New Delhi: India’s vice captain Smriti Mandhana congratulated her teammate and skipper Harmanpreet Kaur after the Punjab Cricket Association (PCA) unveiled a stand in her honour at the Maharaja Yadavindra Singh International Cricket Stadium Thursday. Two new stands were inaugurated at the venue Thursday, with the other one being named after former India all-rounder Yuvraj Singh. The...

Kolkata: The police Saturday detained Satadru Datta, the prime organiser of the Lionel Messi football event at Salt Lake stadium in Kolkata, following widespread chaos at the venue, which prompted the Argentine World Cup-winning captain to leave the field early. Datta was detained for alleged mismanagement of the event from the Kolkata airport where he had gone...

New Delhi: The Congress will step up its campaign over the "vote chori" issue with a rally at the Ramlila Maidan here Sunday and seek to put the government and the Election Commission in the dock for "colluding" to allegedly rig elections. Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and former party chief Rahul Gandhi are expected to address the...

New Delhi: Supreme Court has refused to entertain the bail plea of Mihir Shah, the son of a former Shiv Sena leader, in the 2024 Mumbai BMW hit-and-run case, saying "these boys need to be taught a lesson". A bench of Justices Dipankar Datta and A G Masih took into account that the accused belonged to an...

Jakarta: The death toll from floods and landslides that struck three provinces on Indonesia's Sumatra Island has exceeded 1,000, with 218 people still missing, according to the latest data released Saturday by the National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB). The disasters have caused extensive infrastructure damage. BNPB data listed damage to about 1,200 public facilities, as well as...

Dhaka: A massive fire broke out early Saturday on the ground floor of a 12-storey mixed-use building in a market in Bangladesh's capital city, officials said. However, no casualties were reported in the blaze at Jabal E Nur Tower in the Babu Bazar area of Keraniganj, and fire service officials rescued at least 42 people from the...

New Delhi: Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi Vadra Saturday questioned the Centre's reported move to rename the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), arguing that such an exercise would lead to avoidable expenditure of public resources without delivering any tangible benefit to the people. Her remarks came a day after reports said the Union Cabinet had...

Karachi: The Pakistan Cricket Board is unhappy with the International Cricket Council after the global governing body released a promotional poster of next year's T20 World Cup ticket sales without the country's captain Salman Ali Agha, on it. A reliable source in the PCB said the matter had been taken up with the ICC as the promotional...

Kolkata: Stating that she was shocked and deeply disturbed by the mismanagement at the Lionel Messi event in Kolkata, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, Saturday announced the constitution of a high-level committee to probe the incident. Banerjee said she was on the way to the Salt Lake stadium to attend the event, along with thousands of fans, who...

Washington: US President Donald Trump claimed his administration had dramatically curtailed drug trafficking into the United States, warning that those responsible could face military-style action, including land strikes. “We knocked out 96 per cent of the drugs coming in by water,” Trump said at the White House. “Every one of those boats you see get shot down,...