NEW DELHI: India has called for a global system that ensures countries sharing pathogens and biological resources during a health emergency also get timely access to vaccines, diagnostics, medicines and technologies developed from them.The demand was made at the UN High-Level Meeting on Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness and Response in New York, where India stressed that…
D Gukesh and Koneru Humpy (FIDE Photos) NEW DELHI: The decision hour is upon us. The countdown has begun. The winners of both the open and women’s sections of the 46th Chess Olympiad will be decided later today. Do India have a chance to retain their gold medals? Certainly, perhaps more so for the open…
Congress leaders paid homage to former PM Manmohan Singh NEW DELHI: Remembering him as a statesman and a visionary, Congress netas Mallikarjun Kharge, Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi Saturday led the party in paying homage to late Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on his birth anniversary.Congress held a ceremony at the party office where the Gandhis,…
Virat Kohli is once again on the cusp of an ODI milestone that would add another remarkable chapter to his extraordinary career. The former India captain needs just 59 runs in the opening ODI against West Indies in Thiruvananthapuram on Sunday to become only the second batter in men’s ODI history to reach the 15,000-run…
Manipur violence claims another life as gunmen strike Senapati village Two Mao Naga men were shot dead by unidentified gunmen at Kalenjang village in Manipur’s Senapati district Saturday afternoon, with two others wounded, in the latest escalation in a Naga-Kuki conflict that has claimed more than 40 lives since Feb.The shooting took place under Senapati…
NEW DELHI: If not a shooter, Shapath Bharadwaj could have been seen dealing with deadlines, just like his journalist father, S Raju. In a house where books and newspapers were always around, there were expectations that Raju‘s son would follow the same path.Shapath did well in studies too. He was a class topper from childhood…
Vaibhav Sooryavanshi may not yet be a guaranteed name in India’s Playing XI, but at just 15, the teenager has already grown into a phenomenon that extends far beyond Indian cricket.In barely two years, Sooryavanshi has turned himself into a national sensation and, increasingly, a global sporting attraction. Among 15-year-old athletes, only Lamine Yamal can…
ECINET Software To Be AuditedAfter Complaints NEW DELHI: A full meeting of the Election Commission of India on Saturday – the first after reports of alleged internal differences – decided to exempt electors who have got notices for being unmapped to the last SIR or over logical discrepancies, from hearings by electoral registration officer (ERO)…
EC says SIR decisions taken unanimously by full commission NEW DELHI: Election Commission asserted Saturday that the decisions regarding special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls were taken unanimously by chief election commissioner Gyanesh Kumar and election commissioners S S Sandhu and Vivek Joshi.The statement came following the first meeting of the “full” Commission after…
NEW DELHI: With EPFO increasing the mandatory wage ceiling from Rs 15,000 a month to Rs 25,000, employees will now contribute Rs 3,000 (at 12% contribution of Rs 25,000 wage) towards their PF savings from Rs 1,800 earlier, govt said in a set of FAQs released. This will be along with a contribution of Rs…
