New Delhi: NHAI has a monetisation potential of Rs 53,000 to 60,000 crore from the sale of 33 road assets through the toll-operate-transfer and Infrastructure Investment Trust mode that it has lined up for the financial year 2024-25, according to an ICRA report released Thursday. ICRA also expects that the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH)...

New Delhi: About 85 per cent of Indian professionals are optimistic about promotions, career changes and salary hikes in 2024, a new report showed Thursday. According to the online boot camp for digital skills Simplilearn, about 45 per cent of professionals said that they need to upskill to leverage new opportunities in their company or desired field....

Shahjahanpur: Three decades after they raped and impregnated a 12-year-old girl, two brothers were sentenced to 10 years in prison in a case that surfaced after the victim's son enquired about his father. Government counsel Rajiv Awasthi Thursday said, "The court of Additional Sessions Judge Lavi Singh Yadav Wednesday convicted Guddu Hasan and Naki Hasan in the...

Islamabad: A grand opposition alliance is in the making in Pakistan which plans to ‘topple’ the coalition government of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif by holding massive rallies, protest sit-ins and forming a combined joint resistance. The current government, formed after the February 8 elections, has been on thin ice as political instability in the country remains a...

Jamshedpur: Kaamya Karthikeyan, a 16-year-old mountaineer, has become the youngest Indian to climb Mt Everest from Nepal side, the Tata Steel Adventure Foundation (TSAF) said Thursday. An official of the TSAF, which supported her endeavour, said Kaamya was accompanied by her father, Commander S Karthikeyan of the Indian Navy, during the journey to the highest peak on...

Bhubaneswar: In a remarkable turn of events, birdwatchers in Odisha have successfully located a whimbrel, named Merlène, which was satellite-tagged on Réunion Island in the southern Indian Ocean. This discovery is part of an international effort to track and understand the migratory patterns of these extraordinary birds. Merlène’s journey began March 7, when she was equipped with...

Moscow: A deputy chief of the Russian military general staff has been arrested on charges of large-scale bribery, Russian news reports said Thursday, the latest in a series of bribery arrests of high-ranking military officials. The arrest of Lt Gen Vadim Shamarin followed the arrest this week of Maj Gen Ivan Popov, a former top commander in...

Dubai: Iran Thursday prepared to inter its late president at the holiest site for Shiite Muslims in the Islamic Republic, a final sign of respect for a protégé of Iran's supreme leader killed in a helicopter crash earlier this week. President Ebrahim Raisi's burial at the Imam Reza Shrine in Mashhad caps days of processionals through much...

Bhubaneswar: The ruling BJD in Odisha Thursday appointed former minister and Simulia MLA Jyoti Prakash Panigrahi as its Balasore district unit president. Panigrahi's appointment comes after the BJD did not accept his resignation from the primary membership of the party. He was upset after the BJD denied him a party ticket this time to contest from the...

Paradip: A sailor from the Philippines died after falling from a ship crane while cleaning it at the Paradip Port, police said Thursday. The deceased has been identified as Azarcon Earl Wilhelm Curao (26). He was a part of the MV Yukad, which was anchored at Paradip Port to load coal. The sailor was brought ashore by...