Author: TNI Team

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 […]

NEW DELHI: Delhi deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia on Saturday rejected all charges against the Delhi Excise Policy and accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of “playing dirty politics” to promote the liquor mafia. He said that the Delhi Excise Policy will expire on July 31 but officials are not ready to take it forward. […]

NEW DELHI: A fake website cheating innocent people in the guise of offering discounted travel tickets online has been busted by the Intelligence Fusion and Strategic Operations (IFSO) unit of Delhi Police Special Cell with arrest of an accused. Aviral Rawal, 33, a resident of Sector-4 of Dwarka has been arrested for conning many people. IFSO had registered […]

  Last week, Kerala Sahithya Academy announced its annual awards. In the category of autobiography, TJ Joseph’s ‘A Thousand Cuts’ shared the honors with the outspoken writer M Kunjaman — who later declined it as he believes awards are a way of the establishment co-opting dissent.    At the time of the announcements, I was […]

BENGALURU: Riding on captain Rohit Sharma’s half-century and Dinesh Karthik’s blazing cameo, India thrashed West Indies by 68 runs on Friday in the 1st T20I to take a 1-0 lead in the five-match series. After Nicholas Pooran won the toss and asked the visitors to bat first, Rohit and Suryakumar Yadav cracked 44 runs for […]

NEW DELHI: To enable SMEs and MSMEs to expand their operations and boost the local supply chain for a healthy smartphone ecosystem in India, OPPO India today announced the introduction of the Vihaan Project. OPPO India will invest worth ₹47.60 crores through this initiative over the following five years. According to a recent research study, […]