November 25, 2021

LUCKNOW:  Prime Minister Narendra Modi will lay the foundation stone for the ambitious Rs 34,000-crore Jewar International Airport project in Greater Noida on Thursday. With UP assembly elections barely a few months away, the state…

Australia on Wednesday said it intends to add far-right extremist group The Base and the entirety of the Lebanese group Hezbollah to its list of outlawed terrorist organisations as national security services grapple with a surge in neo-Nazi…

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday he has taken an experimental nasal vaccine against the coronavirus, three days after he received his booster shot, as Russia faces its worst surge of infections and deaths since the pandemic…

British and French officials traded blame on Wednesday after 27 migrants died when their dinghy deflated as they made a perilous crossing of the English Channel. The accident was the worst disaster on record involving migrants in the…

World number one Novak Djokovic says Serbia will use the bitter memory of their Davis Cup Finals defeat in 2019 as motivation to lift the trophy for a second time this year. At the inaugural Davis Cup Finals in Madrid two years ago,…

The parade of European powers advancing to the Champions League knockout stage Wednesday was disrupted by Sporting Lisbon completing a stunning turnaround to join them. Manchester City and Real Madrid are back in the round of 16 after…

Veteran Pakistan batsmen Muhammad Hafeez and Shoaib Malik will skip next month’s T20 home series against the West Indies, a Cricket Board (PCB) source said. Hafeez and Malik have both informed the Pakistan team captain Babar Azam and…

India are the clear underdogs in their four-nation women’s tournament opening match against mighty Brazil but head coach Thomas Dennerby on Wednesday said his side will fight “till the last whistle”. India play world number seven Brazil…

Jammu, Nov 24 (UNI) Union Minister of Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari on Wednesday laid the foundation of 25 National Highway projects worth Rs 11,721 Cr at the Sports Stadium in Doda district of Jammu and Kashmir. Notably, the…

The Income Tax Department on Wednesday said it has issued refunds of over Rs 1.23 lakh crore so far this fiscal year. This includes 75.75 lakh refunds of Assessment Year (AY) 2021-22 amounting to Rs 15,998.31 crore. “CBDT issues…

Signing a pact for the transition from equalisation levy, India and the US on Wednesday agreed for a transitional approach on equalisation levy or digital tax on e-commerce supplies beginning April 1, the Finance Ministry said on Wednesday.…

Turkey’s lira recovered as much as 7% on Wednesday after a historic slide to record lows a day earlier triggered by President Tayyip Erdogan’s defence of rate cuts, but volatility and steep price rises still worried consumers and investors.…

Hamirpur (HP), Nov 25(UNI) AT Skills Hub and X Billion Skills Lab signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Government Polytechnic, Hamirpur to provide 21st-century workplace skills free of cost to the students of the Hamirpur-based…

Kanpur, Nov 24 (UNI) For many in Team India, taking a sweat revenge over New Zealand for their loss in the finals of the ICC World Test Championship could be a dream to live on, but for some of them, it is battle royal to keep intact their…

Bali, Nov 24 (UNI) Indian star badminton players PV Sindhu, Kidambi Srikanth and B Sai Praneeth advanced to second round of the Indonesia Open Super 1000 here on Wednesday. Olympic double medallist Sindhu came from behind 17-21, 21-17,…

New Delhi, Nov 25 (UNI) Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) on Wednesday said that the company board has cleared the plan to implement a Scheme of Arrangement (scheme) to transfer gasification unit into a wholly-owned subsidiary. The board has…

Shillong, Nov 24 (UNI) Former Congress Chief Minister of Meghalaya Mukul Sangma, along with 11 other Congress MLAs, on Wednesday joined the All India Trinamool Congress (AITC). Congress is the principal opposition party in this hill state,…