Recent Views 23 Australia’s Steven Smith takes evasive action against a raising ball on day one of the first cricket test match between South Africa and Australia, in Durban, South Africa, Friday, Oct. 9, 2026. (AP Photo) Australia fielded the oldest playing XI in their men’s Test history in the first Test against South Africa…
Recent Views 18 Russian President Vladimir Putin told US President Donald Trump on Friday that Ukraine had jeopardised the immediate resumption of trilateral peace talks by carrying out drone attacks on Moscow during last month’s parliamentary elections, the Kremlin said.Kremlin foreign policy aide Yuri Ushakov said Putin told Trump that Moscow had been prepared to…
Recent Views 17 NEW DELHI: The unprecedented clampdown in Delhi in the wake of CJP protest, including cancellation of several trains to the city, saw a “slight increase” in last-minute bookings on flights to and from Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA) for this weekend. Airfares on some routes saw a surge, too.Travel industry insiders said…
Recent Views 22 NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court Friday refused to entertain an AIADMK party worker’s petition challenging the Tamil Nadu speaker’s decision to accept AIADMK’s plea to withdraw disqualification petitions against 21 of its legislators who had defied party orders and voted for the confidence motion moved by the governing TVK.A bench headed by…
Recent Views 18 NEW DELHI: Justice Sheel Nagu, who was chief justice of Punjab and Haryana HC for nearly two years prior to his elevation to Supreme Court, on Friday recused from hearing Punjab govt’s appeal against the HC’s order directing a CBI probe into an alleged bribe syndicate, having links with the CM’s OSD,…
Recent Views 32 NEW DELHI: Supreme Court Friday said there is nothing wrong in deletion of names of the dead, and those who have either shifted out from the ward or duplicate names during Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls but said that on the date of notification of elections, the voter list which…
Recent Views 29 Photo credit: www.historic-albany.org For decades, one of Albany’s oldest homes was hiding in plain sight. The Van Ostrande-Radliff House, built in 1728, had been absorbed into later commercial buildings and concealed behind storefronts as the neighbourhood changed around it. Its historic importance became clearer only after neighbouring structures were demolished and the…
Recent Views 23 Inflation has stayed above the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) target of 4% for the past three months (Photo: Reuters). MUMBAI: RBI has tightened daily cash reserve requirements for banks, impounding an additional Rs 1 lakh crore, and has announced a Rs 25,000 crore bond sale, moves that will drain liquidity from…
Recent Views 22 NEW DELHI: Chemists, wholesalers and drug distributors may soon have to seek Centre’s approval before advertising certain prescription medicines, with health ministry proposing to extend existing curbs on advertisements of Schedule H, H1 and X drugs to those involved in their sale and distribution.The proposal assumes significance as regulators have raised concerns…
Recent Views 26 NEW DELHI: From listening to bhajans and reading the Bible to finding the direction of Mecca or discovering what the stars have in store, Indians are increasingly turning to smartphones for matters of faith and fortune. Religious, spiritual and astrology apps recorded nearly 30 crore downloads in the first nine months of…
