Amstelveen: India conceded three second-half goals to suffer a 2-4 defeat to the higher-ranked England in their second pool match of the men's Hockey World Cup here Monday. Nicholas Bandurak put England ahead in the 13th minute but India fought back and took 2-1 lead through goals from captain Harmanpreet Singh (16th) and Dilpreet Singh (24th) in...

New Delhi: Giant-killer Ayush Shetty produced the biggest upset of the BWF World Championships, stunning world No. 1 Shi Yu Qi of China in a thrilling battle to seal a memorable win and storm into the men's singles second round, while PV Sindhu also advanced comfortably in the women's singles here Monday. Shetty, who became India's first...

Bhubaneswar: Deputy Chief Minister and Minister for Women and Child Welfare Pravati Parida Monday called upon newly joined members of the Child Welfare Committee (CWC) to ensure that the “best interest of the child” remains central to every decision and intervention. Parida, who also holds the Women and Child Development portfolio, was speaking at the inauguration of...

London: Two people were killed after a Russian missile strike hit the ArcelorMittal steel plant in Ukraine, partially disrupting operations at the country's largest steelworks owned by Indian billionaire Lakshmi Mittal. ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih, a Public Joint Stock Company (PJSC) located at Kryvyi Rih in central Ukraine, strongly condemned the "insidious enemy attacks" in a statement that...

Tarapith (West Bengal): Eight people died in a fire at a hotel in West Bengal's Birbhum district early Monday, following which police detained one person for alleged lapses in the maintenance of the establishment's fire-fighting system, officials said. Of the 43 people who were in the hotel in the temple town of Tarapith when the fire broke...

Mumbai: Filmmaker Sudhir Mishra has registered a complaint with the cybercrime department after alleging that his social media account was hacked. The filmmaker has registered the complaint with the cyber police at the Oshiwara police station recently. He said in his official complaint that he has been logged out of his X, formerly Twitter account after the...

Washington/Islamabad: US President Donald Trump has termed the Saudi Arabia-Turkiye-Pakistan defence agreement a "big, bold and important first step" towards defending themselves in a "more meaningful way". Signed in Makkah August 7, the pact establishes a framework for collective deterrence and stipulated that an armed attack on any one of the three countries would be considered an...

New Delhi: India should bring back a petrol variant with a lower ethanol blend to protect millions of older vehicles, according to a government adviser, marking one of the strongest calls yet from a senior official for greater consumer choice amid growing concerns over the country's ethanol policy. E20 petrol, containing 20 per cent ethanol, was rolled...

New Delhi: After renewed issues surfaced over some examinations conducted by the National Testing Agency (NTA), Union Education Minister Pralhad Joshi held a high-level review meeting Monday over its functioning and directed it to conduct a comprehensive audit of all examination processes. The agency is required to review every stage of the examination system, identify any shortcomings,...

New Delhi: BJP Monday appointed academic Deepak Mhaskey as its social media department head, replacing Amit Malviya who had been steering the party's social media outreach for 11 years. Malviya congratulated his successor, a chemistry professor from Chhattisgarh, as well as the party's newly appointed office bearers. "Their appointments come at a crucial juncture as the party...