The paddler from Chennai has actively been trying to rework her game so that she can win more at the international level. Though she didn’t medal in Birmingham last year, the experience of playing and handling pressure at a major international tournament like the Commonwealth Games will surely help Reeth Rishya Tennison at the upcoming…
Chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday promised “a very big” administrative reshuffle for a responsible, lean, thin, compassionate, accountable, and sympathetic administration and said officers involved in obstructing the people’s work will have to suffer. Referring to the Supreme Court’s verdict earlier in the day that Delhi’s elected government will have the control of bureaucrats…
US President Joe Biden will host Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Washington, DC next month, the White House has announced, in a trip the Biden administration said aims to “affirm the deep and close partnership” between the two countries. In a statement on Wednesday, the White House said Modi will make an official state visit to…
The Democratic Republic of Congo has commenced discussions with neighbouring Uganda for possible use of the East African country’s planned crude oil pipeline to export petroleum, DRC’s hydrocarbons ministry said. Uganda is developing the $3.5bn 1,445km (898-mile) East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) that will start from oil fields in its Albertine rift basin on…
The foreign ministers of Russia, Syria, Turkey and Iran have met in Moscow for high-level talks on rebuilding ties between Ankara and Damascus after years of animosity during Syria’s war. Syria’s Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad was quoted as saying by the Syrian state news agency SANA that “despite all the negatives of the past years, there…
Ten people were killed in a landslide in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo’s Lubero territory in North Kivu province overnight on Wednesday, local authorities have said – additional victims of recent heavy rains that have killed hundreds in floods in the broader region. A recent downpour loosened the earth on a hillside above a village…
So-called earthquake diplomacy is a potential opportunity for Ankara and Athens to mend fences after elections in both countries this month. That seems to be the prevailing theory in the US State Department, after earthquakes in February killed tens of thousands of people in Turkey and left 1.5 million homeless. “It is in everyone’s interest here to work towards…
A nondescript apartment in Istanbul’s business district is the nerve centre of a drive to propel more women into Turkish politics. But with some 60 million voters due to cast their ballots in presidential and parliamentary elections on Sunday, the mood at the office of Ben Secerim, or I Choose, is one of disappointment. The…
The Uttar Pradesh higher education department has made it mandatory for all the staff of the government degree colleges in state to record their attendance through biometric machines with immediate effect. The practice was earlier introduced in state universities in 2022. Joint director higher education, KC Verma in a letter to principals of the government…
Your drinking habit can play havoc with your gut health. An expert on top gut health issues one can face due to excessive alcohol consumption. Excessive consumption ofalcoholhas been linked to a range of short-term and chronic health issues from heart disease, stroke, liver disease to cancer. Alcohol over a period of time can weaken…
