RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat at Rashtra Chetna Sankalp Sabha in Udaipur Wednesday Udaipur: RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat Wednesday reignited the long-running debate over the Battle of Haldighati, asserting that Maharana Pratap emerged victorious in the 1576 conflict and accusing historians of constructing a narrative that understated his resistance to Mughal rule.Addressing the ‘Rashtra Chetna Sankalp…
India’s captain Shubman Gill (AP Photo) Shubman Gill added another feather to his cap during his commanding century against Afghanistan in Lucknow on Wednesday, surpassing MS Dhoni on the list of fastest Indians to 1,000 ODI runs in terms of balls faced.The India captain reached the four-figure milestone in just 954 deliveries, edging past former…
MUMBAI: The wait is over, finally. National Stock Exchange (NSE), the largest stock exchange in India, on Wednesday night filed papers with markets regulator Sebi for its initial public offer (IPO) through which, according to estimates, more than Rs 30,000 crore could be raised. This will make the NSE IPO the largest such offer in…
NEW DELHI: Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla Wednesday invited TMC general secretary Abhishek Banerjee for a meeting on June 19 to present his case on the split in the Mamata Banerjee-led party.Sources in TMC said the party has received an email from the Speaker’s office and Abhishek will be travelling to Delhi to meet Birla…
AURAIYA/KANPUR: Auraiya police on Wednesday arrested a man for attempting to kill his 14-year-old daughter after targeting her over her transgender characteristics.The accused allegedly beat the minor with a stick, threw her into the Patna canal and fled, police said.The girl, a resident of Kotwali Shivli area of Kanpur Dehat, survived because the canal’s water…
Kota: Congress MP Rahul Gandhi waded Wednesday into India’s high-pressure exam culture, urging students in Rajasthan’s coaching hub Kota to dream beyond the familiar career script of engineer, doctor, lawyer, IAS or armed forces, while branding the education system a “rejection system” that breeds stress, despair and tragedy.Addressing more than 5,000 registered students at the…
. Ex-CM Mamata Banerjee participating in a protest rally in Kolkata on Wednesday against hawker eviction and demolition drives —– Photo by Indranil Das Kolkata: The Bengal govt on Wednesday replaced the personal security officers (PSOs) assigned to former CM Mamata Banerjee for nearly two decades, but Banerjee declined to accept the new personnel, her…
Two of the six Sena UBT MPs said to be part of the breakaway group, Omraje Nimbalkar from Dharashiv and Sanjay Patil from Mumbai North East, have not signed the letter sent to LS Speaker for recognition as a separate group, Sena UBT claimed.Patil and Nimbalkar claimed they were not in New Delhi on Wednesday….
NEW DELHI: Long confined to street-corner arguments, village chaupals and late-night college addas, cuss words such as ‘b…sdi’ and ‘g…u’ found a place in mainstream political discourse on Wednesday, with Sena UBT’s Sanjay Raut using them at a presser to describe defectors, and then telling reporters, “Don’t cut it, run it.“When questioned on his language,…
Representative photo (AP) NEW DELHI: Drug price regulator National Pharmaceuticals Pricing Authority (NPPA) has approved a 20% price hike for Serum Institute of India‘s BCG, measles and measles-rubella vaccines.This move is unusual since price hikes are rare when one company dominates the market.NPPA had fixed the pr-ice ceiling in Dec 2024 based on Pharmarack data…