent people. There is a need for decentralisation of wealth, Gadkari said during an event in Nagpur, where he touched upon a range of issues, including agriculture, manufacturing, taxation and public-private partnerships in infrastructure development. "Slowly the number of poor people is increasing and wealth is getti...Read More
Rayachoti (Andhra Pradesh), Jul 5 (PTI) The Andhra Pradesh police on Saturday identified one of the two terror suspects arrested here recently by Tamil Nadu police as a "big fish", with advanced bomb making skills. Kurnool Range Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of Police Koya Praveen said Abubacker Siddique operated as a lone wolf, providing his terror expertise to those who shared his radical ideology and was influenced by radical fugitive preacher Zakir Naik. "This fellow (Siddique) whom we ca...Read More
New Delhi, Jul 5 (PTI) The Delhi Police have arrested two members of the Himanshu Bhau gang, wanted in a murder case in Haryana, following an encounter on Saturday morning, police said. "The encounter took place in the Narela Industrial Area of Outer North Delhi. Acting on a tip-off, a Special Cell team intercepted the duo, who were riding a motorcycle. Instead of stopping, the accused opened fire at the police team. In retaliatory firing, both men suffered bullet injuries to their legs and wer...Read More
Lucknow, Jul 5 (PTI) Amid a language row in some states, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Saturday said his party has always been in favour of Indian languages and all these should be respected. He also said that there has been a long history of association of Maratha people with Uttar Pradesh. Yadav's remarks came barely a few hours after Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray and cousin and MNS head Raj Thackeray shared a political stage for the first time after two decades on the iss...Read More