News Snippets

  • Experts speculate whether Ding Liren wants the world title match against D Gukesh to go into tie-break after he let off Gukesh easily in the 5th game
  • Tata Memorial Hospital and AIIMS have severely criticized former cricketer and Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu for claiming that his wife fought back cancer with home remedies like haldi, garlic and neem. The hospitals warned the public for not going for such unproven remedies and not delaying treatment as it could prove fatal
  • 3 persons died and scores of policemen wer injured when a survey of a mosque in Sambhal near Bareilly in UP turned violent
  • Bangladesh to review power pacts with Indian companies, including those of the Adani group
  • Foreign funds withdrew Rs 27000cr in November, extending the sell-off
  • IPL auctions: Lucknow Super Giants create history by successfully bidding Rs 27cr for Rishabh Pant, making him the highest paid IPL cricketer till now. In just 28 minutes, Pant breaks the record set by Shreyas Iyer who was sold to Punjab for Rs 26.75cr
  • First Test: India on the brink of victory in the first Test against Australia as the hosts were tottering at 12 for 3, chasing 525 to win the match at the end of the 3rd day's play
  • First Test: Yashashvi Jaiswal scores a magnificent 161 and Virat Kohli roars back into form with a solid century to crush Australian bowling attack
  • Congress gets 1 in Rajasthan, 1 in Punjab and 3 in Karnataka
  • BJP wins 6 out of 9 in UP, 2 out of 4 in Bihar, 5 out of 5 in Assam and 5 out of 7 in Rajasthan bypolls
  • PM Mdoi reiterates the new BJP slogan "Ek Hain to Safe Hain" in his celebratory speech (for winning Maharashtra) to party workers
  • Hemant Soren proves a huge point by winning with two-third majority for the JMM-led INDIA bloc in Jharkhand, NDA manages just 24 seats
  • Congress reduced to just 16 seats in Maharashtra assembly in its worst ever show
  • BJP scores a 88.6% strike rate in Maharashtra and wins 132 out of the 149 seats it contested
  • Shinde Shiv Sena and Ajit Pawar NCP put up a stellar show in Maharashtra, causing concerns for Uddhav Thackeray and Sharad Pawar
Mamata Banerjee calls for UN Peacekeeping Force in Bangladesh, asks PM Modi to explain India's stand in Parliament