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Uttarakhand’s Uniform Civil Code passed by the State Assembly in February 2024, mandates the registration of live-in relationships both at their commencement and termination. This requirement applies not only to residents of Uttarakhand but also to individuals residing elsewhere in India. Also read: Uttarakhand adopts Uniform Civil Code The rules, which came into effect on … Read more

Shahid Kapoor and Pooja Hegde in a still from ‘Deva’ | Photo Credit: Zee Studios/YouTube After a long wait, we have a mainstream flick where the hero makes you forget the lapses in the logic of the screenplay as director Rosshan Andrrews mounts his Malayalam blockbuster Mumbai Police for the Hindi heartland, a decade after its release. Among the … Read more

Senior Congress leader Ramesh Chennithala, MLA, has come out against the State government’s decision to recommend to Governor Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar to remit the life sentence of Sherin, the prime convict in the Bhaskara Karanavar murder case. In a letter sent to the Governor, Mr. Chennithala said that Karanavar’s was a cold-blooded murder. “While inside … Read more

An 18-year-old student was killed and another was injured in a collision between two bikes near Harugeri in Belagavi district on Thursday. Amogh Saptasagar of Mugalakhod, who was studying in II PU, died on the spot. The bikes rammed each other near Harugeri Town. The injured youth is admitted to hospital. Published – January 31, … Read more

Sachin Tendulkar is set to receive the Colonel CK Nayudu Lifetime Achievement Award at the BCCI’s annual awards ceremony on February 1. Jasprit Bumrah has been chosen for the Polly Umrigar Award for the best international cricketer for 2023-24 in the men’s category while Smriti Mandhana has been picked for the corresponding women’s trophy. Tendulkar … Read more

A tusker was found dead at Maragunda near Hanabalu in Sakaleshpura forest range on Friday. The pachyderm is aged around 40. It is said the elephant died after suffering injuries in a fight with another tusker. The doctors have noticed marks of injuries on its body. The animal must have died a few days ago. … Read more

Pressure is mounting on the ICC to act amid the announcement of fundraising efforts to support Afghanistan’s exiled women’s cricketers, who played their first match together this week. The Pitch Our Future campaign, led by former Australia cricketer turned commentator Mel Jones, launched on Friday aimed at attracting online donations to support the players’ sporting, … Read more

Carpooling at Cognizant in Siruseri, Chennai on August 29, 2018. IT majors lead the way in carpooling. sRide and Quick Ride among several carpooling apps cater to the corporate sector in India. | Photo Credit: The Hindu The Economic Survey 2024-2025 tabled in the Lok Sabha on Friday (January 31, 2025), stated that carpooling could reduce 380 million litres … Read more

PCB chairman Mohsin Naqvi has announced that the redevelopment of the Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore is “in its final stages”. At a press conference held within the ground itself, Naqvi praised everyone involved in the construction of the stadium, saying it had been completed in record time. “The Gaddafi Stadium will be inaugurated on 7 … Read more

Toss England chose to bowl vs India Jos Buttler finally won a toss in the five-match T20I series and gave England their first shot at chasing a target. The pitch was on the drier side, but the fear of the dew proved to be the deciding factor at the toss. Having lost the first two … Read more

Around 8.30 p.m. on a wintry January evening, Dinesh Mohaniya, 47, a three-time MLA and former vice chairman of the Delhi Jal Board, alights gingerly from a bike in Sangam Vihar’s Gali No. 1. Despite the chill and the rigours of the campaign trail, the politician from the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) does not come … Read more

Gursharan Kaur casting her vote on Thursday.   Ahead of the Assembly poll on February 5, Gursharan Kaur, wife of late former Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh, cast her vote through the mobile postal ballot facility, an election official said. Senior BJP leader Murli Manohar Joshi, 91, who served in the Union Cabinet several times … Read more

The southwest coast of India has witnessed a steady rise in extreme rainfall events, going up at a rate of 0.23 mm per season. | Photo Credit: file photo India’s southwest coast has seen a steady rise in extreme rainfall events, increasing at a rate of 0.23 mm per season, according to a study by … Read more

The village got a road after boycotting the 2022 civic polls, but other problems, including the lack of accessible public transport, schools, and hospitals, have not disappeared, say residents. | Photo Credit: SHIV KUMAR PUSHPAKAR Katewara, a tiny village in Bawana near the Delhi-Haryana border, was at the centre of media attention in December 2022 … Read more

Anganwadi workers at a protest in Delhi demanding better pay. | Photo Credit: file photo “Humein muft ke paise nahi chahiye, apne haq ke paise chahiye (we don’t want charity, we want money that we deserve),” says Sangeeta Mishra, 45, an anganwadi worker in north-east Delhi’s Sonia Vihar, at the end of her eight-hour shift. Ms. … Read more

Congress MP Rahul Gandhi taking a boat ride on the Yamuna river. | Photo Credit: ANI Congress leader Rahul Gandhi intensified his attack on Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday, saying the former Delhi Chief Minister “lies just like [Prime Minister] Narendra Modi but is probably more cunning and sophisticated than the … Read more

Australia’s Usman Khawaja leaves the ground after losing his wicket during day two of the first test cricket match between Sri Lanka and Australia in Galle, Sri Lanka, Thursday, Jan. 30, 2025. | Photo Credit: AP Sri Lanka was staring down the barrel at 44-3 after Australia achieved its largest ever total in Asia — … Read more

Auto Nagar, one of the largest automotive hubs in the country, is akin to an engine running in full throttle. On its main road swarm innumerable people and vehicles, and in its air lingers the odour of diesel and old grease. When, however, one enters the dusty and wide lane of the 4th Cross Road, … Read more

Lancashire have signed Australia allrounder Ashton Turner for the Vitality Blast group stage. Turner will also be available for Lancashire’s two County Championship fixtures at the end of June. Turner, 32, has been capped 28 times in in limited-overs internationals but his most recent appearance for Australia came in 2023. He spent the last three … Read more

A correspondent writes in The Times: The Gersoppa Falls, situated in the Mysore State in South India, are reputed to be the highest falls in the world, the sheer drop of the Rajah, the largest of the four falls, being 829ft. They offer one of the most picturesque views in the whole of the country, … Read more

PSG’s Bradley Barcola, centre right, celebrates with Desire Doue after scoring the opening goal during the Champions League opening phase soccer match between VfB Stuttgart and Paris Saint-Germain in Stuttgart, Germany, Jan. 29, 2025. | Photo Credit: AP Manchester City stayed in the Champions League, barely. Paris Saint-Germain saved its elite status in style. Both … Read more

India’s Srikanth Kidambi. | Photo Credit: PTI India shuttler Kidambi Srikanth moved to the quarter-finals of the men’s singles event in the ongoing Thailand Masters 2025 badminton tournament with a straightforward victory in Pathumwan on Thursday. The former world No. 1 shuttler defeated Hong Kong China’s Jason Gunawan, 41st in the badminton rankings, 21-19, 21-15 … Read more

Australia 5 for 422 (Sutherland 163, Mooney 98*) lead England 170 by 252 runs Australian cricket’s newest hall of fame inductee Christina Matthews said on Thursday that the MCG was overdue to commission a new statue to honour a female cricketer and suggested that pioneering allrounder Betty Wilson should be the player immortalised in bronze. … Read more

The U.S. Open is expanding to 15 days this year, shifting to a Sunday start for the first time in the Open era that began in 1968. Fans who subscribed for ticket information from the USTA were informed of the change for the season’s last Grand Slam tennis tournament — and its new dates of … Read more

Madras, Jan. 30: A heart-valve bank is to be set up in the Railway Hospital at Perambur, the first of its kind in the Indian Railways. Dr. T.J. Cherian, Superintendent of the Hospital, said it was proposed to start the bank with one set of artificial valves made out of plastics and metal. A team … Read more

Rajya Sabha MP Swati Maliwal with residents of Vikaspuri strews garbage outside former Delhi CM and AAP national convener Arvind Kejriwal’s residence during a protest, in New Delhi, Thursday, Jan. 30, 2025. | Photo Credit: PTI Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Rajya Sabha MP Swati Maliwal was detained by the police on Thursday (January 30, 2025) … Read more

The United Naga Council (UNC) and other Naga groups of Manipur on Thursday (January 30, 2025) asserted their opposition to the creation of seven districts by the erstwhile Congress government in 2016. They underlined their opposition to these districts at a tripartite meeting with the representatives of the Union Home Ministry and the Manipur government … Read more

Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi. | Photo Credit: ANI The Mohan Majhi Government has prepared a blueprint to fill 65,000 vacancies in the public sector over the next two years, as the Bharatiya Janata Party moves to fulfill its poll pledge of filling 1.5 lakh vacancies within five years. The General Administration and Public … Read more

Chief Minister Nitish Kumar after paying tributes to Mahatma Gandhi at Gandhi Ghat in Patna on Thursday.  | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar sparked a row on Thursday (January 30, 2025) when he started clapping after paying floral tributes to Mahatma Gandhi on his 77th death anniversary which is also observed … Read more

NFL legend Tom Brady could soon be seen at Edgbaston after Knighthead Capital Management LLC, where the former New England Patriots and Tampa Bay quarterback has a business partnership, picked up a stake in Hundred franchise Birmingham Phoenix. ESPNcricinfo has learned that Knighthead made a winning bid of £82 million on Thursday, the opening day … Read more