Lahore: Three-time former prime minister Nawaz Sharif is set to be re-elected as the President of the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) party here Tuesday, six years after losing the post following a Supreme Court ruling in the Panama Papers case. The Dawn newspaper reported that the General Council meeting is set to take place at a...

New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal Tuesday sought urgent listing in the Supreme Court of his plea seeking extension of his interim bail by seven days for undergoing certain medical tests. A vacation bench comprising Justices JK Maheshwari and KV Viswanathan took note of the submissions of senior advocate Abhishek Singhvi, appearing for the chief minister,...

Hyderabad: Rich tributes were paid to former Andhra Pradesh chief minister and Telugu Desam Party (TDP) founder N. T. Rama Rao by his family members on his 101st birth anniversary Tuesday. NTR’s son and Tollywood actor Nandamuri Balakrishna, daughter Daggubati Purandeswari, and grandson and popular actor Jr NTR paid floral tributes at NTR Ghat on the banks...

Melbourne: Cricket Australia Tuesday announced the match days and venues of India A touring Australia this summer. Two four-day matches between Australia A and India A and a three-day internal match comprising players from the Indian Test squad and India A will precede the Border-Gavaskar Trophy series as the top-ranked Test nations prepare for their hugely anticipated...

Mumbai: Six persons suffered burn injuries after a fire broke out at an industrial compound in Dharavi slum area of Mumbai Tuesday, civic officials said. The injured persons were rushed to the nearby civic-run Sion hospital, they said. The fire erupted in two structures of three and four storeys at the Ashok Mill Compound at Kala Qila...

Bhubaneswar: A joint report of the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) and Odisha Election Watch has revealed that 348 candidates out of the 1283 candidates who are contesting the ongoing Assembly election in Odisha face criminal cases. The report reveals that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), among all the major political parties in the state, has fielded...

Aizawl: Five people died and several others were missing as a stone quarry collapsed in Mizoram's Aizawl district amid incessant rains Tuesday morning, police said. The incident happened around 6am in an area between Melthum and Hlimen on the southern outskirts of the Aizawl town, they said. Five bodies have been recovered, while several others are still...

Ahmedabad: The Gujarat police have arrested one more partner of the Rajkot-based TRP game zone where a devastating fire last week killed 27 persons, an official said Tuesday. Dhaval Thakkar, the proprietor of Dhaval Corporation, which ran the TRP game zone along with five partners of Raceway Enterprises, was arrested from Abu Road in neighbouring Rajasthan, Banaskantha...

New Delhi: A bomb threat received on a Varanasi-bound IndiGo flight at the Indira Gandhi International Airport here Tuesday morning turned out to be a hoax, police said. The bomb scare prompted authorities to evacuate all the staff and 176 passengers onboard and launch a search operation, officials said. "At around 5am, information was received regarding a...

Riyadh: Cristiano Ronaldo finished the Saudi Pro League by setting the season goal-scoring record Monday. Ronaldo scored twice in Riyadh as Al-Nassr defeated Al-Ittihad 4-2 and lifted his league tally to 35, one more than the record in 2019 by Abderrazak Hamdallah. In the final seconds of the first half, Ronaldo, who had already had two goals...