THE NATIONAL CONFERENCE-Congress alliance is likely to form government in Jammu and Kashmir with poll trends on Tuesday showing the combine ahead in 51 of the 90 seats while the BJP was leading in 28. The National Conference and BJP have so far bagged two seats each. Trends uploaded by…
INDIA on Monday asserted that its friendly ties with the Maldives will continue, thereby signalling a reset of the relationship that had hit a rough patch last year due to Maldives' anti-New Delhi rhetoric. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Mohamed Muizzu reviewed the bilateral relationship and agreed on a…
DIPA KARMAKAR, who blazed a trail by becoming the first Indian woman gymnast to compete at the Olympics and finish a historic fourth, announced her retirement on Monday. During her career, she inspired awe for routinely performing the highly-difficult Produnova vault. The diminutive 31-year-old from Tripura grabbed headlines with her…
WILDLIFE experts have interpreted the sighting of a lowland bird like the peacock at a height of 6,500 feet in Uttarakhand as an unusual development caused by ecological changes in the Himalayan region due to increased human activity. The bird was spotted twice in the forests of Bageshwar district in…
ACTOR Ananya Panday has emerged as a leading figure in telling stories rooted in modern technology, starring in recent projects like "CTRL," "Call Me Bae," and "Kho Gaye Hum Kahan." The timing of these projects, each of which explores the influence of digital life, appears connected but Panday maintains this…
DURGA puja, West Bengal's biggest carnival, is likely to be subdued this year as calls to boycott the festivities grow in response to protests over the brutal rape-murder of a woman doctor at RG Kar hospital in August, casting a shadow over the city's festive spirit. The killing of the…
ZOMATO CEO Deepinder Goyal has said that malls need to be "more humane" towards delivery partners, sharing his first-hand experience as a delivery executive picking up orders for the food tech giant. The Zomato CEO and his wife Grecia Munoz, who changed her name to Gia Goyal on Instagram, earlier…
ACTOR Ranveer Singh on Monday shared that his wife Deepika Padukone was pregnant with their first child during the filming of Rohit Shetty's "Singham Again." The couple became parents to a baby girl on September 8. During the trailer launch event for "Singham Again," Ranveer mentioned that their newborn daughter…
VETERAN industrialist and Tata Sons Chairman Emeritus Ratan Tata on Monday said there is no cause for concern regarding his health and he is undergoing check-ups for age-related medical conditions. Terming as "rumours" reports of his hospitalisation in a Mumbai hospital, in a post on social media platform X, 86-year-old…
MAYANK YADAV and Nitish Kumar Reddy were expectedly nervous ahead of their India debut in the first T20 International against Bangladesh in Gwalior, but the newcomers said skipper Suryakumar Yadav helped them stay calm with his comforting words. Mayank, the 22-year-old pace sensation, made his debut here on Sunday after…