Jasprit Bumrah (Image credit: BCCI/IPL) NEW DELHI: Star pacer Jasprit Bumrah was handed the Mumbai Indians captaincy in the absence of both regular skipper Hardik Pandya and stand-in captain Suryakumar Yadav during their IPL 2026 clash against Punjab Kings. It was the first time Bumrah led the Mumbai Indians side, a franchise he has represented…
Jaipur: A 30-year-old woman from Gangapur area of Bhilwara district died Monday within hours of giving birth to a baby through normal delivery, marking the fifth maternal death reported in the district this month. Four maternal deaths were already recorded from Bhilwara in the first week of July.Seema delivered the baby at the community health…
Class 9 students hit hardest as NCERT books remain unavailable in Bengaluru schools. (Representative Image) BENGALURU: Schools have reopened, but several CBSE schools in the city are reeling under shortage of NCERT (National Council of Educational Research and Training) textbooks, thus affecting their academic schedules. While schools say there is a shortage of books for…
Pune: Persistent technical glitches and frequent server outages on the Mahaonline portal over the past four days have paralysed services under the Right to Services (RTS) Act, affecting students, parents, and Maha e-Seva centre operators across Maharashtra.Applications for essential documents, including caste, income, non-creamy layer, domicile, and nationality certificates, have remained pending due to repeated…
A video of the heated argument over language use had gone viral on social media. MUMBAI: A preliminary inquiry into the altercation between a passenger and a ticket checker aboard an air-conditioned Mumbai suburban train has found that the railway employee acted in accordance with the law and prescribed procedures, Western Railway said on Monday.The…
Palghar: Police recovered the skeleton of a 32-year-old history-sheeter from the water tank of a housing complex at Nalasopara in Maharashtra’s Palghar district, nearly five months after he went missing, and arrested five men for allegedly murdering him, officials said on Saturday.The victim, identified as Ravi Bidlan, went missing on Jan 15 this year, they…
Dinesh Trivedi (PTI image) NEW DELHI: India has proposed the name of West Bengal BJP functionary Dinesh Trivedi as the next high commissioner to Bangladesh. According to official sources, Dhaka’s approval is awaited for what would be a rare political appointment in the neighbourhood. Trivedi (75) has served multiple terms as MP in both Lok…
Bengaluru: A fresh political row has erupted over the proposed Bidadi township project, with former Prime Minister and JD(S) national president HD Deve Gowda alleging that a powerful “land mafia” is operating in Karnataka under the Congress govt patronage.A day after Union minister HD Kumaraswamy accused deputy chief minister DK Shivakumar of turning the Bidadi…
NEW DELHI: National Testing Agency has terminated 47 officials and begun rebuilding its workforce with specialist leadership in cybersecurity, forensic investigation, test-centre operations and assessment research, govt sources said Friday. The crackdown follows the NEET-UG paper leak, which forced nearly 20 lakh candidates to take the medical entrance test again on June 21 after the…
New Delhi: A court has convicted a man of sexually assaulting a five-year-old boy in a 2022 Pocso case, observing that a child of such an age “would never implicate an unknown person without any motive”. Holding the boy’s testimony to be “so natural” that it could not be disbelieved, the court convicted the accused…
