- Sports
IPL 2022: Delhi Capitals win toss, elect to bowl first against Punjab Kings
Mumbai: Delhi Capitals skipper Rishabh Pant has won the toss and elected to bowl first against Punjab Kings at the Brabourne Stadium on Wednesday. While Delhi are currently placed eighth in the…
- World
Russia has zero confidence in Ukrainian negotiators
Moscow: Moscow has no confidence in the Ukrainian negotiators, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said. “Here it’s not like ‘trust and verify’ — here it’s just ‘verify’, because there is no…
- Andhra Pradesh
Over 70 held for rape of minor Andhra girl pushed into flesh trade
Amaravati: Andhra Pradesh Police have arrested over 70 persons in connection with the rape of a minor girl during the last eight months. The 13-year-old victim from Guntur district was pushed into…
- World
UN chief calls for 4-day pause in fighting in Ukraine during Easter
United Nations: UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres called for a four-day humanitarian pause in fighting in Ukraine to allow for the opening of humanitarian aid corridors during the Orthodox Christian Holy Week.…
- Middle East
Erdogan urges Israel to not allow ‘provocations’ against Al-Aqsa Mosque
Ankara: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan urged his Israeli counterpart Isaac Herzog not to allow “provocations and threats” against the status and spirituality of the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. Taking to Twitter,…
- India
TV debate on court matters amounts to interference in administration of justice: SC
New Delhi: The Supreme Court has observed that all matters connected with a crime and whether something is a “conclusive piece of evidence” must be dealt with by a court of law,…
- Andhra Pradesh
Andhra Pradesh: Naidu turns 72, gears up for another poll battle
Amaravati: As he turned 72 on Wednesday, former Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Nara Chandrababu Naidu is gearing up for another electoral battle in his long chequered career. Nearly three years after suffering…
- Middle East
Iraq summons Turkish envoy in protest over military operations
Baghdad: The Iraqi Foreign Ministry summoned the Turkish envoy in protest over Turkey’s cross-border offensive against the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in northern Iraq. The ministry handed Ambassador Ali Reza Guney a…
- Middle East
Israeli FM urges int’l help for restoring peace in Jerusalem
Jerusalem: Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid called for international help in restoring calm in East Jerusalem during a phone talk with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken over the rising Israeli-Palestinian tensions.…
- Technology
Musk willing to boost personal Twitter investment to $15 bn: Report
San Francisco: Tech billionaire Elon Musk is reportedly willing to invest between $10 billion and $15 billion of his own cash to take the micro-blogging site Twitter private, media reports say. Musk,…
- Sports
Pele returns to the hospital for cancer treatment
Sao Paulo: Brazilian football great Pele has been readmitted to the hospital for ongoing cancer treatment, doctors said on Tuesday. The 81-year-old has undergone several sessions of chemotherapy in Sao Paulo since…
- Sports
Despite history, Chess Olympiad for the differently-abled will not be held in India
Chennai: Even as the Tamil Nadu government and All India Chess Federation (AICF) are gearing up to hold the 44th Chess Olympiad at Mahabalipuram near here in July-August, Chennai hosted the first…
- World
Microplastics entering human food supplies in South Australian waters
Canberra: Microplastics are making their way into human food supplies in oceans around Australia, researchers have found. In a study published recently in Science of the Total Environment, a team from Flinders…
- Telangana
BJP seeks Telangana governor’s intervention to check ‘excesses’ by TRS
Hyderabad: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Telangana on Wednesday sought Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan’s intervention to check what it calls excesses by the leaders of the ruling party. Alleging that there is…
- World
Massive outages reported as snowstorm hits US
New York: Hundreds of thousands of power outages were reported on Tuesday as a snowstorm lashed multiple states in the northeastern US. Power outages took place in New York, Pennsylvania, Maine, New…
