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Birmingham, July 29 The Indian women’s hockey team defeated a lowly Ghana 5-0 to start its Commonwealth Games campaign on a winning note here on Friday. The Savita Punia-led team was, however, far from impressive in its first Pool A game. Gurjit Kaur (3rd, 39th minutes) scored a brace, while…

Balwant Garg Faridkot, July 29 Health Minister Chetan Singh Jouramajra has been caught in a tight spot after he asked Baba Farid University of Health Sciences (BFUHS) Vice-Chancellor (VC) Dr Raj Bahadur to lie on a “dirty” patient’s bed at Guru Gobind Singh Medical College and Hospital here on Friday….

Sandeep Dikshit New Delhi, July 29 The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation is poised for a major expansion five years after India and Pakistan became its full members in 2017. Iran will get full member status, becoming the ninth member of SCO and the process has also started for giving Belarus’s full…

Bengaluru, July 29 Amid outrage over the murder of a BJP youth wing leader, the Karnataka Minister Dr C N Ashwath Narayan on Friday favoured “encounter” killings of perpetrators of such incidents and said the state government is ready for it. “Without giving any opportunity, merciless action will be taken….

New Delhi, July 29 Cornered by the BJP, Congress MP Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on Friday wrote to President Droupadi Murmu and apologised to her for his “rashtrapatni” remark. In a letter to the President, he said that he mistakenly used an incorrect word for her and it was a slip…

Birmingham, July 29 Australia beat India by three wickets in the opening Group A game of the Commonwealth Games here on Friday. Electing to bat, India posted a challenging 154 for eight in 20 overs with skipper Harmanpreet Kaur hitting a breezy half-century. Harmanpreet smashed 52 off 34 balls with…

New Delhi, July 29 The Delhi High Court on Friday directed Congress leaders Jairam Ramesh, Pawan Khera and Netta D’Souza to remove ‘defamatory’ tweets, re-tweets, posts, videos and photos from social media in relation to the allegations made against Union Minister Smriti Irani and her daughter. Justice Mini Pushkarna also…

Chandigarh, July 29 Canadian rapper-singer Drake paid another tribute to late Sidhu Moosewala during his latest concert in Toronto. He wore a t-shirt that had Punjabi singer’s picture along with his name printed on it. The t-shirt also had Moosewala’s birth and death year ‘1993-2022’ below his portrait. A…

New Delhi, July 29 The Ministry of Defence on Friday informed the Lok Sabha that a ‘revision of pension’ under the One Rank One Pension (OROP) is in process. Minister of State for Defence Ajay Bhatt in a written reply to the House cited an order of the Supreme Court…

New Delhi, July 29 India made the highest number of legal demands globally to remove content posted by verified journalists and news outlets on Twitter during July-December 2021, the microblogging platform said. In its latest transparency report, Twitter said India is behind only the US in seeking Twitter account information,…

New Delhi, July 29 The Delhi High Court on Friday issued summons to Congress leaders Jairam Ramesh, Pawan Khera and Netta D’Souza on a civil defamation suit filed by Union minister Smriti Irani seeking damages of over Rs 2 crore for allegedly making baseless allegations against her and her daughter….

Shubhadeep Choudhury New Delhi, July 29 Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said a government’s strength rested in its humility to accept that it is not possible for it to control everything. “There was a notion that a strong government means it should control everything and everyone. But we…

New Delhi, July 29 The two pilots of the Indian Air Force, who were killed in an air crash on Thursday night, hailed from Mandi in Himachal Pradesh and Jammu. The IAF announced that Wing Commander M Rana, hailing from Mandi, and Flight Lieutenant Advitiya Bal from Jammu, were in…

New Delhi, July 29 Congress MPs staged a protest in front of the Gandhi statue in Parliament on Friday to demand an apology from the government following the face-off between Congress president Sonia Gandhi and Union minister Smriti Irani. On Thursday, the raging row over Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury…

New Delhi, July 29 BJP MP Nishikant Dubey on Friday said the Lok Sabha would function only after Congress president Sonia Gandhi apologised for party MP Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury’s remark against the President. A political row broke out on Thursday over Chowdhury’s ‘rashtrapatni’ remark with the BJP launching an all-out…