Lucknow: Nearly 27 lakh power department employees and engineers across India staged protests on Thursday against the privatization of the power sector and the proposed Electricity (amendment) bill 2025. The nationwide agitation was organized under the banner of the National Coordination Committee of Electricity Employees and Engineers (NCCOEEE).According to Shailendra Dubey, chairman of the All…
NEW DELHI: Several of the Congress leaders who contested the recent Bihar assembly elections conveyed to the party’s top brass on Thursday that the NDA government’s Rs 10,000 transfer to women beneficiaries, delay in seat-sharing deal among the Mahagathbandhan allies, internal rift and “electoral malpractices” were among the reasons for the poll debacle. Congress president…
Goa winger Dejan Drazic tries to work his way past Al Zawraa defence during their AFC Champions League 2 clash in Baghdad on Wednesday Another continental game, another defeat, in a clash where FC Goa started on a promising note but ended with nothing.Reduced to ten men in the 34th minute with Ayush Chhetri sent…
NEW DELHI: Karnataka deputy chief minister DK Shivakumar on Thursday clarified that his recent social media post on “word power” was meant to mark Constitution Day and was addressed to the legal fraternity after chief minister Siddaramaiah countered him thorough a social media post amid ongoing debate over leadership and political messaging.Speaking to reporters, Shivakumar…
NEW DELHI: An Air India flight operating as AI 2939, travelling from Delhi to Ahmedabad, was forced to make an emergency landing at Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport late Monday night after smoke was detected in the aircraft’s cargo hold. The flight, which had only recently taken off for its scheduled journey to Ahmedabad, declared…
Representative image (AI) NEW DELHI: Highway contractors and concessionaires not meeting project quality standards will get up to 30 negative marks — a penalty that will lower their ratings and make it more difficult for them to secure new contracts in the future. Conversely, contractors who complete projects on time and maintain high quality will…
The European Central Bank (ECB) sees interest rates as appropriately placed for now but has left room for potential cuts in 2026, according to minutes of its October meeting released on Thursday, AFP reported.The minutes showed that October’s unanimous decision to hold the key deposit rate at 2 per cent reflected broad agreement with Chief…
Lucknow: In a breakthrough against narcotics networks operating across eastern and northern India, the Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force (STF) on Thursday arrested a key operative involved in the illegal storage and trafficking of Fensidyl cough syrup and other codeine-based drugs used as intoxicants. The accused, Amit Kumar Singh alias Amit Tata, a resident of…
Sri Lanka’s Dushmantha Chameera (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri) Sri Lanka secured their place in the T20 tri-series final with a six-run victory over Pakistan, thanks to Dushmantha Chameera’s impressive bowling figures of 4-20.Pakistan, despite already qualifying for Saturday’s final with three consecutive wins, fell short at 178-7, with captain Salman Ali Agha scoring an unbeaten 63.Sri…
A devastating fire tore through high-rise residential towers in Hong Kong and killed at least 44 people and left over 250 missing.The hellfire raised an urgent question about why the blaze spread so quickly and what fuelled its deadly outburst. An ‘unusual’ fire that crept with help of styrofoam The disaster was one of the…
