NEW DELHI — After India were thrashed by arch-rival Pakistan in the T20 Cricket World Cup, fast bowler Mohammed Shami was vilified by furious Hindu fans who accused the team’s only Muslim player of deliberately throwing the game. Virat Kohli, the Indian captain, fired back, citing Shami’s “passion for the country” and his other high-class […]
KASARAGOD — A 46-year old village school teacher, who developed uneasiness while taking online class via phone, collapsed and died after expressing a desire to see her students at Kallar in this north Kerala district, family members said. Madhavi C, a teacher at the Government Welfare Lower Primary School at Adottukaya here, died on Thursday […]
JAIPUR — A private school teacher in Rajasthan’s Udaipur was sacked and a case registered against her after she posted a celebratory WhatsApp status following Pakistan’s victory over India in their cricket world cup match Sunday. Nafeesa Attari, a teacher at Neerja Modi School Udaipur, had put out a picture of Pakistani players with the […]
BHUJ — A Border Security Force (BSF) personnel deployed in Gujarat’s Bhuj battalion was arrested by the Anti-Militant Squad (ATS) for allegedly working as a spy for Pakistan and passing on secret and sensitive information to the neighbouring country over WhatsApp, the ATS said on Monday. The arrested BSF man, identified as Mohammad Sajjad, is […]
NEW DELHI — Following several open criticism aimed at Congress by its group of 23 leaders (G-23), the party has now sought an undertaking from leaders and workers to never criticise the party’s policies and programmes in public forums who aspire to take up primary membership. “I subscribe to and work for promoting the principles […]
SRINAGAR — After Pakistan’s win against India in ICC Men’s T20 World Cup, Kashmiri students studying in various colleges of Punjab were physically assaulted by ‘people from Uttar Pradesh and Bihar’. At Bhai Guru Das Institute of Engineering and Technology in Sangrur, Punjab, several students were attacked and assaulted in their hostel rooms after India […]
NAGPUR — Yoga guru Ramdev on Saturday said the India-Pakistan T20 World Cup match scheduled for Sunday is against the national interest and “Rashtradharma” as the “game of cricket and the game of terror cannot be played at the same time”. Speaking to reporters at the Nagpur airport, Ramdev said the addiction to drugs in […]
NEW DELHI — The Supreme Court has said that a candidate, selected in Civil Services examinations, cannot claim allocation of cadre of his choice as a matter of right. A selected candidate has a right to be considered for appointment to the IAS but he or she has no such right to be allocated to […]
MUMBAI — Maharashtra Minister Chhagan Bhujbal on Saturday mocked the BJP over the cruise ship drugs bust case, in which film superstar Shah Rukh Khan’s son Aryan is one of the arrested accused, and said “drugs would become sugar powder” if the actor joined the saffron party. A massive consignment of drugs was seized in […]
MUMBAI — The coronavirus pandemic, which has affected the lives of people at different levels, has also caused a drop in the life expectancy of the country by almost two years, a statistical analysis by scientists of the city-based International Institute for Population Studies (IIPS) has revealed. The analytical report, which points out the drop […]