Author: TNI Team

NEW DELHI: The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) secretary Jay Shah on Tuesday took to Twitter to announce the schedule of Asia Cup 2022. The tournament will begin on August 27 with Sri Lanka taking on Afghanistan. The arch rivals India and Pakistan will lock horns on August 28, which will be […]

NEW DELHI: The Adani group on Monday announced its foray into industrial 5G space after they acquired 400 MHz of the spectrum in the 26GHz millimetre wave band in the 5G airwaves auction. Adani Data Networks Ltd (ADNL), the digital connectivity solutions arm of the Adani Group, secured this spectrum for 20 years in the […]

NEW DELHI: Sanket Mahadev Sargar gave millions of Indians a reason to cheer when he clinched a silver medal – India’s first medal at Commonwealth Games 2022 – in the Men’s 55kg category in Weightlifting on Saturday. Sanket lifted a total of 248kg (113 in snatch + 135 in clean and jerk) but was eclipsed […]

BENGALURU: Dubbed Mirabai 2.O, the latest sensation from Manipur – Bindyarani Devi – hit her strides on Saturday and won the silver medal for India at the Commonwealth Games 2022 in the Women’s 55kg Weightlifting category. The 23-year-old lifted a combined weight of 202kg – 86kg in the snatch round and 116kg in the clean […]

BENGALURU: Jeremy Lalrinnunga on Sunday rewrote history books as he lifted a combined weight of 300kg (140kg in snatch and 160kg in clean & jerk) to grab the second gold medal for India in the ongoing Commonwealth Games. The 19-year-old lifted 136kg in his first snatch attempt and bettered it by pulling off 140kg in […]

BENGALURU: Indian Women on Sunday put up a grandiose show to pummel the arch-rivals Pakistan Women by 8 wickets at Edgbaston in their second match of the Commonwealth Games. The match was reduced to 18 overs a side due to rain. After opting to bat, Pakistan Women lost their opener Iram Javed in the second […]

BENGALURU: The 27-year-old weightlifter Mirabai Chanu on Saturday created a record by lifting a total of 201kg. She lifted 88kg in snatch and 113kg in clean and jerk to bag the first gold for India in the 2022 edition of the Commonwealth Games.  Hailing from East Imphal in Manipur, Chanu was drawn to weightlifting from […]

BENGALURU: On Sunday, India reached the 6th position in the medals tally of the Commonwealth Games 2022 after the 19-year-old weightlifter Jeremy Lalrinnuga clinched the gold as he lifted a total of 300 kg (140 kg+160 kg) in the men’s 67kg weightlifting category. At present, Australia is at the top of the tree with 32 […]

The US Ambassador to Georgia has been trying hard to drag Georgia into the Ukrainian crisis to take the West’s side. This has been under two assumptions: 1. Georgia does not enjoy a good relationship with Russia post 2008 Georgian War; and 2. The EU had promised Georgia candidate status in the Union. One naturally […]

NEW DELHI: 1988-batch Indian Information Service (IIS) officer Satyendra Prakash has been appointed as the new principal director of the Press Information Bureau (PIB), the Central government announced on Sunday. PIB is the government’s nodal agency to disseminate information to the print and electronic media on government policies, programmes, initiatives, and achievements. It functions as […]