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Patna: Bihar minister Nitin Nabin, who has been appointed as the national working president of the BJP, formally took charge of his new assignment at the party's headquarters in Delhi on Monday.The event was marked by the presence of prominent figures such as BJP president and Union health minister J P Nadda; Union home minister Amit Shah; Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan, and Delhi CM Rekha Gupta, among others.Nitin Nabin expressed his gratitude for the elevation, describing it as a ...Read More >
Bhubaneswar: At least six Delhi-Bhubaneswar flights were delayed at the Biju Patnaik International Airport (BPIA) here on Monday morning because of heavy fog at IGI Airport in the national capital. One IndiGo flight was also cancelled due to the ongoing disruptions.BPIA officials said two flights each of IndiGo, Air India and Air India Express were delayed by at least two hours, leading to delayed departures as well."Since the six morning flights couldn't take off on time from Delhi, the arrival ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: Darjeeling's Makaibari Tea Estate will have an Oberoi hotel by 2030. EIH Ltd, parent company of Oberoi, Monday announced signing of a management agreement for a luxury resort at one of the world's oldest and most storied tea estates that was established in 1859. The 1,236 acres (500-hectare) estate includes one of the world's oldest functioning tea factories - constructed entirely of wood, bamboo and cast iron.This is part of EIH's robust expansion plan, with a development pipeline of ...Read More >
MUMBAI: State Bank of India plans to double its mobile banking customer base to 20 crore over the next two years from the current 9.4 crore with the launch of Yono 2.0, chairman C S Setty said on Tuesday. To help customers transition to the new digital platform, the bank will expand its in-branch digital support network to 10,000 floor managers across the country by March."This is not simply a mobile application," Setty said at the press conference. "We have rewritten the entire internet banking ...Read More >
Bengaluru: As many as 375 private schools in Karnataka migrated from state syllabus to Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) between 2022 and 2024.According to data provided by the state govt in the legislative assembly, 62 schools converted to CBSE in 2022. The number increased drastically to 169 in 2023 and dropped marginally to 144 in 2024."We see an increasing preference for central boards among private schools. Infrastructure norms for central boards are much more realistic, while tho ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: Allrounder Axar Patel has been ruled out of the remaining two T20Is against South Africa due to illness.Axar is currently with the Indian team in Lucknow, where he will undergo further medical assessment, the BCCI informed on Monday."The Men's Selection Committee has named Shahbaz Ahmed as his replacement for the T20Is in Lucknow and Ahmedabad," a release by the BCCI said. Axar missed the third T20I of the series in Dharamshala on Sunday due to illness. Under chilly climes and dewy co ...Read More >
Mumbai: The city's overall AQI improved marginally to 122 on Monday from 131 a day earlier, remaining in the moderate range. While air quality was largely stable across Mumbai, Shivaji Nagar in Govandi continued to record severely polluted air for the second consecutive day, with an AQI of 229, slightly higher than 226 a day earlier, making it the worst-affected area in the city and the only location in the poor category.At the other end of the spectrum, Sion recorded the cleanest air, with an A ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: After a delay of nearly three years, the State Election Commission has finally announced dates for Maharashtra's long-pending civic body elections, which have been overdue since 2022. Polling will be held on January 15 for 29 municipal corporations, 32 zilla parishads and 336 panchayat samitis, with results scheduled for January 16.The elections to key urban bodies such as the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), Pune and Thane are being seen as more than routine local contests, ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: The 2026 Indian Premier League mini auction is set to kick off with 10 franchises vying for 77 player slots, operating under a combined spending cap of Rs 237.55 crore. The upcoming season is scheduled to begin in late March 2026.Go Beyond The Boundary with our YouTube channel. SUBSCRIBE NOW!Kolkata Knight Riders enter the auction with the largest-ever purse in a mini auction, Rs 64.3 crore, positioning them as a dominant force in shaping bidding trends. Chennai Super Kings also hold ...Read More >
KOLKATA: Almost everything that could have gone wrong at Salt Lake Stadium on Saturday did, a TOI post-mortem conducted 24 hours after the massive Messi mess has revealed. Eyewitnesses who had a ringside view of the chaos were near-unanimous about where it all began. Someone from the crowd of hangers-on accompanying politicians and organisers, positioned close to Argentine football icon Lionel Messi, kept pestering him for an autograph on a T-shirt when the pen scratched his body. The incident i ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: Parliamentary affairs minister Kiren Rijiju has demanded apology from leader of oppositions in both the houses -- Mallikarjun Kharge and Rahul Gandhi -- a day after videos of Congress workers sloganeering "eliminate" Prime Minister Narendra Modi surfaced on social media."Both the LoPs in Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha should apologise," Rijiju said. He further claimed that the BJP or NDA had "never disrespected anyone's parents or threatened anyone's life." "BJP-NDA has never disrespected ...Read More >
CHENNAI: After bagging bronze in the previous edition two years ago, India climbed two steps up on Sunday. Toppling top seeds Hong Kong 3-0, India claimed their maiden Squash World Cup in front of a lively gathering at the Express Avenue Mall here. Egypt and Japan shared the bronze medal.Go Beyond The Boundary with our YouTube channel. SUBSCRIBE NOW!In the tournament's first all-Asian final, the city's own squash icon Joshna Chinappa set the ball rolling for the hosts, handing India a good start ...Read More >
NAGPUR: Indian legends Viswanathan Anand and Koneru Humpy suffered defeats as the country's top three Grandmasters Gukesh D, Arjun Erigaisi and Praggnanandhaa R, drew their respective games on a day dominated by hosts UpGrad Mumba Masters in the Global Chess League (GCL), in Mumbai on Sunday.Go Beyond The Boundary with our YouTube channel. SUBSCRIBE NOW!While the two outfits led by Indian icon players, including Anand's Ganges Grandmasters and world champion Gukesh's PBG Alaskan Knights, lost th ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: Former India cricketer and batting coach Sanjay Bangar feels England's hard-hitting batter Jonny Bairstow could become a prized pick for franchises looking for a top-order wicketkeeper-batter ahead of the IPL 2026 mini auction.Go Beyond The Boundary with our YouTube channel. SUBSCRIBE NOW!Speaking on JioStar's 'IPL Auction Most Wanted' show, Bangar underlined Bairstow's appeal as a multi-dimensional option, highlighting his ability to keep wickets and provide explosive starts at the t ...Read More >
HYDERABAD: After the fiasco of Kolkata earlier in the day, this city held its collective nerve to keep its date with Lionel Messi on Saturday.The city wore a festive look in anticipation of the Argentine super star's arrival, but the state government machinery here was forced into overdrive after the event in Kolkata unravelled and put the whole G.O.A.T India Tour 2025 in peril. Fans turned up in large numbers from the neighbouring states of Kerala and Karnataka and the govt aided the build-up b ...Read More >
MUMBAI: The BCCI has moved the knockouts of the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy, a domestic T20 tournament, from Indore to Pune due to logistical reasons. The knockouts of the event, scheduled to be held from Dec 12 to 18, will now be staged at the Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium in Gahunje and the Dr DY Patil Academy ground in Ambi in Pune."We informed BCCI about a fortnight ago that we will not be able to stage the SMAT knockouts as there is a lack of hotel room availability here due to some g ...Read More >
MUMBAI: Home loan rates are set to drop to levels last seen before the global financial crisis in 2008, with the RBI's monetary policy committee reducing the repo rate by 25 basis points to 5.25%.Several banks -- Union Bank, Bank of India, Bank of Maharashtra and Indian Overseas Bank -- currently offer home loans at 7.35%. Borrowers at this rate will see their interest rate decline to 7.1%, which is also the deposit rate offered by some private banks. On a Rs 1 crore home loan for 15 years, a 0. ...Read More >
MUMBAI: Reserve Bank of India's Deputy Governor, Poonam Gupta, has responded to recent International Monetary Fund (IMF) comments questioning the quality of India's growth data and classifying the Indian rupee's exchange rate regime as a "crawling peg" within a managed float system.On the concern regarding data quality, Gupta said that the IMF's critique is more procedural than substantive. "The point that they're making on what is perceived to be the quality of our statistics is a very limited ...Read More >
LUCKNOW: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Thursday arrested four more prime accused in the November 10 Red Fort blast case -- including a Lucknow-based woman doctor and a Saharanpur-origin medical practitioner -- taking the total number of arrests to six. Those arrested have been identified as Dr Muzammil Shakeel Ganai of Pulwama, Dr Adeel Ahmed Rather, a doctor in Saharanpur but native of Anantnag, Dr Shaheen Saeed of Lucknow, and Mufti Irfan Ahmad Wagay of Shopian, the NIA said. All ...Read More >
Rajasthan Vahan Chalak Admit Card 2025: The Rajasthan Staff Selection Board (RSSB) has officially released the admit cards for the Rajasthan Vahan Chalak (Vehicle Driver) Recruitment Exam 2025. Candidates who have applied for the RSSB Vehicle Driver posts can now download their hall tickets directly from the official website, rssb.rajasthan.gov.in.The Rajasthan Driver Exam 2025 will be conducted in a single shift on November 23rd. Candidates are advised to check all details on the admit card car ...Read More >
. NEW DELHI: External affairs minister S Jaishankar inaugurated two new Consulates General of India in Russia on Wednesday, in Yekaterinburg and Kazan. Jaishankar hailed the moment as an important day for bilateral ties.Speaking at the event, he said, "I am confident that with the opening of the two new consulates, there will be a further strengthening of India-Russia ties, and this will surely mark a new phase in our relationship." The external affairs minister also said that the two new missio ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Monday arrested another key associate of the terrorist involved in the car blast near Red Fort in New Delhi on November 10. Jasir Bilal Wani alias Danish, also a Kashmir resident, was arrested from Srinagar in Jammu & Kashmir by an NIA team that was in the Valley in the case, news agency ANI reported citing NIA. The anti-terror agency's probe revealed that Jasir had allegedly provided "technical support for carrying out terror attacks by modi ...Read More >
JODHPUR: At least five people were killed and 14 others sustained injuries after a trailer truck and a tempo carrying devotees collided near Khari Beri village on NH-125 in Jodhpur on Saturday, officials said.The injured were taken to MDM Hospital in Jodhpur for medical care. According to Dr Vikas Kumar, Superintendent of the hospital, three individuals were brought in dead, while 14 others are currently being treated. He said that among the injured, one patient has a severe abdominal wound, ano ...Read More >
Bhubaneswar: First phase of the All India Tiger Estimation (AITE)-2026 started across 103 beats of Similipal Tiger Reserve on Saturday. As many as 103 survey groups are working to gather data regarding carnivore and ungulate density. Birds will also be counted in this phase that ends on Nov 22."As per the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) protocol, the estimation will be carried out in two phases at the tiger reserve level. In phase I, which will run for three days, carnivores and meg ...Read More >
Patna: Former Union minister R K Singh on Saturday resigned from the BJP's primary membership shortly after the party suspended him and two other leaders for alleged anti-party activities. The BJP also issued show-cause notices to all three, directing them to explain within a week why they should not be expelled.Singh, a bureaucrat-turned-politician and former Ara MP, had been making remarks critical of the party after losing the Lok Sabha election last year. He was effectively sidelined during ...Read More >
Patna: The just-concluded Bihar assembly poll results have set off an interesting debate in political circles. Although the RJD, headed by Lalu Prasad, put up a disastrous performance in the elections, it had the highest vote percentage of 23. Again, although the AIMIM of the Hyderabad parliamentarian got only 1.85% of the votes, it managed to win five seats, repeating its 2020 poll percentage.Although the RJD maintained its 2020 assembly poll record of getting 23.11% of the votes, it managed to ...Read More >
Patna: The NDA's landslide victory in the Bihar assembly polls will enable it to secure all Rajya Sabha seats from the state in the coming two biennial elections, causing a sharp decrease in the number of RJD members in the Upper House unless it wins more seats in the next assembly elections.The RJD currently holds five of Bihar's 16 Rajya Sabha seats with the Congress holding one.The next round of Rajya Sabha elections, slated for early next year, will see the tenures of RJD MPs Prem Chand Gupt ...Read More >
Sasaram: Although the Grand Alliance (GA) managed to retain only one of the 11 assembly seats in Rohtas district -- Karakat -- the election results indicate that the alliance continues to enjoy strong support among govt employees who cast their votes through postal ballots. In almost every segment, GA candidates received more postal-ballot votes than their NDA counterparts. Notably, govt employees also pressed NOTA in every assembly segment of the twin districts.In Sasaram, out of the total 2,21 ...Read More >
Patna: A day after the RJD suffered a crushing electoral setback, the crisis within the party escalated into the personal domain with Rohini Acharya stepping out of her father Lalu Prasad's residence on Saturday to declare that she had "no family left". Rohini, who once donated a kidney to save Lalu's life said she had been "expelled" by those closest to the RJD leadership, turning an already fraught internal rift into an unprecedented public rupture."I don't have any family, you should go and a ...Read More >
Patna: Prime Minister (PM) Narendra Modi on Saturday said the people of Bihar have rejected caste politics in the assembly elections.Addressing the people of Bihar in Surat, PM Modi said the opposition leaders in Bihar would take months to recover from the shock they suffered after the assembly election results were declared on Friday.Modi, who celebrated the NDA victory at the Delhi BJP office on Friday by saying "Bihar ke logo ne garda uda diya", a colloquial expression meaning doing something ...Read More >
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