The Dravida Munnetra Kazhgam (DMK) is all set to finalise seat-sharing talks with its allies before the party's massive public meet to be held in Trichy on March 7. On that day, the DMK chief MK Stalin will also release the grand old regional party’s vision document for the next 10 years
It is only 22 yards long and 10 feet wide, but this little strip engulfed by the vast expanse of the outfield is the single most significant piece of the puzzle that’s the game of cricket
Even amid growing concerns over the impact of global warming and climate change on coastal areas, Puducherry and Lakshadweep have been chosen as the first locations for sustainable development of ocean resources through an India-Norway collaboration
The Income Tax (IT) Department raided properties of filmmaker Anurag Kashyap and actor Taapsee Pannu on Wednesday (March 3) following charge of tax evasion.
The advocate community played a significant role in the movement for a separate Telangana for over six years till the dream of a new state was realised in June 2014. Today they are protesting on the roads, agitating against the Telangana Rashtriya Samithi-led government and demanding a law for their own protection
Days after a US firm alerted India about the possible role of Chinese hackers in causing a power outage in Mumbai in 2020, another US cyber security firm ‘Recorded Future’ has flagged concerns about the ‘active’ status of at least one connection opened by Chinese state-sponsored hackers into the network system of an Indian sea port.
Answering an allegation that has been thrown at the Congress by detractors over the past decades, its leader Rahul Gandhi has said that the Emergency imposed by his grandmother and former Indian prime minister Indira Gandhi was a “mistake”, a fact th...
The BJP reacted to Rahul Gandhi’s statement that “emergency was a mistake” and his veiled attack on Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), by saying that the Congress leader would "take a long time to understand the RSS"
Safely tucked under NASA's Perseverance is another engineering marvel. Called Ingenuity, the mini-helicopter will deploy and make short flights on the red planet soon. It will initially lie quietly for some time to test resilience to temperatures and atmosphere of Mars.
After the resilience test, it will take flight on the deserted planet. Soon it will send data back to earth and help humans understand the potential possibilities of life on Mars. But that's not all that this self-powered chopper will do. Click here for more.
V K Sasikala, whose release from jail had given rise to speculations that she would return to the AIADMK ahead of the Tamil Nadu assembly elections, has put an end to such talks by announcing that she is quitting politics and public life. She asked her supporters to work unitedly to ensure the “golden rule” of former chief minister and AIADMK general secretary late J Jayalalithaa returns to the state.
The ‘Certainly LDF’ follows another slogan ‘Certainly development, certainly health, and certainly welfare.’ The first slogan was formally released by Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan along with the Finance Minister Dr Thomas Issac and CPI-M state secretary A Vijayaraghavan.
The minister resigned pending an investigation into the alleged incident where he was accused of sexually exploiting a woman who sought his help for a documentary on dams
Former Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu squatted on the floor at Tirupati airport (Renigunta) on Monday (March 1), after the local police detained him and refused him permission to go to Chittoor to lead a protest.
The advocate community played a significant role in the movement for a separate Telangana for over six years till the dream of a new state was realised in June 2014. Today they are protesting on the roads, agitating against the Telangana Rashtriya Samithi-led government and demanding a law for their own protection
Even though the Indian economy is limping back to normalcy with pandemic-hit businesses picking up pace, there has been a contraction in credit to large industries and infrastructure due to reluctance shown by banks to lend, the Reserve Bank of ...
Union Minister Piyush Goyal, who is now in-charge of the Consumer Affairs & Public Distribution Department that oversees Bureau of India Standards (BIS), which issues the ISI mark, said on Monday that the "standard testing fees" should be reduced for start-ups, women entrepreneurs and small-scale units as well.
The COVID-19 shock and resultant humanitarian crisis have reinforced the fact that economic destabilisation is inevitable, if health and environmental boundaries of development are not respected. So, has India spent enough in strengthening these boundaries in the aftermath of the pandemic?
The gross Goods and Services Tax (GST) revenue collected in February stands at ₹1,13,143 crore, which is 7% higher than the revenue in the same month last year. This is in line with the trend of recovery in the GST revenues over the past five months.
Newdelhi: Nine of the 10 most-valued companies lost a whopping ₹2,19,920.71 lakh crore in their total market valuation last week with the barometer Sensex tanking more than 3 per cent.
World’s richest man, Elon Musk, could be betting high on Bitcoin, but the third richest – Bill Gates – doesn’t share his enthusiasm about cryptocurrencies.
The aviation industry is likely to remain cash negative throughout 2021 due to the fall in the travel demand amid restrictions imposed by nations on the account of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the International Air Transport Association (IATA).
An economy battered by COVID pandemic is showing signs of recovery, as was evident on Friday (February 26) when Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for the October-December quarter (Q3) grew by 0.4 per cent, while the GDP for the entire financial year 2020-21 (FY21) is still in the negative with a -8 percent contraction.
It is only 22 yards long and 10 feet wide, but this little strip engulfed by the vast expanse of the outfield is the single most significant piece of the puzzle that’s the game of cricket
London: Former England captain Michael Vaughan has slammed the BCCI for producing pitches that are not deemed good enough for Test cricket and said the more India is allowed to "get away with whatever they wish", the more "toothless" the ...
India registered only their second Test victory inside two days, overhauling a meagre target of 49 against England in the day-night third game to take an unassailable 2-1 lead in the four-match series here on Thursday. The last time India won inside two days in a Test was in 2018, beating Afghanistan in Bengaluru. England's previous Test loss inside two days came way back in 1921 against Australia.
Off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin entered the pantheons of Indian bowling greats as he claimed his 400 scalp on Thursday during the third Test match between India and England
President Ram Nath Kovind inaugurated the revamped Motera cricket stadium, which has been renamed to Narendra Modi Stadium, in Ahmedabad, on Wednesday (February 24)
The Rajapaksa government in Sri Lanka is doing a balancing act: Keeping its strategic and economic relationship with China intact while not annoying close neighbour India.
Baghdad/Washington: US President Joe Biden on Friday said that the US airstrikes targetting facilities belonging to Iranian-backed Iraqi armed in Syria, must be seen as a warning for consequences they...
Washington: Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman approved an operation to capture or kill journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul, according to a US intelligence report submitted to Congress....
Singapore: Singapore's economy will need another 1.2 million digitally skilled workers by 2025 and this would be a 55 per cent jump from the present 2.2 million, according to a survey.
France has moved forward with its first medical marijuana experiment after identifying the companies that will supply products to 3,000 patients for two years, starting in March. Advocates hope the move will lead to the drug's legalisation for medicinal purposes.
The Narendra Modi government has spent over ₹11,300 crore till date to revamp medical infrastructure in the country in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and the biggest share of the amount allocated to states was bagged by the southern state of Tamil Nadu.
Azim Premji University (APU) released a study, on Wednesday (February 10), which found that prolonged closure of schools since March 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic has had an adverse effect on learning among younger children
Private school managements in Bengaluru are up in arms against the Karnataka government’s order on Friday to all schools, to slash 30% of their tuition fees for the academic year 2020-21. A few associations are also strongly contemplating knocking at the doors of the judiciary for a solution to their problems
Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal went live on Twitter, on Tuesday (December 22) at 4 pm, to answer questions from teachers on board exams in 2021, paper pattern, syllabus reduction, and the mode of conduction of the exams
