The Pakistan team bus reached the stadium with more than an hour to go for the delayed start (Image via X/Screengrabs & Pratyush Raj/TOI) The Asia Cup clash between Pakistan and the United Arab Emirates in Dubai on Wednesday was delayed by an hour after a dramatic standoff involving the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) and…
NEW DELHI: A labourer, 40, died and two of his colleagues are critical after being sent into a manhole to repair and clean it in northwest Delhi’s Ashok Vihar Phase-II late on Tuesday night. None of them had any safety equipment. When the first worker collapsed after inhaling poisonous fumes, another went in to save…
An Indian-origin businessman, Paramjit Singh, who has been a green card holder in America for over 30 years, has been detained by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for more than a month. Singh, who has been doing business in Fort Wayne, Indiana, for three decades, was detained at Chicago O’Hare Airport in July while…
NAGPUR: Day after Maoist call for truce, five C-60 commando teams and a CRPF battalion cordoned off a guerrilla hideout in the dense Modaske forests in Gadchiroli’s Etapalli tehsil and shot dead two dreaded women commanders, who carried a cumulative bounty of Rs 14 lakh, reports Soumitra Bose.The high-stakes jungle encounter slashed Maoist ranks in…
NEW DELHI: The prospects of early resumption of talks between the Centre and the Apex Body, Leh (ABL) on the latter’s demand for safeguards for Ladakh, have brightened with ABL agreeing to drop political parties’ representatives from its negotiating team and veteran leader Thupstan Chhewang consenting to lead the dialogue once again.Chhewang and Congress leader…
RUDRAPUR: The body of a 14-year-old girl with a broken hand and bearing multiple stab wounds was found lying in a sugarcane field, 150m from her home in a village in Uttarakhand’s Udham Singh Nagar district Tuesday. The accused, a 20-year-old from the same village, was arrested Wednesday. According to police, the Class 8 student…
NEW DELHI: The three-day combined commanders’ conference (CCC) at Kolkata, which concluded on Wednesday, has chalked out a roadmap to transform the armed forces into a more integrated, technologically advanced and operationally agile force, fully capable of addressing multi-domain threats, safeguarding national interests and contributing to nation-building.A new joint military space doctrine, which is “a…
MUMBAI: Police late on Wednesday evening arrested a man, identified as Upendra Pawaskar, for allegedly defacing the statue of the late Meenatai Thackeray, wife of Shiv Sena founder (late) Bal Thackeray, at Shivaji Park. The statue had been found defaced with oil paint, prompting police to launch a probe amid outrage voiced by workers from…
Paramjit Singh, an Indian who immigrated to the United States more than 30 years ago, has been detained by the ICE and kept in custody for over a month now. Paramjit is a green card holder and has been doing business in Fort Wayne, Indiana, for the last three decades. He was detained at Chicago…
TIRUPATI: A sand-laden lorry speeding on the wrong side of the road crashed into an SUV and dragged it for some distance, killing seven members of a family, near Peramana village in Nellore district of Andhra Pradesh Wednesday.The deceased were identified as Talluru Srinivasulu (36), his wife Talluru Radha (38), Sesham Saramma (40), Challagundla Lakshmi…
