New Delhi: The Supreme Court Tuesday deferred the hearing on a PIL to September 2, which alleged that the Odisha government was trying to include a junior officer in the list of probable candidates for the DGP post in breach of the apex court's directions in the 2006 Prakash Singh case. A bench comprising Chief Justice Surya...

Jerusalem: The Israeli military said Tuesday that it had killed an Islamic Jihad commander in the Gaza Strip. In a statement, the military identified the commander as Tareq Anwar Khamis Ra'i, a company commander in the group's supply unit. It said he was killed in an airstrike Sunday in the Khan Yunis area of southern Gaza, adding...

New Delhi: Sports Ministry Tuesday decided against bestowing the coveted Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna award on any athlete for the year 2025, while unveiling a significantly pruned list of 17 Arjuna awardees after an unprecedented re-evaluation of the selection panel's recommendations made more than six months ago. Hockey star Hardik Singh was considered for the country's highest...

Mumbai: Market benchmark indices ended lower Tuesday, with the Sensex falling 493 points and the Nifty dropping to 24,154.90 level, as elevated crude oil prices and fading hopes of a diplomatic breakthrough in West Asia weighed heavily on investors' sentiment. The 30-share BSE Sensex was down 492.70 points, or 0.63 per cent, to settle at 77,235.46, registering...

Mumbai: A key annual general meeting of Tata Sons, the holding company of the salt-to-software conglomerate, had to be adjourned Tuesday due to lack of quorum, sources said. The meeting had to be adjourned because Sir Dorabji Tata Trust (SDTT) and Sir Ratan Tata Trust (SRTT), which jointly nominate a representative, could not be present, they said....

Kabul: A hand grenade attack near a school in the Afghan capital Kabul Monday afternoon wounded multiple children, authorities said. Kabul police spokesman Khalid Zadran said late Monday that a number of children had been wounded, and said an investigation was underway. He did not provide further details. Richard Bennett, the United Nations' special rapporteur for Afghanistan,...

New Delhi: TMC Rajya Sabha MP Derek O'Brien Tuesday alleged that around 200 questions raised by him since 2021 in Parliament have been disallowed, with the issues ranging from terrorist attacks and job losses in the IT sector to hate crimes. O'Brien's allegations came a day after senior Congress MPs Manish Tewari and Vivek Tankha claimed that...

Mumbai: Tata Sons' Annual General Meeting (AGM) Tuesday called off due to a lack of quorum for the first time in the holding company's history that an AGM has been deferred, according to a report. A report by NDTV Profit -- citing sources -- said the development was linked to a restriction involving the Sir Ratan Tata...

Islamabad: Pakistan's Supreme Court Tuesday ordered authorities to transfer jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan to Islamabad's Shifa International Hospital for a comprehensive medical examination within the next few days, local media reported. A three-member Supreme Court bench led by Justice Shahid Waheed passed the order while hearing several petitions seeking Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder Imran Khan's...

Gopeshwar/Dehradun: The body of a worker who was trapped after water flooded a tunnel five days ago was found Tuesday, taking death toll from the hydropower project accident to nine. Another worker remains missing, officials said. Twenty-two people were caught in the three-kilometre tunnel, part of the Tehri Hydro Development Corporation's Vishnugad-Pipalkoti hydroelectric project, when a landslide...