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New Delhi: Nearly 69 per cent of jobs in India are under threat from automation, as the country, with its relatively young workforce, is set to add 160 million new workers over the next 20 years, a new report showed on Monday. The main priority for the country, set to reach a working population of 1.1 […]

Florida: Ravi Bishnoi’s four and Axar Patel’s three-wicket haul guided India to victory against West Indies by 88 runs and clinch the series by 4-1 at the Central Broward Regional Park Stadium Turf Ground in Lauderhill on Sunday. Chasing the target of 189, West Indies got off to the worst start as they lost their […]

Birmingham: Indian women’s doubles duo of Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand clinched the bronze medal in the women’s doubles at the ongoing Commonwealth Games 2022 in Birmingham on Sunday. The Indian duo of Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand registered a 2-0 win over Australia’s Wendy Hsuan-Yu Chen and Gronya Somerville 21-15, 21-18. The ace shuttlers […]

Birmingham: World champions Australia beat India by nine runs in a thriller to win the gold medal in the women’s cricket event at the Commonwealth Games on Sunday. Batting first, Australia scored 161 for 8 in 20 overs with Beth Mooney scoring 61 off 41 balls while Renuka Singh taking 2 for 25. In reply, […]

Birmingham: India’s Dipika Pallikal Karthik and Saurav Ghosal won the mixed doubles bronze medal in squash at the 2022 Commonwealth Games, here on Sunday. Dipika and Saurav defeated Australian duo Donna Lobban and Cameron Pilley 2-0 (11-8, 11-4) in the bronze medal match at the University of Birmingham Hockey & Squash Centre. Up against the […]

Lauderhill: Shreyas Iyer roared back to form with a stroke-filled 64 while the spinners picked up all the 10 wickets as India recorded yet another one-sided 88-run victory over West Indies to wrap up the five-match T20 International series by a comprehensive 4-1 margin here. It was Iyer’s half-century and useful contributions from Deepak Hooda […]

India’s decision to enhance the existing targets on climate change is a welcome development but the country has a long way to go as it has an unenviable task of balancing the imperatives of development and the urgency of environmental protection. New Delhi’s move to update the Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), under the Paris Agreement, […]

Sriharikota: The maiden launch of India’s brand new rocket is keeping the country in suspense as to its fate on Sunday morning. Hoping to celebrate in advance the country’s 75th anniversary of Independence in style the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) launched its freshly minted rocket Small Satellite Launch Vehicle – Developmental Flight (SSLV-D1). On its […]

New Delhi: India reported 18,738 new Covid cases in the last 24 hours, a marginal decline from the previous day’s count of 19,406, said the Union Health Ministry on Sunday. In the same period, the country reported 40 more Covid deaths, taking the nationwide death toll to 5,26,689. Meanwhile, the active caseload has marginally risen to […]

Sriharikota: India’s brand new rocket Small Satellite Launch Vehicle (SSLV-D1) on Sunday morning lifted off with an earth observation satellite-02 (EOS-02) formerly known as Microsatellite-2 weighing about 145 kg. Piggybacking on that was the eight kg AZAADISAT built by 750 students of government schools facilitated by SpaceKidz India. At about 9.18 a.m. the 34 metre tall […]

Birmingham: India won its second medal in lawn bowls competition at the Commonwealth Games after the men’s fours team settled for a silver after losing to Norther Ireland in the final here on Saturday. The final score read 18-5 in favour of Northern Ireland. The Indian team comprised Sunil Bahadur (lead), Navneet Singh (second), Chandan […]

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Mumbai: India’s foreign exchange (forex) reserves rose by $2.315 billion to $573.875 billion for the week ended July 29 on the back of robust capital inflows in the equities markets and strengthening of rupee from the record low, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) data showed. The country’s forex reserves have risen for the first […]

New Delhi: India is all set to commemorate its 75th Independence Day on August 15 this year with the theme ‘Nation First, Always First’. The Indian government is celebrating the Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav program in view of 75 years of Independence and is dedicated to the people of India. India was under British rule […]

New Delhi: The Indian SARS-CoV-2 Genomics Consortium (INSACOG), in a weekly meeting, reviewed the data of genomic surveillance of variants and found that at present, Omicron and its sub-lineages are the predominant mutataions that are circulating in India. “Presently, only Omicron and its sub-lineages are the predominant circulating variants in India,” sources told ANI today. […]

Chennai: The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is hoping to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the country’s Independence with the launch of its new rocket Small Satellite Launch Vehicle – Developmental Flight 1 (SSLV-D1) on Sunday. The countdown down for the SSLV-D1 launch will begin about six-and-half-hours before the lift off which is scheduled at 9.18 […]

Bhubaneswar: Striker Gurkirat Singh scored four goals including a hat-trick, while Himanshu Jangra scored the another as India U20 routed Bangladesh U20 5-2 in the final to emerge champions in the SAFF U20 Championship after extra time at the Kalinga Stadium, here on Friday. Both teams were locked 1-1 at the interval, and 2-2 after completion […]

Athletics and Para athletics Women’s F55-57 Shot Put Final: Poonam Sharma, Sharmilam, Santosh- 2:50pm Women’s 10,000m Race Walk Final: Priyanka, Bhawana Jat- 3pm Men’s 3000m Steeplechase Final: Avinash Sable- 4:20pm Women’s 4x100m Relay Round 1- Heat 1: Hima Das, Dutee Chand, Shrbani Nanda, NS Simi- 4:45pm Women’s Hammer Throw Final: Manju Bala- 11:30pm Men’s 5000m […]

New Delhi: Tesla CEO Elon Musk has claimed that Twitter does not follow the law of the land in India and this has jeopardised one of its largest markets. In a countersuit against the micro-blogging platform filed in a Delaware court in the US late on Friday, Musk said he was “hoodwinked” into signing the $44 […]

New Delhi: With 19,406 new coronavirus infections being reported in a day, India’s tally of COVID-19 cases rose to 4,41,26,994, while active cases declined to 1,34,793, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Saturday. The death toll has climbed to 5,26,649 with 49 new fatalities, the data updated at 8 am stated. The […]