February 4, 2026
  • February 4, 2026

Women like me should fight for justice: Gangrape survivor

by on August 5, 2022 0

A gang rape survivor who filed an FIR against two men, family acquaintances who had assaulted her when she was just 12, an attack that left her pregnant a year later, has appealed to “women like me to come forward and fight for justice”. She said she “needed to say this, even if 28...

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CWG: Sudhir and Sreeshankar win historic medals for India

by on August 5, 2022 0

Sreeshankar clinched the silver medal in the men’s long jump final with a mark of 8.08m, becoming the first Indian male athlete to win a Commonwealth Games medal in long jump. Para-powerlifter Sudhir won India’s first gold in the event at the Commonwealth Games. So far, India has won 20 medals and is at...

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Pelosi says US will ‘not allow’ China to isolate Taiwan

by on August 5, 2022 0

US House speaker Nancy Pelosi said Friday that China will not isolate Taiwan by preventing US officials from travelling there. Pelosi, the first House speaker to visit Taiwan in 25 years, said Wednesday in Taipei that the US commitment to democracy in the self-governing island and elsewhere “remains ironclad”.

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Live: RBI hikes repo rate by 50bps, pegs GDP growth at 7.2%

by on August 5, 2022 0

RBI Monetary Policy LIVE Updates: The Reserve Bank of India has hiked the repo rate by 50 basis points to 5.4 per cent with immediate effect. The RBI Monetary Policy Committee raised the policy repo rate by 90 basis points in May and June. RBI retained its economic growth projection at 7.2 per cent...

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Russian court jails US basketball star Brittney Griner for 9 years

by on August 5, 2022 0

A Russian court on Thursday found US basketball star Brittney Griner guilty of smuggling and storing drugs and sentenced her to nine years in prison. The court “found the defendant guilty” of smuggling and possessing “a significant amount of narcotics”, judge Anna Sotnikova told a court in the town of Khimki just outside Moscow....

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