Middle-order batsman Deepak Hooda, who starred for Rajasthan Royals in an Indian Premier League (IPL) match against Delhi Daredevils on Sunday, credited the team management and mentor Rahul Dravid for his match-winning knock. In reply to Daredevils’ 184/3, Royals were struggling at 78/4 in the 11th over when Hooda joined opener Ajinkya Rahane in the […]
A man was beaten to death by his relatives for not using a mat gifted by them to offer namaz prayers, police said on Saturday. The incident was reported from east Delhi’s Welcome area on Friday. Mansoob Khan, 42, was beaten to death by Hanif and his relatives. His elder brothers, Sultan and Mukhtar, were […]
A 25-year-old school teacher has been arrested on charges of molesting schoolgirls in the city, police said on Saturday. The incident was reported from a private senior secondary school in central Delhi’s Anand Parbat area where the accused is posted as a computer teacher. Police said that victims’ family members approached them on Saturday morning […]
Soldiers slain in battle “attain heavenly worlds” or in victory, “enjoy the earth”, Prime Minister Narendra Modi wrote in the visitors book after paying homage on Saturday at the Indian Memorial at Neuve Chapelle commemorating Indian soldiers who sacrificed their lives on the Western Front during World War I. “Hato va Prapsyasi Swargam, Jitva va […]
Jagmohan Dalmiya has seen it all. Pushing 75, the comeback man of the Indian cricket board now has little aspiration or drive to grapple with issues confronting the game. Circumstances conspired to put him in the saddle a decade after he was unceremoniously booted out by his detractors. It is a different matter that the […]
With India as the official partner at this year’s Hanover Messe, touted as the world’s largest industrial fair, Russia’s top innovation fund, the Skolkovo Foundation, has drawn up plans to engage with India Inc for joint projects in a host of areas, its top brass has said. Around 350 companies from India are expected to […]
Emphasising that each of its A320 family of aircraft has a “Make in India” tag today, Airbus Industrie told Prime Minister Narendra Modi at its huge campus here on Saturday that it will step up its sourcing volume from the country to $2 billion. One of the billboards, in fact, that greeted Prime Minister Modi […]
New Delhi, April 10 (IANS) The Delhi government on Friday asked Delhi Police to install CCTV cameras inside police stations and sought a list of “dark spots” considered dangerous for women. In a letter from Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s office to Delhi Police Commissioner B. S. Bassi, complaints regarding non-accessibility of beat constables and non-registration […]
Hyderabad, April 10 (IANS) The Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM) urged the National Commission for Backward Classes to include of 14 socially and educationally backward castes of Muslims in the central list of other backward classes for the states of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh. The party made a representation to the commission on Friday, the last day […]
Patna, April 10 (IANS) Union minister of state for human resources development Upendra Kushwaha on Friday said the central government is planning to revive Vikramshila University, an ancient seat of Buddhist learning in Bihar, on the lines of Nalanda University. “My ministry is working on revival of Vikramshila University on lines of the revived Nalanda […]