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Mexico City: A Mexican airline has launched a promotion that offers Central American migrants $1 fares, including taxes, to return home. The programme, called “Reuniting Families”, is for those who “want to voluntarily return to their country of origin”, the airline said on Thursday. Till June 30, Central Americans looking to return can show up […]

New Delhi: The Board of Control for Cricket in India’s (BCCI) Ethics Officer D.K. Jain questioning the role of former players like Sachin Tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly and V.V.S. Laxman’s as commentators in the ongoing World Cup while they are already a part of Indian Premier League (IPL) franchises, has put the Indian board and the […]

Southampton: Indian skipper Virat Kohli is undoubtedly one of the modern day greats when it comes to the game of cricket. He has smashed almost every record and has led the national team to many historic victories under his leadership. And in the ongoing World Cup as well, Kohli is leading from the front and […]

New Delhi: After skipper Sarfaraz Ahmed, pacer Hasan Ali was the one who faced bulk of the criticism after Pakistan’s embarrassing defeat to arch-rival India in their World Cup encounter on June 16. In that match at the Old Trafford which Pakistan lost by 89 runs (D/L method), Hasan conceded 84 runs in just nine […]

Washington: The US has advised its citizens not to travel to India or to leave as soon as it is safe to do so as access to all types of…

Bhubaneswar: The Council of Higher Secondary Education (CHSE) in Odisha declared the results of 2019 Annual Plus II Arts, Commerce and Vocational courses today. While the total pass percentage in Arts stream is 65.89 %, commerce this year registered a pass percentage of 70.26%. A total of 2,31,150 students had appeared the annual exam in […]

New Delhi: The death of more than 130 children in Bihar’s Muzaffarpur district due to encephalitis figured in the Rajya Sabha Friday, with opposition parties demanding that the government make an urgent intervention and pay compensation to families. The issue first figured when Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu was reading out obituary references on death of […]

New Delhi: India skipper Virat Kohli will have the chance to add another feather to his cap by becoming the fastest batsman to score 20,000 international runs when he takes strike against Afghanistan in their World Cup tie at the Rose Bowl in Southampton on Saturday. Kohli currently has 19, 896 runs to his name […]

Panaji: Desperately angling for a ministerial berth, Deputy Speaker and BJP MLA Michael Lobo on Friday urged Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant to appoint him as “Minister for Garbage” in order to resolve the coastal state’s garbage disposal woes. Speaking to reporters here, Lobo, who earlier this week was promised a “bigger role” in the […]

New York: If you want to cut down on added sugar, add vanilla to milk beverages as researchers have found that this flavour in sweetened milk tricks the brain into thinking that the beverage is sweeter. With the addition of vanilla, the added sugar content in flavoured milk could potentially be reduced by 20 to […]

Tokyo: After more than a century of adapting to international conventions, Japan now wants the rest of the world to call its people by using their surnames first, in accordance with the country’s linguistic tradition. Foreign Minister Taro Kono, addressing a recent press conference on Friday, urged international organisations to implement this change, along with […]

New Delhi: The government has evolved a new scheme to provide social security pension of Rs 3,000 per month to farmers above the age of 60 years, the Rajya Sabha was informed Friday. Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar said the government has approved a pension scheme for all small and marginal farmers (SMF), subject to […]

Film: “Kabir Singh”; Writer-director: Sandeep Reddy Vanga; Cast: Shahid Kapoor, Kiara Advani, Suresh Oberoi, Arjan Bajwa and Kamini Kaushal; Rating:**** (4 stars) Remakes, more often than not, disappoint. This one doesn’t. “Kabir Singh” doesn’t quite better its precursor, the astonishing game-changing Telugu film “Arjun Reddy”. And really, Shahid Kapoor is no patch on Vijay Deverakonda, […]

Team India has three wins in the bag including a no result and are clear favourites right now in the ongoing World Cup in England. After registering a thumping win against arch-rivals Pakistan, they will be looking to come out with yet another commanding performance when they take on Afghanistan at the Rose Bowl this […]

Agartala: Tripura government has decided to hand over 20 state-run schools including 13 closed institutions to ISKCON to run them, Education Minister Ratan Lal Nath said Friday. The 13 schools are closed as they don’t have any student. In 147 other government schools there are a maximum of only 10 students, he said. “The council […]