San Diego (US): President Joe Biden has lifted a freeze on green cards issued by his predecessor during the pandemic that lawyers said was blocking most legal immigration to the United States. Former President Donald Trump last spring halted the issuance of green cards until...
Ahmedabad: Left-arm spinner Axar Patel took six wickets and off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin bagged three as India blew away England for 112 runs in their first innings on the opening day of the third Test here Wednesday. Opener Zak Crawley was the top scorer for England...
Ahmedabad: England were struggling at 81 for four at tea as the much-awaited day-night third Test against India started amid much fanfare here Wednesday. At the break, Ben Stokes and Ollie Pope were batting on 6 and 1 respectively. Playing in his 100th Test, veteran...
Ahmedabad: England won an important toss and elected to bat against India in the third Day/Night Pink Ball Test here Wednesday. Local man Jasprit Bumrah replaced Mohammed Siraj in the India playing XI along with off-spinning all-rounder Washington Sundar, who comes back in place of...
New Delhi: The Supreme Court Wednesday dismissed a plea seeking an extra chance to appear in the UPSC civil services exam by aspirants who have exhausted their last attempt last year amid the COVID-19 pandemic. A bench headed by Justices AM Khanwilkar said that it...
New Delhi: Two variants of SARS-CoV-2 – N440K and E484K – have been detected in Maharashtra and Kerala. However, there is no reason to believe that they are responsible for the surge in cases in some districts in these two states, the Centre said Tuesday....
Kolkata: Indian Coast Guards vessels have reached a boat carrying 90 Rohingya refugees and three Bangladesh crewmen which drifted into India's territorial waters a day back. Humanitarian groups monitoring the plight of the stranded Rohingya group on high sea said the Indian Coast Guards have...
Bhubaneswar: With the aim to realise the vision of ‘New Odisha - Empowered Odisha’, Finance Minister Niranjan Pujari presented Monday the annual state budget for 2021-22 with an outlay of Rs 1.70 lakh crore, a rise of 13.33 per cent compared to the previous fiscal....
New Delhi: Amid pressure to check the fuel price rise, oil marketing companies on Monday decided to keep petrol and diesel prices unchanged Monday for the second consecutive day. Accordingly, petrol continues to be priced at Rs 90.58 a litre and diesel Rs 80.97 a...
New Delhi: India and China held extensive deliberations on expanding the disengagement process in eastern Ladakh at the 10th round of the military talks that lasted for around 16 hours, official sources said Sunday. The Corps Commander-level talks at the Moldo border point on the Chinese...
The demonstration by scores of policemen and officers outside the Delhi Police headquarters on 2 November to protest against some...
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More than three years after ethnic violence erupted in Manipur, there is no let-up in the spiral of killings, displacement,...
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The BJP appears to be clueless as to how to handle the people’s fury and the Opposition’s mega rally at...
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By Aakar Patel My thesis is that the Indian state under Hindutva is incompletely communal. I have written about this...
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