Posters outside JD(U) office in Patna (ANI) NEW DELHI: Janata Dal (United) workers on Sunday put up posters outside the party’s Patna office urging chief minister Nitish Kumar’s son, Nishant Kumar, to contest the upcoming Bihar assembly elections.Also Read | ‘My father is 100% fit’: Nitish Kumar’s son asks voters to make him CM again…
Bangladesh Cricket Board (IANS Photo) The Bangladesh Cricket Board held a meeting in Dhaka on Saturday where they announced three key appointments. Alex Marshall, Julian Wood, and Tony Hemming have joined the board in different capacities.Julian Wood, who previously worked with Sri Lanka Cricket as a power-hitting specialist, has been appointed as a specialist batting…
USCIS updates CSPA age calculation: What immigrant children need to know The US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has announced an important update to its policy on calculating age under the Child Status Protection Act (CSPA). This change affects how the agency determines the availability of visas for immigrant children applying for lawful permanent resident…
TOI Correspondent from Washington: “There are no Democrats and Republicans in Washington anymore, only ‘ins’ and ‘outs.’” is the new mantra in the US capital. India may be finding that out the hard way amid questions on whether its newly-hired lobbyist is delivering the goods after the tariff fiasco and if he is being outplayed…
Nobel laureate Abhijit Banerjee has said India should reassess whether importing cheap oil from Russia is “worth it” after the Trump administration imposed an additional 25 per cent tariff on Indian goods, taking the total levy to 50 per cent — one of the highest by the US on any country.The latest tariff hike, signed…
Former Gujarat cricket captain Priyank Panchal has announced his retirement from all forms of cricket in May 2025, sharing his perspective during a recent “Ask Me Anything” session on social media platform X. The 35-year-old domestic cricket veteran, who had previously led India A and been part of the senior national squad, explained his decision…
Punjab National Bank (PNB), the country’s second-largest public sector lender, has identified more than 100 non-performing asset (NPA) accounts for sale to asset reconstruction companies (ARCs) during the current financial year in a bid to strengthen recoveries.“More than 100 accounts we have identified… the book size will be somewhere around Rs 4,000–5,000 crore. That is…
NEW DELHI: The new Class 8 Social Science textbook released by the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) has drawn attention for omitting references to Tipu Sultan, Haidar Ali, and the Anglo-Mysore wars of the 1700s. In response to questions raised in Parliament, the Union government clarified that states have the flexibility to…
NEW DELHI: Union minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Sunday said India has emerged as the leading supplier of smartphones to the United States, with electronics manufacturing in the country now valued at Rs 12 lakh crore.Speaking at the inauguration of metro projects in Bengaluru, Vaishnaw said India’s electronic production has grown sixfold in the past 11…
The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) has proposed a series of comprehensive land reforms to bolster India’s position as a global manufacturing hub. Key among these proposals is the creation of a GST-like Council to facilitate coordinated and consensus-based land reforms across the country. CII suggests standardizing stamp duty rates to a uniform 3 to…
