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KOLKATA: Even earning the first point in this IPL could not bring a smile on the faces of those in the Kolkata Knight Riders camp.Despite the one point gained from the washout against Punjab Kings, the 3.4 overs of play on Monday highlighted some added concerns. Struggling to get their house in order, KKR opted to take some bold calls by leaving out Varun Chakravarthy and Sunil Narine. However, the outcome of that decision remained inconclusive, although it is likely that they will be back in ac ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: A passenger, who arrived from Bangkok to Indira Gandhi International Airport on March 31, has been arrested after marijuana worth nearly Rs 13 crore was found in his possession. Customs officials said, "When the baggage of a passenger was subjected to X-ray screening, it indicated suspicious contents. Upon examination, 13 polybags were found containing a green coloured substance, suspected to be marijuana." The net weight of the seized product was 12,910 grams with officials estimatin ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: "What was David Miller thinking?" "Why didn't he run?" Those questions will dominate conversations after Delhi Capitals suffered a heartbreaking one-run defeat to Gujarat Titans in IPL 2026. But beyond the drama and debate, it was Axar Patel's touching post-match gesture that truly stood out.At the Arun Jaitley Stadium on Wednesday, Miller endured a whirlwind night that ended in agony. The South African nearly pulled off one of the great heists, smashing an unbeaten 41 off just 20 bal ...Read More >
Kolkata: India may exceed RBI's GDP growth projection for 2026-27, the chairman of the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister, S Mahendra Dev, said on Wednesday. Speaking at an interactive session with members of the Bharat Chamber of Commerce in Kolkata, he expressed confidence that the economy could achieve 7% growth against the RBI's projection of 6.9%."I am more positive about growth and hoping for 7%. Last year we achieved 7.6%, but many said it would not exceed 7%. Our economy has ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: In the zero-sum world of elite chess, the camaraderie between compatriots often has to be set aside at the board. This was evident on Wednesday at the Cap St Georges Hotel & Resort as India's two sensations, R Vaishali and Divya Deshmukh, faced off in a crucial Round 9 encounter at the Women's Candidates.In what can be labelled as an apt amalgam of tactical precision and sheer domination, Vaishali dismantled Divya's defence in just 31 moves to seize the co-lead in the Women's section. ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: Delhi Police has arrested a 49-year-old restaurateur for allegedly providing mule accounts to scammers involved in digital-arrest cases. Police said the accused, Mohammad Javed, is the son of the founder of well-known restaurant chain Khan Chacha, which was later acquired by another businessman.Javed's brother, too, has been bound down in connection with the case. Police said the case involves fraudulent transactions totalling around Rs 3.3 crore, a part of which was routed through th ...Read More >
BHOPAL/JABALPUR: Straight out of a Hollywood-style survival script, an inter-state thief hid underwater fornearly five hours using a lotus stem to breathe before being finally nabbed by the Railway Protection Force (RPF) with the help of divers. One of themost wanted criminals on Indian Railways' radar, investigators suspect his role in more than 500 train theft cases over the last decade.RPF officials identified him as Harvinder Singh (32), a resident of Bijnor in Uttar Pradesh, after matching ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: 'What was he thinking?'. 'What was he doing?'. 'Why didn't he run?' These were some of the questions that did the rounds in the aftermath of Delhi Capitals' one-run loss against Gujarat Titans in the ongoing IPL 2026.The 'he' in question is David Miller. The South African batter had a whirlwind experience at the Arun Jaitley Stadium on Wednesday.Go Beyond The Boundary with our YouTube channel. SUBSCRIBE NOW!First, while fielding, he picked up an injury on his right hand when he made a ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: A meeting between TMC and Election Commission on Wednesday expectedly ended in acrimony, lasting barely 7-8 minutes and sparking a bitter war of words. EC sources accused party MP Derek O' Brien of "shouting at EC functionaries and not allowing chief election commissioner Gyanesh Kumar to speak", while TMC slammed the CEC for reportedly asking the party delegation to "get lost". The meeting took place against the backdrop of deletion of lakhs of voters in West Bengal and the rejection ...Read More >
Chennai: The anti-corruption bureau of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), Chennai, arrested Yellamilli Rinkesh, a superintendent, and Ramkesh Meena, an inspector of Goods and Services Tax (GST) in connection with a bribery case in the Ranipet Range.CBI said a case was registered on Tuesday against the superintendent following a complaint that he demanded a bribe of 30,000 to facilitate clearance of a GST registration. After negotiations, he agreed to accept 15,000 from the complainant.Ac ...Read More >
CHENNAI: Ahead of the April 23 election for the 234-member Tamil Nadu assembly, the Election Commission of India on Wednesday replaced the state's chief secretary, N Muruganandam, with senior bureaucrat M Sai Kumar and DGP (armed police, vigilance and anti-corruption) S Davidson Devasirvatham with Sandeep Mittal, a 1995-batch IPS officer, a decision that drew an angry reaction from CM M K Stalin.The move follows multiple complaints from the opposition, alleging that the state's administrative ma ...Read More >
KOLKATA: The Bhowanipore assembly constituency - the high-profile seat where Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee is pitted against BJP's Suvendu Adhikari - has seen its electorate shrink by nearly 25% following the SIR of the electoral roll.Of the total 51,004 deletions, 23.3% are Muslims and 76.7% are non-Muslims.Before the SIR process, Bhowanipore had 2,06,295 voters. In the first phase, 44,787 names were removed under categories such as absent, shifted, deceased, duplicate, or unmapped. A second round ...Read More >
HYDERABAD: Pawan Khera, AICC media and publicity department chairperson, has moved Telangana HC seeking anticipatory bail in a case registered by Guwahati police over his allegations against Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma's wife. The plea will be heard on Thursday. Khera was booked under various BNS sections, including false information, forgery, cheating, criminal intimidation and conspiracy. In his April 7 petition, he said he has not been furnished a copy of the FIR and the allegations do not c ...Read More >
Chennai: India's energy transition is gathering remarkable pace, with milestones being announced regularly. A day after highlighting progress in advanced nuclear technology, the renewable energy sector announced its highest-ever annual new capacity addition -- 50.9 GW (excluding large hydro) in the fiscal year ending March 2026. The surge has been led by solar power, whose installed capacity has now crossed 150 GW, with a record annual addition of 44.6 GW in FY26.The recent momentum reflects a s ...Read More >
Chandigarh: Punjab industries minister Sanjeev Arora on Wednesday announced the establishment of a state-of-the-art multipurpose exhibition and convention centre in Mohali. The facility will be be developed in two stages, with the first phase slated for completion by Dec 31 and the final phase to be finished a year later.Located in the heart of Mohali's IT City, the Rs 250-crore project spans 14 acres in Sector 83, near Plaksha University and the Infosys campus. It is being developed under a pub ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: Government on Wednesday cleared the draft bills for amendments to the women's reservation law, paving the way for Parliament to take up the legislations for implementation of 33% reservation for them in Lok Sabha and state assemblies from 2029.The draft bills, approved by the cabinet, will be introduced in the special Parliament session starting April 16. TOI has learnt that three bills will be introduced - Constitution (131st Amendment) Bill, Delimitation Bill and a separate legislat ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: Acknowledging rampant misuse of public interest litigation for ulterior motives or for pursuing pet agendas, SC on Wednesday said it would have dismissed a PIL petition if it had been filed by a lawyers' body presently challenging the Sabarimala custom of barring entry of women of menstruating age.This remark came from a bench of CJI Surya Kant, Justices B V Nagarathna, M M Sundresh, Ahsanuddin Amanullah, Aravind Kumar, A G Masih, P B Varale, R Mahadevan and Joymalya Bagchi when solic ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: In a bid to provide reprieve to airlines affected by the US-Iran war, the aviation ministry has directed all 34 major airports to reduce landing and parking charges for domestic flights by 25% for three months. Accordingly, Airports Economic Regulatory Authority on Tuesday issued an order directing the operators of airports in Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad and others to do so with immediate effect. With assembly elections in crucial states like Kerala and West Bengal on the hori ...Read More >
Bengaluru: A special court of National Investigation Agency (NIA) in Bengaluru Wednesday convicted and sentenced four Bangladeshi nationals in a transnational human trafficking case. The convicts are Zakir Khan, Badal Houladar, Kabir Talukdar and Mohammed Bachchu Gharami. They were sentenced to three years' rigorous imprisonment and fined Rs 20,000 each under provisions of Foreigners Act and Passports (Entry into India) Act.The convicts pleaded guilty of illegally entering India from Bangladesh ...Read More >
Bengaluru: Namma Metro has slipped to third place in terms of operational network length, losing its position as the country's second-largest system to Mumbai Metro.The shift comes after Mumbai Metro commissioned new corridors, including the Dahisar-Kashigaon stretch and the first section of Line 2B (Mandale to Diamond Garden), extending connectivity to Thane district and linking the eastern suburbs.With the addition of roughly 10 km, Mumbai's operational network has now crossed the 100-km mark, ...Read More >
New Delhi: A man was arrested and at least 32 students were bound down after Delhi Police busted an alleged exam-solving racket operating from an apartment in Dwarka, officials said on Wednesday.The group is suspected of using remote desktop applications to enable candidates to cheat in online entrance examinations for top govt and private colleges in Delhi and other states.According to police, the students belonged to some of the country's leading institutions, including IIT, Delhi Technologica ...Read More >
Chandigarh: The Haryana cabinet on Wednesday approved a 35% hike in minimum wages across categories of workers, with the monthly wage for unskilled labourers rising from Rs 11,274.60 to Rs 15,220.The revised rates, approved at a cabinet meeting chaired by chief minister Nayab Singh Saini, will come into effect from April 1, 2026, labour minister Anil Vij said.Under the new structure, the monthly wages of semi-skilled workers have been raised from Rs 12,430.18 to Rs 16,780.74, while those of skil ...Read More >
Panaji: The Bombay high court on Wednesday stopped the Election Commission (EC) from proceeding with the Ponda bypoll scheduled for Thursday, the first time in Goan political history that an assembly election was cancelled on the orders of a court.After pronouncing the judgment, the division bench of justices Valmiki Menezes and Amit Jamsandekar rejected the EC's plea to stay its order for two weeks on the grounds that the election process had started, 171 voters already voted via postal ballots ...Read More >
Chandigarh: The Haryana cabinet on Wednesday approved two key welfare and employment measures, enhancing horizontal reservation for former Agniveers in select state govt posts and reserving 33% fair price shops (FPS) for women.At a meeting chaired by chief minister Nayab Singh Saini, the cabinet approved an amendment to its policy on ex-Agniveers, increasing the existing 10% horizontal reservation to 20% in posts such as forest guard, warder and mining guard.The move follows a recommendation fro ...Read More >
Shillong: CM Conrad K Sangma and his deputy Prestone Tynsong, accompanied by Catholic Bishops' Conference of India (CBCI) representatives, called on Union minority affairs minister Kiren Rijiju in New Delhi on Wednesday, to discuss concerns regarding the proposed Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA) Amendment Bill.The delegation, led by CBCI president Anthony Cardinal Poola and secretary general Anil Joseph Thomas Couto, highlighted the 'vital role' played by foreign-funded institutions in ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: Gujarat Titans finally got their first win of IPL 2026 after a dramatic last-over finish against Delhi Capitals. Chasing 211, Delhi fell just one run short despite a strong effort, ending at 209/8. The match turned on a crucial moment when David Miller refused a single late in the final over, a decision that proved costly.Delhi looked in control towards the end, especially with Miller hitting big shots and bringing the equation down quickly. However, the game changed in the final over ...Read More >
An online portal -- www.se.census.gov.in -- will go live on Apr 16Gurgaon: As the Census-2027 process begins, this will be the first time when people can fill their details on their own -- either through the online portal or through a dedicated mobile application.With Gurgaon launching the process with self-enumeration from April 16, deputy commissioner Ajay Kumar has directed officials to spread awareness about this digital option across all villages and wards to ensure "maximum citizen partici ...Read More >
Bhubaneswar: Abusive posts on social media may soon invite stringent legal action, state law minister Prithiviraj Harichandan warned on Wednesday as he said that the govt is planning to introduce a law in this regard.Underlining the state govt's intent to curb the growing misuse of digital platforms, Harichandan, while addressing media persons here, said, "There are increasing instances of offensive and defamatory content on social media platforms and the govt has taken serious note of it. Peopl ...Read More >
Guwahati: With all its 126 assembly constituencies redrawn and the electoral balance reconfigured, Assam goes to the polls on Thursday in a single-phase election to choose the 16th legislative assembly.This first election after the delimitation exercise of 2023 will decide whether the state retains a BJP-led alliance for a third successive term or brings back Congress after a decade-long gapPolls in Assam are being held in a single phase after a gap of 25 years. According to the Election Commiss ...Read More >
Patna: Bihar is likely to get a new govt around mid April, shortly after the end of 'kharmas', the inauspicious period that concludes on April 14.Some NDA leaders said on Wednesday the swearing-in could be pushed further. "The govt formation may be deferred till April 20, the auspicious day of Akshay Tritiya," they said.According to NDA sources, the broad formula for the BJP-led govt in Bihar has almost been finalised. The final shape is expected to emerge during CM Nitish Kumar's Delhi visit be ...Read More >
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