Pakistan cricket team (AP/PTI) Pakistan’s T20 World Cup campaign has reached a critical juncture. A win against Namibia in their final league fixture on Wednesday is non-negotiable if Salman Agha’s men are to keep their Super 8 hopes alive. Anything less, and their tournament ends prematurely.The pressure has mounted quickly. After bold claims that this…
UP Board exams to start from tomorrow The board examination season in Uttar Pradesh begins on February 18, with more than 50 lakh students set to appear for high school and intermediate papers conducted by the Uttar Pradesh Madhyamik Shiksha Parishad.More than 8,000 examination centres have been established across the state to manage what officials…
Union IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw (PTI) NEW DELHI: The Centre spelt out an ambitious vision for artificial intelligence that borrows directly from one of India’s biggest digital success stories – UPI.The idea, officials said, is to offer the world a “bouquet of trusted AI solutions”: A shared, reliable digital backbone that countries and companies can…
MUMBAI: Even as property prices continued to rise at a faster pace – 2.2 % in the Dec quarter, rental demand declined by 2.4% quarter-on-quarter across India, indicating a market adjusting to yield compression rather than a broad-based slowdown, Magicbricks said in a report. Chennai emerged as the top market in terms of gross rental…
Sourav Ganguly and Imran Khan (Agency Image) Former India captain Sourav Ganguly has called for former Pakistan skipper Imran Khan to be treated with dignity and proper care, amid growing concern over the latter’s health in prison.Ganguly’s remarks follow a joint appeal by 14 former international captains from five Test-playing nations urging the Pakistan government…
GPSC invites applications for Class-1 and Class-2 Engineer vacancies under GMB GPSC Recruitment 2026: The Gujarat Public Service Commission (GPSC) has put out a notification for online applications for various Class-1 and Class-2 Engineering vacancies in the Gujarat Maritime Board (GMB). This recruitment exercise, advertised as Nos. 134/2025-26 to 139/2025-26, includes posts for Executive Engineers,…
NEW DELHI: SC on Tuesday criticised 12 ’eminent’ persons who together filed a PIL “targeting” CMs of BJP-governed states for alleged hate speeches while making a plea for framing guidelines to restrain constitutional functionaries and bureaucrats from breaching fidelity to constitutional morality. Appearing for petitioners, senior advocate Kapil Sibal told a bench of Chief Justice…
NEW DELHI: Despite the surge in gold and silver imports upsetting the trade balance, the trends for the two precious metals are very different. With the average price of gold rising nearly 25% on a year-on-year basis to $94,554 a kg during April-Dec, buyers became cautious, resulting in demand falling. Data released by the commerce…
A strike that would have disrupted teaching, grading and research at the University of Pennsylvania was narrowly avoided on Monday night, after administrators and the graduate student union reached a tentative agreement following more than a year of negotiations.According to The Daily Pennsylvanian, representatives from Graduate Employees Together, University of Pennsylvania said the agreement was…
CHENNAI: Over eight years after a trial court acquitted 23 accused of killing a man over an election rivalry in Villupuram in 2013, Madras HC on Tuesday reversed the order and convicted and sentenced 21 of them to life imprisonment.“On a careful re-appreciation of the entire evidence on record, we find that the prosecution proved…
