Senior functionary Narinder Batra on Friday resigned as the associate vice-president of the Indian Olympic Association as a mark of protest against the IOA for not taking back its decision to appoint scam-tainted Suresh Kalmadi and Abhay Singh Chautala as honorary life presidents. Strongly expressing his reservations over the appointments, Batra, who recently became the International Hockey Federation (FIH) president, […]
» Read moreMohammad Irfan has been recalled to the Pakistan One-Day International squad for the five-match series against Australia, the Pakistan Cricket Board announced on Friday (December 30). Squad: Azhar Ali (c), Sharjeel Khan, Babar Azam, Shoaib Malik, Asad Shafiq, Umar Akmal, Sarfraz Ahmed (wk), Mohammad Rizwan, Imad Wasim, Mohammad Nawaz, Mohammad Amir, Wahab Riaz, Hasan Ali, Rahat Ali, Mohammad Irfan
» Read moreOne civilian was killed as Pakistani Army indulged in heavy cross border firing targeting Indian positions and civilian areas along the Line of Control (LoC) in Poonch sector of Jammu and Kashmir, prompting the Indian side to retaliate. “Pakistani troops targeted the Indian Army posts and civilian areas along the LoC in Poonch sector with small arms, automatic and mortars […]
» Read moreV K Sasikala, who was appointed to the top post in the AIADMK on Thursday, will formally take charge as the party’s general secretary tomorrow, the party has said today. The AIADMK headquarters at Royapettah is being spruced up for the occasion with a dais being set up near the MGR statue to facilitate Sasikala to pay tributes to the […]
» Read moreIndia’s international counter-terror campaign suffered a setback on Friday with China blocking a UN attempt to blacklist major Pakistan-based terror mastermind Masood Azhar. China’s block stopped the counter terror committee of the UN Security Council from blacklisting Azhar, leader of Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) group even as India issued a strong note of protest and called China’s block as “surprising”. India’s latest […]
» Read moreThe ruling Samajwadi Party was on Friday on the precipice of a split with party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav expelling his son and Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav and general secretary Ramgopal Yadav for six years after they put up candidates against the official nominees and summoned a party meet on Sunday. The expulsion was dubbed by a defiant Ramgopal, Mulayam’s […]
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