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At 29, Quinton de Kock announces retirement from Test cricket
Johannesburg: South Africa’s star wicketkeeper-batter Quinton de Kock on Thursday announced his retirement from Test cricket with immediate effect, said the country’s apex body, CSA, hours after the team’s defeat in the…
- Business
Rupee gains 12 paise to 74.30 against US dollar in early trade
Mumbai: The rupee appreciated by 12 paise to 74.30 against the US dollar in opening trade on Friday, tracking gains in domestic equity markets. At the interbank foreign exchange, the rupee opened…
- Business
Sensex surges over 350 pts in early trade; Nifty above 17,300
Mumbai: Equity benchmark Sensex jumped over 350 points in early trade on Friday, led by strong gains in index majors ICICI Bank, Reliance Industries and HDFC amid mixed cues from Asian markets.…
- India
All political parties want UP polls on time: CEC
Lucknow: Chief Election Commissioner Sushil Chandra on Thursday said all political parties in Uttar Pradesh want the Assembly elections to be held according to schedule while ensuring Covid protocol. The CEC also…
- India
Decision on which vaccine to be given as precautionary dose expected soon: Govt
New Delhi: There have been extensive deliberations on whether the precautionary (third) dose of Covid vaccine for healthcare and frontline workers and citizens above 60 years with comorbidities should be the same…
- Sports
KL Rahul: 2021 will go down as one of the greatest years in Indian cricket
Centurion: From a near impossible win at the Gabba with a second-string side to walloping a hapless South Africa in their own backyard, 2021 can easily go down in the annals as…
- Business
Rupee spurts by 29 paise to over 1-month high
Mumbai: The rupee surged 29 paise to close at a more than one-month high of 74.42 against the US dollar on Thursday following year-end dollar selling by banks and exporters amid muted…
- India
Journalists must resist being ‘co-opted by ideology or state’: CJI
Mumbai: The freedom of the press was a valuable and sacred right enshrined in the Constitution and a fearless media was essential for an efficient working of democracy, Chief Justice of India (CJI)…
- India
K’taka govt’s plans to free temples from state control “a historical blunder”: Cong
Bengaluru: The Congress Karnataka unit president D K Shivakumar on Thursday described the BJP government’s plans to free Hindu temples from state control as a historic blunder and said that his party…
- Telangana
Telugu body to promote language in non-Telugu states
Jamshedpur: In an attempt to promote Telugu language and culture in non-Telugu states of the country and abroad, a social organization of the community has decided to launch online classes to teach…
- Kashmir
Light snowfall likely in Kashmir over weekend
Srinagar: Cold wave conditions intensified across Kashmir as the minimum temperature at most places in the valley went down, even as the Meteorological Department has forecast further fall in the temperature over…
- Telangana
2021: Telangana witnesses political slugfest between ruling TRS and BJP
Hyderabad: An intensified political rivalry between the ruling TRS and BJP that virtually manifested in the “paddy wars” between the state government and the Centre, the saffron party delivering yet another electoral…
- Photos
Yearenders 2021: Most published pictures
New Delhi: ‘No Photography’ signboard put at the construction site of Central Vista Project, in New Delhi, Wednesday, May 12, 2021. (PTI Photo/Manvender Vashist) East Midnapore: A vehicle partially buried in the…
- Business
Sensex, Nifty start on choppy note; finance stocks decline
Mumbai: Equity benchmarks Sensex and Nifty opened on a choppy note on Thursday, tracking weakness in index heavyweights Reliance Industries, SBI and ICICI Bank amid a mixed trend in global markets. The…
- India
Danish Siddiqui posthumously gets Mumbai Press Club’s RedInk Award
Mumbai: Photojournalist Danish Siddiqui, who died during an assignment in Afghanistan, has been posthumously awarded as the Journalist of the Year’ for 2020 by the Mumbai Press Club. Chief Justice of India…
