New Delhi: Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award, the highest sporting honour of India, will be renamed Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced today. The renaming recognises the ultimate hockey hero and legend of the sport, Dhyan Chand. The change undercuts and eclipses the name of…
New Delhi: An emotional tweet by PR Sreejesh, the goalkeeper for the men’s hockey team – that yesterday claimed a bronze medal at the Tokyo Olympics, the first in over four decades – is making waves online, with nearly 70,000 likes and 12,000 re-tweets since being posted 12 hours ago. The tweet…
Sourabh Saini, a delivery driver for Indian online supermarket BigBasket, is thrilled by the attention he gets as he zips around Noida, a satellite city on the outskirts of Delhi, in his three-wheeled electric van. “I like how my electric van always gets noticed,” said Saini, who made the switch from fossil…
Washington: About one lakh employment-based Green Cards are at the risk of being wasted in less than two months, causing resentment among Indian IT professionals whose wait for legal permanent residency now runs into decades. A Green Card, known officially as a Permanent Resident Card, is a document issued to…
Vandana Katariya, the brilliant young hockey player, was playing her heart out for India as part of India’s Olympic team while back at home in her village of Roshnabad in Haridwar, her family were being abused with casteist slurs. Vandana belongs to a Dalit community. The upper caste men were blaming the…
Buenos Aires: The Andes Mountain range, which draws skiers to South America, is facing historically low snowfall this year during a decade-long drought that scientists link to global warming. Scant rain and snowfall are leaving many of the majestic mountains between Ecuador and Argentina with patchy snow cover or…
New Delhi:Â Amazon’s challenge against Future Group’s $3.4 billion deal with Reliance Industries will see a Supreme Court ruling today, concluding one of the most bitterly fought battles in the world’s only billion-plus retail market open to foreign competition. Here is your 10-point guide to this…
Kerala Covid-19 Lockdown New Guidelines: From August 5, Thursday, onwards, a new set of lockdown restrictions and relaxations would be in place in Kerala, which is currently contributing 40 per cent to the country’s daily cases. The state is opening up at a time when the test positivity rate…
The US State Department is looking for a $5,800 bottle of whisky that was given to former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo by the Japanese government on June 24, 2019. Now the department has launched an inquiry into the matter. What is this about? A notice released by the Department of State’s Office of the…
Delhi Police Thursday told the Delhi High Court that it has not leaked any information to the media in relation to its probe in the FIR against climate activist Disha Ravi for her alleged involvement in sharing a toolkit backing the ongoing farmers’ protest. The court was hearing Ravi’s plea to restrain…