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Priya Ghanghas and Preeti Pawar (Image credit: X) NEW DELHI: Priya Ghanghas (60kg) produced a stunning comeback to beat home favourite Niamh Mitchell, while Preeti Pawar and Jadumani Singh also reached the semifinals to assure India of at least three bronze medals at the Commonwealth Games boxing competition on Tuesday. However, Parveen Hooda and Kapil Pokhariya bowed out after losing their quarterfinal bouts.Reigning Asian Games champion Priya overcame a slow start to defeat Scotland’s Niamh Mitchell 4-1 in a thrilling quarterfinal. The 20-year-old from Haryana had to battle not only her opponent but also a loud home crowd cheering every…
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Delhi high court questions election commissionNew Delhi: The Delhi High Court has directed the Election Commission of India (ECI) to ensure that election-related duties assigned to schoolteachers do not impose an “unbearable” burden on them, observing that teachers engaged in poll work after spending 6-8 hours in classrooms may undergo considerable stress.A Division Bench of Chief Justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya and Justice Tejas Karia passed the direction while hearing a public interest litigation (PIL) challenging the deployment of government school teachers for the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in the national capital.The Delhi High Court said that…
While teaching students on ‘Celebrity Substitute,’ Tom Holland was caught off guard when the children questioned him about his relationship with Zendaya.Image credit : (Instagram Tom Holland has kept the details of his marriage to Zendaya largely private, but he finds himself no match for a classroom full of curious children. The 30-year-old actor appears in an upcoming episode of the web series ‘Celebrity Substitute,’ where he teaches stunts to young New York City students who waste no time asking him about his personal life. A new clip reveals Holland’s attempt to navigate probing questions about his relationship status while…
These laboratories, where Mexicans have been working, have since been uncovered in Kenya, Mozambique and in South Africa.Since 2023 “we’ve seen…14 Mexican-operated labs in total [being raided]. We saw the one in 2023 [in Mozambique], we saw six more in 2024, we saw two in 2025 and we’ve seen five this year,” Griego said.”This last year when I talk about the five labs, four of the five are in Nigeria,” he added.Intelligence from Africom and the US Drug Enforcement Administration have linked some of the laboratories to Mexico’s two biggest drug cartels: the Sinaloa Cartel and the Jalisco New General…
NEW DELHI: Industrial production grew 7.3% in June, a 22-month high, as against 2.2% a year ago on account of strong expansion in manufacturing, electricity and gas supply in the month, due to low base effect and resilient domestic demand conditions in the face of prolonged crisis in West Asia and erratic monsoon. Sequentially too, industrial production fared better in June as compared with the downwardly revised figure of 5% in May.The index of industrial production (IIP) data released by the statistics ministry Tuesday pegged the first quarter (April-June) IIP growth at 5.8% as against 3.4% a year ago.Among the…
Mumbai: Businessman Raj Kundra has moved Bombay high court to quash and set aside a PMLA court’s January 5 order that took cognisance of Enforcement Directorate’s supplementary prosecution complaint in a cryptocurrency money laundering case and issued summons to him.On Tuesday, before Justice Ashwin Bhobe, Kundra’s advocate argued that neither was a notice issued to his client nor was he heard before cognisance was taken. The judge adjourned the hearing to August 6 after ED’s advocate sought time to take instructions.In 2019, the ED had filed a prosecution complaint against Gainbit.com promoter Amit Bhardwaj, directors of Variable Tech Pvt Ltd…
Cockroach Janata Party founder (CJP) Abhijeet Dipke meets supporters (PTI Photo) NEW DELHI: Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) Tuesday said SC’s interim order permitting govts to continue investigation of FIRs already registered “stands in direct contradiction” of the Centre’s assurances of July 25 that cases would be withdrawn and no protester would be targeted.CJP said it was yet to receive the written agreement to this effect promised by the Centre, even as the deadline for honouring the assurances of July 25 expired Tuesday. “If harassment of students at the hands of police continues, CJP will respond with a massive peaceful protest…
The accused, Vijay Raghav, 42, a resident of NRI Layout, was booked following a complaint BENGALURU: A 26-year-old woman fought back after a fruit seller allegedly harassed her outside her paying guest accommodation in Ramamurthy Nagar in the early hours of Monday, confronting him, recording the incident on her phone, and later helping police arrest him.The accused, Vijay Raghav, 42, a resident of NRI Layout, was booked following a complaint by the private firm employee from Chikkamagaluru.According to police, Raghav spotted the woman outside the PG around 1.30am and stared at her. When she questioned him, he allegedly asked her…
Hyderabad: An inspector in the Jubilee Hills zone was suspended on Tuesday night for alleged sexual harassment, extortion and threatening an information technology (IT) professional, a married woman.On the IT employee’s complaint to director-general of police (DGP) CV Anand, an inquiry was initiated and, based on the inquiry report, Hyderabad police commissioner VC Sajjanar suspended the inspector late on Tuesday.In her complaint, the woman said that in Dec 2021, due to her family problems, she approached the inspector, who was then the station house officer (SHO) of the Ameenpur police station. He solved her problems. Subsequently, he used to message…