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LUCKNOW: BSP chief Mayawati on Sunday affirmed that her party would contest the Lok Sabha 2024 and other assembly elections all alone.Addressing a press conference on her 67th birthday, Mayawati squarely slammed the opposition parties, especially the Congress, of spreading rumours about a “possible tie-up” with the BSP in the run up to national general … Read more
ROURKELA: Julia Reid needs little introduction in the Indian hockey circles. Her surname helps join the dots and tells she is the wife of Indian men’s hockey team’s coach Graham and his biggest support system.When the Reids first landed on Indian soil back in 2019, Julia played a role in helping her husband settle into … Read more
Union Minister of Road Transport and Highways, Nitin Gadkari made a number of key announcements at the 2023 Auto Expo held in Greater Noida on January 12. Reiterating India’s potential to become an exporter of energy, Gadkari focused on India’s Green Hydrogen Mission and the goal of running railways, aircraft and buses on clean fuel. … Read more
NEW DELHI: Already in the grip of a severe cold spell, north India is likely to experience a further drop in temperature next week.According to a weather expert, vast swathes of north India are likely to witness a temperature of -4° Celsius and a maximum of 2° Celsius in the plains.Jammu and Kashmir, which has … Read more
NEW DELHI: Finishing off 2022 with a century and kicking off the World Cup year with a dazzling ton, Virat Kohli has yet again hit the purple patch and is on course of regaining the status of ‘run machine’ which he has been associated with for the majority part of his career. But the 34-year-old … Read more
MORIGAON (ASSAM): A vehicle carrying the mother of Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma met with a minor accident on National Highway 37 in Morigaon district on Tuesday, an official said.However, no injuries were reported in the accident.“Sarma’s mother Mrinalini Devi and brother Diganta Biswa Sarma were travelling from Guwahati to Diphu in Karbi Anglong … Read more
01 / 25 /sports/cricket/pictures-of-suryakumar-yadavs-joyous-celebration-after-scoring-century-at-3rd-t20-against-sri-lanka-take-over-the-internet/eventshow/96847858.cms 01 <p>It seemed like a match between star batter Suryakumar Yadav vs Sri Lanka – Photogallery It seemed like a match between star batter Suryakumar Yadav vs Sri Lanka. The Twenty20 sensation scored an unbeaten 112 off 51 balls to fire India to 228-5 in the third and deciding match against … Read more
NEW DELHI: The Prime Minister’s Office will hold a high-level meeting on the Joshimath crisis on Sunday afternoon amid alarm in the Uttarakhand region due to sinking of land and cracks in houses at several places.P K Mishra, the principal secretary to the prime minister, will hold the review meeting with the cabinet secretary, other … Read more
WASHINGTON: Republican Kevin McCarthy was elected speaker of the US house of Representatives early on Saturday, after making extensive concessions to a group of right-wing hardliners that raised questions about the party’s ability to govern.The 57-year-old Californian suffered one final humiliation when Representative Matt Gaetz withheld his vote on the 14th ballot as midnight approached, … Read more
Bigg Boss 15 fame, Karan Kundrra has appeared on a number of television shows. He had previously appeared in Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai as Ranveer, Sirat’s former flame and first husband. According to reports, the actor owns an international call centre in Jalandhar. His dad is a businessman who works in the field of … Read more
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court is hearing a petition challenging the Uttarakhand high court‘s order to evict 4,365 families from 78 acres of ‘encroached’ railways land in Haldwani.According to local residents claim that the 78-acre area has around 25,000 voters, including several elderly persons and pregnant women, as well as 15,000 children.On December 20, the … Read more
NEW DELHI: The captaincy debate has been resonating through India’s cricket corridors for a while know and has been fueled further since Rohit Sharma’s injury, Hardik Pandya’s success as T20I skipper and KL Rahul’s failure as a batter while standing in as skipper for Rohit. Amid all this, Shreyas Iyer, who has led sides in … Read more
Shark Tank India 2 premiered on Monday (January 2) with interesting pitches from different brands. The five sharks on board including Vineeta Singh, Namita Thapar, Aman Gupta, Anupam Mittal and Peyush Bansal decided to invest in some while rejecting others. However, there was one make-up brand which was rejected by the shark because they considered … Read more
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday upheld the government’s 2016 decision to demonetise the currency notes of Rs 1,000 and Rs 500 denominations.A five-judge constitution bench headed by Justice S.A. Nazeer and comprising Justices B.R. Gavai, A.S. Bopanna, V. Ramasubramanian, and B.V. Nagarathna pronounced the judgment on a clutch of petitions challenging the Centre’s … Read more
People across the country thronged temples to offer prayers on the first day of the New Year. People celebrated the arrival of the New Year with dazzling lights, music and dance Source link
NEW DELHI: Taking a dig at the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Rahul Gandhi on Saturday said that he considers it his guru and the more the saffron party attacks them, the better it is for the Congress to understand its ideology.“I want them (BJP) to attack us aggressively, this will help Congress party understand its … Read more
Dec 30, 2022, 13:14 ISTSource: TOI.in Star Indian cricketer Rishabh Pant met with an accident on Friday morning (December 30) while returning to Delhi from Uttarakhand. His car hit a divider, and it caught fire after the collision. Watch the moment Rishabh Pant escaped his burning car and was saved by the locals. As per … Read more
NEW DELHI: India’s chances of sealing the second spot in the World Test Championship (WTC) table and make it to the final received a boost on Thursday when Australia thrashed South Africa by an innings and 182 to runs in the Boxing Day Test at Melbourne. Australia’s series-clinching win at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, after … Read more
NEW DELHI: Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar on Thursday said Sangh parivaar are dividing India into ‘tukde-tukde’ on the basis of religion.Aiyar while replying to media persons on Opposition raising doubts over Bharat Jodo Yatra’s aim said we have to fight against the attempts to break the country.“It’s the people of ‘Sangh Parivaar’ who’re dividing … Read more
HYDERABAD: Bharat Biotech on Tuesday said that its intranasal Covid-19 vaccine iNCOVACC will be priced at Rs 800 per dose for the private markets and Rs 325 per dose for central and state governments.The company also said iNCOVACC, which has already made its debut on CoWin, will be rolled out in the fourth week of … Read more
Mollywood film director KP Sasi breathed his last on December 25, Sunday. He was 64 years old. KP Sasi was famous for the film ‘Ilayum Mullum’ (Leaves and Thorns) which was released in the year 1994. Hailing from Thrissur, Kerala, KP Sasi started his work as a cartoonist while he was a student at JNU … Read more
NEW DELHI: China’s National Health Commission (NHC) stopped publishing daily Covid-19 data on Sunday, amid doubts about their reliability as infections have exploded in the wake of an abrupt easing of tough restrictions.The NHC’s halt to reporting daily infection and death totals comes as concerns grow around the lack of vital information since Beijing made … Read more
NEW DELHI: Chennai Super Kings (CSK) spent the third highest amount for a single player at the Indian Premier League (IPL) auction on Friday when they bought England’s high-profile all-rounder Ben Stokes for Rs 16.25 crore. And if expert opinion is to be believed, it’s a move to pass on the baton of CSK captaincy … Read more
Holiday flights scrapped as massive winter storm sweeps US Source link
Dec 22, 2022, 12:40PM ISTSource: TOI.in China’s narrow criteria for identifying deaths caused by Covid-19 will underestimate the true toll of the pandemic’s current wave there and could make it harder to communicate the best ways for people to protect themselves, foreign health experts warn. Only deaths caused by pneumonia and respiratory failure after contracting … Read more
The Covid outbreak in China, US and Japan has prompted Centre to ask states to step up vigil. The visuals from China are indeed alarming and tragic. The country messed up its Covid strategy with the zero-Covid approach. But there’s no room for complacency in India. The Omicron variant of the virus may have run … Read more
PARIS: It started with tennis superstar Novak Djokovic deported from Australia and ended with Lionel Messi lifting the World Cup in Qatar. Here’s a look back on the top sports stories of 2022: DJOKOVIC DEPORTEDNovak Djokovic flew to Melbourne in January hoping to capture a 10th Australian Open. However, the famously unvaccinated Serbian had his … Read more
Former India cricket captain and Head Coach Ravi Shastri‘s ‘tracer bullet’ commentary switched loyalties for a one-off occasion from cricket to football on Sunday. Shastri, who was in Qatar for the final, burst into an impromptu commentary stint for a few minutes from the stands. In a video tweeted by Shastri himself, he can be … Read more
As per a recent official GST Council release, it has been recommended that GST rates be reduced to 5 percent or nil for several items. One of the directives that stands out for TOI Auto readers, is regarding the GST tax rates currently levied on SUVs. The current rates vary between 20 to 22 percent … Read more
BEIJING/SHANGHAI: Funeral homes across China’s Covid -hit capital Beijing, a city of 22 million, scrambled on Saturday to keep up with calls for funeral and cremation services as workers and drivers testing positive for the novel coronavirus called in sick. After declaring that the Omicron strain has weakened, and unprecedented public protests against a zero-Covid … Read more