NEW DELHI: Sunrisers Hyderabad defeated Chennai Super Kings by five wickets in their Indian Premier League clash on Friday, keeping their play-off hopes alive. With this loss, CSK are now virtually out of the race for the knockouts, while SRH remain in contention—at least mathematically.Asked to bat first, Chennai Super Kings were bowled out for…
NEW DELHI: Bharti Airtel‘s about Rs 41,000-crore of adjusted gross revenue (AGR) dues will not be converted into equity automatically as the telco’s application for such conversion will go through a scrutiny at the Department of Telecom (DoT), an official source said on Friday.Bharti Airtel has sought conversion of its AGR dues of around Rs…
NEW DELHI: In a significant step towards river-sensitive urban development, the National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG) – a central nodal agency for river rejuvenation – has approved an action plan for 145 cities, located along different rivers across the country, which is to be implemented in 2025 for keeping stretches of the respective rivers…
According to a 2024 report by Money Control, in collaboration with the indigenous Waorani people and with support from National Geographic’s Disney+ series Pole to Pole featuring Will Smith, scientists have uncovered new insights. They explored the heart of the Baihuaeri Waorani Territory in the Ecuadorian Amazon, documenting the massive size of the Northern Green…
NEW DELHI: Pakistan violated the ceasefire along the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir by resorting to unprovoked small arms firing from multiple posts across the Kashmir valley on the night of April 25-26, a defence official said Saturday.“On the night of April 25-26, unprovoked small firing was carried out by multiple Pakistan…
HYDERABAD: India’s mid-market GCCs (global capability centres) are experiencing a surge, outshining their peers by unlocking new opportunities. This growth is creating a flywheel effect, allowing them to leverage a diverse talent pool. India has over 480 mid-market GCCs, with 2.1 lakh employees, as shown in a Nasscom-Zinnov report. Mid-market GCCs are capability centres set…
The ‘Gadar 2’ star made it to the big screens this year with ‘Jaat.’ Released on April 10, 2025, the movie has completed a successful theatrical run of 16 days and entered the third week. With its fair share of ups and downs, it maintained a strong grip at the box office and currently has…
The National Commission for Women-led committee inquiring into the communal violence in West Bengal’s Murshidabad has observed that the strife had a particularly “devastating impact” on women and girls. It also said there was “a complete breakdown of administrative machinery and governance” in Murshidabad. “Despite prior intelligence and visible tensions in the area, state govt…
A Russian general was killed by a car bomb Friday, Russia’s top criminal investigation agency said, in the second such attack on a top Russian military officer in four months that Moscow blamed on Ukraine. The committee said Lt Gen Yaroslav Moskalik, a deputy head of the main operational department in the general staff of…
NEW DELHI: Over the past decade, India has significantly reduced poverty with extreme poverty declining from 16.2% in 2011-12 to 2.3% in 2022-23, lifting 171 million people above the poverty line, a World Bank report said on Friday.Rural extreme poverty dropped from 18.4% to 2.8% and urban from 10.7% to 1.1%, narrowing the rural-urban gap…
