Top athletes have welcomed the Sports Ministry’s move to suspend the newly elected management of the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI), but they also said the action came late. They said the Centre must have stepped in earlier and taken strong action against the WFI for violating the sports body’s rules, instead of waiting for…
A day after ace wrestler Sakshee Malikkh raised concerns regarding the upcoming junior national competitions, the government has suspended the newly-elected Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) panel for the “hasty” announcement. The Sports ministry’s statement also noted that the newly elected body “appears to be (in) complete control of former office bearers in complete disregard…
A man poured petrol on his sister-in-law and set her on fire over a family grudge in Madhya Pradesh’s Ratlam district. The woman, identified as Nirmala, died of severe burn injuries. The woman’s husband, Prakash, had died by suicide six months ago. Prakash’s elder brother, Suresh, had blamed his sister-in-law for allegedly driving his younger…
At least 12 people were killed and 39 injured in eastern Indonesia on Sunday after an explosion at a Chinese-funded nickel-processing plant, an industrial park official said. The accident took place around 5:30 am (2130 GMT Saturday) at a plant owned by PT Indonesia Tsingshan Stainless Steel in the Morowali Industrial Park located in Central…
Three police constables have been booked for raping an 18-year-old woman for more than a year in Rajasthan’s Alwar district, officials said on Sunday. Superintendent of Police (SP) Anand Sharma told PTI that the woman gave a complaint against the three policemen to him on Saturday evening. She also claimed that the accused threatened to…
A video showing a car performing a dangerous stunt in a market in Greater Noida has gone viral on social media, prompting action from the police. The 11-second clip shows a Maruti Suzuki Swift and a motorbike dangerously circling in the Alpha 2 main market with several people and local vendors standing nearby. Interestingly, the…
A group of six researchers at Visva-Bharati University in West Bengal has discovered a novel bacterial species with plant growth-promoting properties. They named it Pantoea Tagorei in honour of Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore. The discovery was recently published in the Indian Journal of Microbiology. The researchers are Raju Biswas, Arijit Misra, Sandip Ghosh, Abhinaba Chakraborty, and…
The Uttar Pradesh Police Recruitment and Promotion Board (UPPRPB) has released a notification for the recruitment of 60,244 constable posts. Interested and eligible individuals can apply by visiting the official site at uppbpb.gov.in. The application process will begin on December 27, with a deadline set for January 16, and modification will be allowed until January…
Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar on Saturday thanked and praised industrialist Gautam Adani for his financial help for the construction of a new technology centre in Pune’s Baramati. Mr Pawar was addressing a gathering during the inauguration of the robotic lab in the engineering department of Vidya Pratishthan in Baramati. Finolex J Power…
Air India’s A350 wide-body aircraft is scheduled to enter commercial service in January 2024.