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New Delhi: Indian women’s hockey team goalkeeping stalwart Savita will continue to lead the team while Deep Grace Ekka will be her deputy during the FIH Pro League games against Spain in Bhubaneswar, Odisha on February 26 and 27. Hockey India on Monday named a 22-member squad for the weekend matches, with promising young forward […]

Hyderabad: The Ministry of Ayush last week reiterated that Giloy/ Guduchi (Tinospora cordifolia) is safe and as per available data and does not produce any toxic effect. The clarification came after certain sections of the media have falsely linked Giloy/Guduchi to liver damage. Read more about the shrub that is native to India and is […]

New Delhi: Losses owing to digital advertising fraud are set to reach a whopping $68 billion globally this year, rising from $59 billion in 2021, a new report showed on Monday. Top five countries most impacted by advertising fraud — the US, Japan, China, South Korea and the UK — together account for 60 per […]

New Delhi: India’s largest mobile operator Reliance Jio Infocomm will land the multi-terabit India-Asia-Xpress (IAX) undersea cable system in Hulhumale, Maldives, according to a statement on Monday. The high capacity and high-speed IAX system will connect Hulhumale directly with world’s major internet hubs in India and Singapore. Jio’s IAX project will land in the Maldives […]

Kolkata: Finding the perfect combination can be tricky and there is no set formula, but India head coach Rahul Dravid says he and skipper Rohit Sharma are pretty clear about the team for the T20 World Cup in Australia in less than eight months’ time. The former captain, who took over from Ravi Shastri after […]

New Delhi: India reported 16,051 new COVID-19 cases and 206 fatalities in the last 24 hours, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare informed on Monday. Of the fresh fatalities, Kerala reported 92 deaths as per the state health department’s data. With this, the total cases of COVID-19 infections in the country moved up to […]

Kolkata: India produced a clinical all-round performance to beat West Indies by 17 runs in the third and final T20I, to complete a 3-0 clean sweep at the Eden Gardens, here on Sunday. Put into bat, India lost wickets at regular wickets and were in trouble at 93-4 but a classy fifty from Suryakumar Yadav […]

Hyderabad: A high-level Korean delegation led by Korean Ambassador to India, Chang Jae-bok has recently visited the English and Foreign Languages University (EFLU). During the interaction with EFLU vice chancellor and UGC member, professor E Suresh Kumar, the ambassador, who visited the University for the first time, appreciated the efforts made to promote not only […]

 New Delhi: India reported 19,968 new cases of COVID-19 during the last 24 hours, said the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Sunday. A total of 11,87,766 samples were tested during the last 24 hours. The positivity rate for the day stands at 1.68 per cent while the weekly positivity rate stands at 2.27 […]

Kolkata: The series in their bag, India will have the liberty to experiment in the third and final T20I against the West Indies here on Sunday. With Virat Kohli and Rishabh Pant given a 10-day break, the home team is set to finally include the gifted Shreyas Iyer and Ruturaj Gaikwad in the playing XI. […]

New Delhi: The NIA has learnt that underworld don Dawood Ibrahim has been spreading terror activities across India through his recently formed Special Unit. On February 7, the probe agency lodged a case against Dawood Ibrahim and others under various sections of Unlawful Activities Prevention Act after receiving the vital inputs in this respect. The NIA […]

Beijing: India on Saturday won the right to host the 2023 International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) session in Mumbai in an unopposed race, during the 139th IOC Session in Beijing, China. The Indian delegation comprising the country’s first individual Olympic gold medallist (Beijing 2008, shooting) Abhinav Bindra, IOC Member Nita Ambani, Indian Olympic Association (IOA) President […]

As many as 60,298 patients recovered from the disease during this period taking the total number of recoveries since the onset of the pandemic to 4,20,37,536.

Kolkata: Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Harshal Patel produced superb bowling in slog overs as India survived some anxious moments before walking out with an eight-run win over West Indies in the second T20I that handed them an unassailable 2-0 lead in the three-match series here on Friday. Chasing a stiff 187, wicketkeeper-batter Nicholas Pooran (62 off […]

Three partients who had cancer and HIV, were completely cured of HIV through experimental stem cell transplantation technique

Kolkata: Clinical in most aspects of the game so far, India will now hope that star batter Virat Kohli also regains his form when they take on a struggling West Indies in the potentially series-deciding second T20 International here on Friday. The touring West Indies side has been far from being at its best and […]

Expressing gratitude to the Centre for prioritising the country's first water taxi here, Thackeray said that it will go a long way in improving connectivity with Mumbai along with the network of roads, flyovers, subways, the upcoming Mumbai Trans Harbour Link and other mega-infrastructure projects.

Hyderabad: Housing prices in Hyderabad jumped seven per cent during the last quarter of the calendar year 2021, according to PropTiger.com research. This growth in annual prices of new apartments could primarily be attributed to the spike in rates of construction materials after the coronavirus pandemic outbreak in early 2020 due to supply side constraints. […]

Hyderabad: Recently, India signed an agreement with the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) for the distribution of 50,000 MT of wheat that it has committed to sending to Afghanistan as part of a humanitarian assistance. Earlier, the Delhi Regional Security Dialogue on Afghanistan was held. The meeting called for “urgent humanitarian assistance” to the […]

The Centre’s response to the plight of stranded Indians in Ukraine, caught in the escalating tensions with Russia, has been tardy and inadequate. With war clouds looming large following a massive Russian military build-up on the borders, thousands of Indians, particularly students enrolled in Ukrainian higher education institutes, are a worried lot. The advisory issued […]