NEW DELHI: Rumesh Tharanga Pathirage’s sensational season has entered another gear, and for India’s Olympic and world champion Neeraj Chopra, the road to the Diamond League Final and Asian Games now comes with an unmistakable warning.The Sri Lankan javelin star produced a breathtaking 92.07m in Zurich on Thursday to underline why he has become the…
In the heart of the city, inhabitants exhibit a remarkable ability to find comfort in unconventional places (Photo credit: Anindya Chattopadhyay) NEW DELHI: In a city, almost anything can become a place to sit, stretch out or sleep.A beam can be a bench, a pile of tyres a cushion and a tree branch or iron…
Render of ₹261 crore global sports city project was planned at Semmancheri, along the OMR Chennai: Barely six months after laying its foundation stone, state govt has pulled the plug on the ₹261 crore global sports city project at Semmancheri. It has decided to go back to the drawing board to redesign the facility on…
The AIMIM has expelled a Telangana legislative council member Mirza Rahmat Baig (Photo credit: Facebook/@Mirza Rahmat Baig) HYDERABAD: The All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) has expelled Telangana Legislative Council member Mirza Rahmat Baig from the party with immediate effect, according to a party statement.SA Hussain Anwar, joint secretary of AIMIM, said Baig had also been…
Gujarat draws up plan to free 25 locations of beggary Ahmedabad: Gujarat has launched a rehabilitation programme to make Vadodara, Gir Somnath, Ekta Nagar and Pavagadh and 21 other places free of beggary as part of central govt’s SMILE (support for marginalised individuals for livelihood and enterprise) campaign. These locations had performed well in the…
Chandigarh: A day after the ‘Maha Hartal’ by Punjab govt employees prompted the personnel department to seek details of staff on “unauthorised absence”, departments have started submitting their responses, with some clarifying that employees who did not attend work had formally availed leave.The department of employment generation and skill development, for instance, informed the personnel…
Pune: The state govt has increased the honorarium paid to teachers working on an hourly basis in govt residential schools, citing rising inflation and difficulties in attracting qualified teachers at the existing rates.From the academic year 2026-27, eligible teachers will be paid between Rs205 and Rs250 per hour. The social justice and special assistance department…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi gestures as he boards the flight for Tashkent, Uzbekistan, in New Delhi NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday embarked on a four-day visit to Uzbekistan and the Kyrgyz Republic, during which he will hold bilateral talks with Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev and attend the 26th Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO)…
Three ancient Greek rings that were likely made using meteoritic iron and other precious metals, PC: Journal Archaeological Science Long before iron smelting became widespread in Greece, some Bronze Age elites were already wearing jewellery made from iron that may have come from meteorites. A five-year study by Matthieu Gounelle of France’s National Museum of…
US Fed chairman Kevin Warsh Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh has indicated that the US central bank may need to raise interest rates in the coming months if inflation does not make enough progress towards its 2% target.Speaking at the Fed’s annual conference in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, on Friday, Warsh acknowledged that recent US data…
