India’s Koneru Humpy (FIDE/Anna Shtourman via PTI Photo) Panaji : Only a spot in the top 10 in the women’s world rankings makes it sustainable for girls to be chess-playing professionals, feels India’s top-ranked woman player K Humpy. “That bracket makes it sustainable to be professionals. But for the rest, it’s still not comfortable even…
Lucknow: BSP president Mayawati on Tuesday said the announcement by Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav to hold seminars and other events on the death anniversary of BSP founder Kanshi Ram on Oct 9 is a “blatant deception.”“The attitude of the opposition parties, especially the Samajwadi Party and the Congress, towards Kanshi Ram Ji has always…
D Gukesh and Divya Deshmukh (Screengrab) SuperChess emerged victorious at the 40th European Club Cup 2025 Open, achieving a perfect score of 14/14 after they secured a crucial win against Tuxera Aquaprofit Nagykanizsai Sakk Klub with a score of 2.5-3.5.Alkaloid claimed the second position for the second consecutive year as the defending champion Novy Bor…
Neeraj Chopra in action in the Zurich Diamond League (via Getty Images) New Delhi: Simply speaking, it wasn’t Neeraj Chopra’s night in Zurich. India’s Olympic and world champion was off-colour, under-pressure and inconsistent during his fourth Diamond League Finals appearance on late Thursday, where the 27-year-old javelin ace was looking to reclaim the title he…
Lucknow: Lucknow police have extended the registration deadline for public transport vehicle owners and drivers under the Safe Drive project from August 31 to September 30.JCP (L&O) Babloo Kumar said, “To implement technical improvements in the website and registration software for vehicle owners and drivers, the last date has been revised to Sept 30.“He added…
Across the United States, a quiet but consequential rewriting of sex education is underway. In school districts from Georgia to Wyoming, lessons that once acknowledged the existence of transgender and non-binary youth are being erased line by line. It is not teachers or parents driving this change, but a directive from the Trump administration, one…
MUMBAI: The rupee bucked the trend among Asian peers on Friday, slipping to a record low even as most emerging market currencies strengthened against the dollar. It closed at 88.27 after touching an intra-day low of 88.36, weaker than Thursday’s close of 88.15.The fall came amid concerns over US tariffs, while intervention by Reserve Bank…
UP NEET PG counselling 2025: The Directorate General of Medical Education and Training (DGME), Uttar Pradesh has released the Round 2 seat allotment result for Uttar Pradesh National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test Postgraduate (UP NEET PG) Counselling 2025 today. Candidates who participated in the second round of counselling can now access their allotment status through the official…
NEW DELHI: Over two months after a 65-year-old woman was robbed and murdered in her house in northwest Delhi’s Rohini, police arrested her tenant on Wednesday. The accused, Himanshu Yadav, claimed that the woman, Naresh Kumari, had allegedly humiliated and slapped him after he defaulted on rent, leading him to plot the crime. On October…
NEW DELHI: BJP MP from Farrukhabad, Mukesh Rajput’s sister Reena Singh, has lodged a police complaint accusing her in-laws of assault, officials said on Sunday.According to the complaint, Reena alleged that her father-in-law, Laxman Singh, along with her brothers-in-law, Rajesh and Girish, attacked her and threatened to kill her.In her complaint, Reena Singh alleged that…