CRPF introduced a similar amendment in recruitment rules last year NEW DELHI: Former Agniveers will get 50% reservation in posts of constable (general duty) and rifleman in the Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs) and Assam Rifles, the home ministry told Lok Sabha on Tuesday.In reply to a written question, junior home minister Nityanand Rai said…
Nitish Kumar Reddy (PTI Photo) NEW DELHI: India’s ODI and Test captain Shubman Gill expressed concern over his team’s fitness standards after the ODI series defeat in England. A string of players breaking down before or during series has repeatedly left the team hamstrung over the past year. Gill suggested that India might be missing…
Ladakh stepped out. London rallied. Indore mobilised. Dehradun marched. Hyderabad joined. Mumbai dug in. Protesters rallied across geographies Tuesday, drawing students behind activist Sonam Wangchuk’s hunger strike for education reforms.For the first time since Wangchuk began his fast in solidarity with Cockroach Janta Party’s agitation, scores of students marched through Kargil carrying banners reading “Save…
The session was adjourned amid ruckus NEW DELHI: Parliament proceedings were washed out for the second consecutive day Tuesday as opposition members continued with their protests inside Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha over multiple issues, including police lathi-charge on those protesting NEET paper leak and alleged Ram temple donation theft. Both Houses were adjourned for…
Ben Stokes (Image credit: X) NEW DELHI: Just days after retiring from international cricket, Ben Stokes showed he still has plenty left in the tank. Playing his first match as a former England cricketer, Stokes scored an unbeaten 108 to guide Durham to a five-wicket win over Derbyshire in the One-Day Cup at Derby.The century…
Actors Gurfateh Pirzada, Pratibha Ranta, and Akasa Singh joined student protests in Mumbai, sharing solidarity posts on social media. Gurfateh urged people to discuss the movement passionately, comparing it to Dhurandhar 3. Protests, now in their second day, spread from Delhi, with police detaining several demonstrators at Chaityabhoomi, Mumbai. Actors Gurfateh Pirzada, Pratibha Ranta, and…
Supporters gather at CJP’s camping site at Jantar Mantar on Tuesday NEW DELHI: Supreme Court Tuesday expressed reluctance to entertain a PIL seeking its intervention to curb question paper leaks in competitive examinations and to protect students’ interests, saying the scope of the plea was too vast.“What can the court do? How much the court…
‘Lenin’ box office collections day 12: Akhil Akkineni’s film drops 18.1%; earns Rs 86 lakhs Akhil Akkineni‘s ‘Lenin’ continued its theatrical run with another drop in collections during its second week.According to estimates by Sacnilk, the action drama earned Rs 86 lakhs net in India on Day 12. The figure represents an 18.1% decline from…
Vijay’s ‘Jana Nayagan’ registers impressive advance bookings; sells over 6.45 lakh tickets Thalapathy Vijay’s ‘Jana Nayagan’ has opened to a strong response in advance bookings ahead of its theatrical release on July 23. The action drama has generated a great pre-release business across India.According to estimates reported by Sacnilk, the film has collected approximately Rs…
The exercise brought together 254 participants from 26 countries NEW DELHI: A four-day multinational maritime security training engagement, Operation Southern Readiness 26-2, commenced at the Southern Naval Command in Kochi on Monday. Hosted by the Indian Navy’s Southern Naval Command, the engagement is being conducted under the aegis of the Navy-led Combined Task Force 154…