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NEW DELHI: Kolkata Knight Riders dominated proceedings at the IPL players' auction on Tuesday, making two headline signings by spending Rs 25.20 crore on Australian all-rounder Cameron Green and Rs 18 crore to secure Sri Lankan fast bowler Matheesha Pathirana. While big money flowed for overseas stars, Indian batters Prithvi Shaw and Sarfaraz Khan were among the notable names to remain unsold despite strong recent performances.Green's acquisition rewrote the record books as he went past fellow A ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: Punjab Kings enter the IPL auction with a purse of Rs 11.50 crore and four slots to fill, including two overseas positions, as the franchise looks to make final tweaks to its squad. PBKS have released a few high-profile names, most notably Glenn Maxwell, along with Josh Inglis, Aaron Hardie and Kyle Jamieson, indicating a clear shift in combination and overseas balance ahead of the new season.The Kings have retained a strong and well-rounded core, led by skipper Shreyas Iyer. The batt ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: Rajasthan Royals head into the IPL auction with a purse of Rs 16.05 crore and nine slots to fill, including one overseas position, following a reshuffle that has raised eyebrows across the league. The Royals have released several prominent names, most notably former captain Sanju Samson, along with Nitish Rana, Akash Madhwal, Maheesh Theekshana and Wanindu Hasaranga, signalling a significant shift in team strategy ahead of the new season.Despite the exits, Rajasthan have retained a st ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: Goa nightclub owners Saurabh and Gaurav Luthra, wanted in connection with the December 6 fire that claimed 25 lives, were brought back to India from Bangkok on an emergency certificate on Tuesday. As reported by TOI, the brothers boarded an IndiGo flight and arrived at Indira Gandhi International Airport at around 2.10 pm. Earlier, they were seen wearing masks and surrounded by immigration and security officials at Thailand airport. Following their arrival, the duo is to be produced b ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: India's teenage batting sensation Vaibhav Suryavanshi once again lit up the ACC Under-19 Asia Cup with his power-hitting on Tuesday at The Sevens Stadium in Dubai, smashing three sixes and five fours to reach a rapid fifty off just 25 balls against Malaysia.Go Beyond The Boundary with our YouTube channel. SUBSCRIBE NOW!Sent in to bat, India's innings got off to a shaky start as captain Ayush Mhatre (14) and Vihaan Malhotra (7) fell cheaply inside the first five overs, leaving India re ...Read More >
Delhi Air Pollution: IGI Airport issues fog advisory, warns of possible flight delays The Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport on Tuesday morning issued a fog advisory, warning passengers of possible disruptions to flight operations due to reduced visibility in Delhi. In an X post at around 6:06 AM, the airport stated that while flight operations were steadily recovering, delays could persist for certain departures and arrivals, and travellers were advised to contact their respective airli ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: Football legend Lionel Messi on Tuesday departed Jamnagar after visiting Vantara, the wildlife rescue and conservation centre, bringing the curtain down on his much-celebrated GOAT India Tour 2025. Hosted by Anant Ambani at Vantara, the visit marked Messi's final stop before his exit from the country, capping a tour that drew massive crowds and unprecedented attention across four major Indian cities.Go Beyond The Boundary with our YouTube channel. SUBSCRIBE NOW!Jamnagar followed a whi ...Read More >
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: About 25 lakh voters in the state are likely to be removed from the electoral rolls following the special intensive revision (SIR). Chief electoral officer (CEO) Rathan U Kelkar told an all-party meeting here on Monday that the enumeration forms of around 25 lakh people distributed as part of SIR had not been returned for digitisation.All parties, except BJP, have raised objections to the move and they urged the Election Commission to release the names of those likely to be e ...Read More >
PATNA: A newly recruited AYUSH doctor in Bihar was taken aback on Monday when Chief Minister Nitish Kumar pulled the hijab (veil) off her face, while she was receiving her letter of appointment.The incident, a video clip of which has gone viral on social media, took place at 'Samvad', the CM's secretariat, where appointment letters were given away to more than 1,000 AYUSH doctors.PTI could not independently verify the authenticity of the video.According to the CMO, the appointees included 685 Au ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar on Monday triggered a controversy after he pulled the hijab of a woman doctor during an appointment letter distribution programme.A video shared by the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) on X shows Nitish on stage alongside deputy chief minister Samrat Choudhary and health minister Mangal Pandey.The incident took place at a programme held at the chief minister's residence, where appointment letters were being distributed to newly recruited AYUSH doctors.When ...Read More >
RAIPUR: For BJP workers in Chhattisgarh, the news that Nitin Nabin has been made the party's national working president didn't come as a surprise. For many of them, the "promotion" only puts a formal title on what they've seen for the past few years: a low-profile but relentless organiser who dragged a "demoralised unit back to power."A five-time MLA from Bankipur and minister in the Bihar govt, Nabin first came to Chhattisgarh in 2019 as co-incharge under Om Mathur. On paper, he was just anothe ...Read More >
Mumbai: Flipkart has secured go ahead from the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) to shift its domicile to India from Singapore, taking the Walmart-controlled firm a step closer to IPO, said people aware of the matter. Flipkart did not respond to queries.In April this year, the company had started the process of shifting its base to India, joining a clutch of new age companies that flipped back to the country to align better with local norms and list in domestic bourses amid a booming primary ...Read More >
New Delhi: Noting that the social evil of dowry still prevails showing the ineffectiveness of the anti-dowry laws and at the same time the law is being misused by women for ulterior motives, Supreme Court Monday said this contradiction needed to be resolved as it is creating judicial tension.A bench of Justices Sanjay Karol & N K Singh highlighted this issue while convicting a man and his 94-year old mother in dowry death case when a 20-year old girl burnt to death in 2001 for not fulfilling the ...Read More >
. New Delhi: The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) on Monday directed its regional offices across the country to collect samples of both branded and unbranded eggs and send them to 10 laboratories for testing to check for the presence of nitrofurans residues.The move follows a controversy over the quality of eggs sold by popular brand Eggoz, with reports raising concerns about possible traces of nitrofurans -- a group of antibiotics banned for use in food-producing animals. He ...Read More >
New Delhi: More than a decade after declaring sleep as part of right to life, Supreme Court on Monday agreed to adjudicate whether the new schedule extending 'darshan' time for devotees at Banke Bihari temple at Vrindavan disturbed the traditional sleep and rest periods of the main deity.Appearing for the Banke Bihariji Temple Management Committee, senior advocate Shyam Divan complained to a bench of Chief Justice Surya Kant and Justices Joymalya Bagchi and Vipul M Pancholi that the SC-appointed ...Read More >
. New Delhi: The amended atomic energy bill was tabled in LS Monday, paving way for a huge policy shift in India's atomic sector that is expected to accelerate civil nuclear energy production by opening doors for private players. The sector has till now been the preserve of govt enterprises.Sustainable Harnessing and Advancement of Nuclear Energy for Transforming India (SHANTI) Bill, 2025, introduced by MoS for department of atomic energy Jitendra Singh in the House, seeks to repeal Atomic Energ ...Read More >
Madurai: The stone pillar situated atop Thiruparankundram hill near Madurai was built by Jain saints and does not belong to Hindus, Tamil Nadu govt told Madras high court on Monday, quoting books by archaeologists.There are similar pillars on other hills in Madurai district, including one at Samanar hills -- an ancient Jain heritage site in Keelakuyilkudi -- and at Shravanabelagola, a Jain pilgrimage site in Karnataka, the senior counsel for the joint commissioner of Hindu Religious and Charitab ...Read More >
Mumbai is finally having an election for the BMC (Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation) on January 15. The BMC runs the city and has a lot of money to fix roads, clean drains, manage schools and hospitals. Elections were supposed to happen three years ago, but they were delayed. These elections matter because Mumbai is in bad shape. Roads have potholes, floods happen every monsoon, and even the air is getting very dirty. People want leaders who will actually think about the city. But right now, ...Read More >
. NEW DELHI: Delhiites woke up to winter's first dense fog on Monday, with visibility dropping to zero in the city. There was havoc at Delhi airport as departures remained suspended for nearly five hours from 4am to 9am when visibility was below 100m.As many as 228 flights - 131 departures, 97 arrivals - were cancelled, over 800 delayed and five diverted to other airports, officials said. The ripple effect of delays continued long after the fog cleared around noon. At least 100 trains were runni ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: India's exports grew at their fastest pace in over three years, rising 19.4% to $38.1 billion in Nov on the back of a jump in shipments to the US and China. With imports falling 2% to $62.7 billion, the trade deficit narrowed to $24.6 billion, the lowest level since June.India's exports to the US are estimated to have increased 22.6% to $7 billion in Nov despite the impact of 50% additional tariffs, while the value of consignments going to China rose 90% to $2.2 billion. In fact, in N ...Read More >
Kanpur: A massive fire gutted the Irrigation Department's Lower Ganga Canal Block, Etawah Division office on Sunday, reducing the entire building and nearly five decades of departmental records to ashes before fire brigade teams could bring the blaze under control.While officials cited a possible short circuit as the cause, a detailed investigation is underway to ascertain the exact reason.The office was closed on Sunday and the fire came to light early Monday morning when residents noticed smok ...Read More >
Panaji: The Bombay high court on Monday directed the registration of a suo motu PIL in the wake of the fire that killed 25 at an Arpora nightclub. This was to look into the larger issue of commercial operations being allowed in illegal structures in the state.The division bench, comprising Justices Sarang V Kotwal and Ashish S Chavan, told state govt to file a response in the suo motu PIL, pointing out what corrective measures can be taken and whether any particular officer or authority can be m ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: Set to consign the Congress-stamped MGNREGA to history, Modi govt will unveil a new law on guaranteed unskilled rural jobs, with a structure that will shift the Centre's financial burden to states, provide fixed budgets for states instead of the present practice of it being demand-driven, and annually pause the scheme for two months during the agricultural season - in tweaks that will rewrite the concept of job guarantee from what has been known for the last two decades.Titled 'Viksit ...Read More >
Panaji: State govt on Monday sealed The Cape Goa, an upmarket hotel that was operating using a temporary shack licence on the Cabo de Rama hill face in South Goa.The hotel, which included a sea-facing restaurant with seating capacity for close to 100 persons, was originally meant to be an 18x8 structure for only 24 individuals, said senior officials.While it is the state's fourth tourism establishment that is in the dock, it is the first hotel to be sealed and the first in South Goa to face the ...Read More >
Chennai: Chief minister M K Stalin on Monday presented cheques and felicitated state athletes who won at the 7th Carrom World Cup held in the Maldives. At an event in Chennai, he congratulated medal winners Keerthana, Kasima, and Mithra, and announced incentives totalling 1.90 crore.He also met and congratulated the winners of the SDAT Squash World Cup 2025 held in Chennai, including Indian players Joshna Chinappa, Abhay Singh, Anahat Singh, and Velavan Senthilkumar. Tamil Nadu Sports Developmen ...Read More >
Hyderabad: Telangana high court will continue hearing on Tuesday a petition filed by C Vinay Kumar, challenging Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation's (GHMC) preliminary notification for ward delimitation. Justice B Vijaysen Reddy, who heard the matter on Monday, while prima facie observing that the contentions raised by the petitioner will be rejected, posted it to Tuesday for further hearing,The petitioner, a resident of Chikkadpally, objected to the proposed merger of certain houses from t ...Read More >
Bengaluru: A 27-year-old eatery assistant was arrested on charges of molesting a motorist when she slowed down her vehicle near a pothole in Kamakshipalya, Magadi Road. The accused is Vinod Kumar, a first-time offender residing at Madeshwaranagar, Herohalli. He was sent to judicial custody in Bengaluru Central Prison.According to Kamakshipalya police, the woman was riding her gearless scooter near Summanahalli Junction last week and her husband was following in his car. "When the woman slowed do ...Read More >
Ahmedabad: A lawyer practising in the Gujarat high court has issued a legal notice to filmmaker Aditya Dhar and Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt, accusing them of defaming the Baloch community in the recently released Hindi film 'Dhurandhar'. He alleged that the filmmakers used vulgar, offensive and derogatory language to describe the community.Advocate Nabil Baloch took exception to a dialogue spoken by Dutt's character, SP Chaudhary Aslam, a Pakistani police officer, which states: "You can trust cr ...Read More >
Ranchi: A total of 4 flights from various destinations to Ranchi were cancelled on Monday, Airports Authority of India (AAI) officials at the Birsa Munda Airport said.An IndiGo flight from Hyderabad to Ranchi and back, and another flight of the same airline from Patna to Ranchi and back, were cancelled. AI Express flights from New Delhi to Ranchi and back, and Mumbai to Ranchi and back, were also cancelled for the day, an AAI official said.The flights were cancelled due to fog and other operatio ...Read More >
Bhubaneswar: Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) is looking for suitable land to develop shelters to house stray dogs following a Supreme Court direction. The shelters will be unlike a dog kennel where sterilised dogs are quarantined before they are released."On a trial basis, we brought 20 dogs to a shelter inside the existing kennel at Mancheswar. We wrote to all the institutions to give us data regarding the presence of the number of dogs close to their premises. We also asked if the inst ...Read More >
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