Mumbai: Despite police denying permission, thousands of young men and women gathered Friday for the Cockroach Janta Party's (CJP) protest at Shivaji Park here demanding the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar. While police and security forces were deployed in the central Mumbai area in large numbers and entry routes from the nearby Dadar railway station...

New Delhi: The government has proposed decriminalising regulatory breaches such as violations of petroleum licence terms and introducing a civil-penalty regime, while retaining or strengthening criminal penalties for serious offences involving public safety, critical infrastructure and unauthorised petroleum operations. The Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas has sought public and industry comments on draft amendments to the...

Kakamigahara: India ended a 44-year wait for the Asian Games women's hockey gold and qualified for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics with a performance built on one stunning strike and an extraordinary rearguard action, upstaging defending champions and Olympic silver-medallists China 1-0 in the final in Japan’s Kakamigahara Friday. Lalremsiami's superb reverse-stick strike in the 10th minute...

Mumbai: White-collar hiring grew marginally by 2 per cent year-on-year in September, mainly driven by record growth in AI/ML roles, followed by the auto sector, a report said Friday. White-collar hiring remained largely steady in September, growing 2 per cent year-on-year, with the Naukri JobSpeak Index reaching 3,053 compared to 3002 in the year-ago month, according to...

Islamabad: The federal government and leaders of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party of jailed former prime minister Imran Khan held talks Friday to defuse political tensions ahead of the opposition party's planned long march to Islamabad. The developments come a week after the party announced that its long march to Islamabad would start October 4, postponing it by...

Amritsar: The Border Security Force (BSF) Friday thwarted a major infiltration attempt across the India-Pakistan border in Punjab by neutralising two Pakistani intruders who tried to sneak into Indian territory in the state's Tarn Taran district, officials said. The incident occurred in the BOP Rajoke area of ​​Tarn Taran early in the day. According to sources, the...

New Delhi: After two consecutive months of buying, foreign portfolio investors (FPIs) turned net sellers in September, pulling out Rs 35,860 crore from Indian equities amid global uncertainties, elevated US interest rates and high crude oil prices. The selling continued into October, with foreign investors pulling out another Rs 9,232 crore from equities October 1, according to...

Nishio (Japan): Indian boxers delivered a sensational hat-trick of gold medals at the Asian Games with Lovlina Borgohain (75kg), Parveen Hooda (65kg) and Ankush Panghal (80kg) coming up with contrasting but stirring performances against more fancied opponents in their respective finals in Japan’s Nishio Friday. Lovlina and Parveen ended a 12-year wait by joining the legendary MC...

New Delhi: In a major embarrassment for India, hockey umpire and technical official Gurinder Singh Sangha, has been sent back from the Asian Games in Japan owing to multiple complaints of alleged sexual misconduct by him during the mega-event. A well-placed Hockey India source told PTI that Sangha allegedly misbehaved with a female hockey official from Malaysia...

Nagoya: Sujeet Kalkal underlined his growing supremacy in the men's 65kg category, clinching the Asian Games gold in Nagoya Friday, while defeating an Olympic champion en route to the title to crown a stunning year of domination. He had already beaten stronger Iranian and Japanese rivals on his way to the final, and there was no doubt...