An Olympic berth already secured, World championship bronze medallist wrestler Vinesh Phogat says she has unfinished business to attend to in 2020 Tokyo.
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Hitting out at the government over rising fuel prices, CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury today said that despite the benefit of low oil prices internationally since 2014, taxes on petrol and diesel were raised.
Around 350 kg of sea cucumber valued at Rs 70 lakh, meant to be smuggled out of the country, was seized at Pamban near here on Tuesday, Marine police officials said. The officials, acting on a tip-off about smuggling of
sea cucumber, carried out checks near the bus stand here.
After months of lull, old and new telcos have locked horns with Airtel accusing Reliance Jio of “gaming” the system of paying for calls to rival network, a charge that Mukesh Ambani-led firm countered saying incumbents were charging high voice tariffs and manipulating the system to detriment of their users.
A malware has been found active in some of the Indian financial institutions and research centres that can steal information from their systems as well as manipulate it, cyber security firm Kaspersky said on Monday.
Gold bars worth Rs 2 crore have been seized by Customs officials since Sunday in three different cases and five people were arrested at Chennai airport.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson reiterated a call for “flexibility” from the EU in Brexit talks during a meeting with Council President Donald Tusk in New York on Monday that failed to yield a breakthrough. Johnson and Tusk met on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly as Britain races towards its 31 October departure without an exit agreement and the prospect of economic disruption.
Cyclone ‘Hikaa’ has turned into a ‘very severe storm’ while moving westward in the Arabian Sea and is likely to cross the Oman coast on Tuesday night, the MeT department said. It advised fishermen from Gujarat not to venture into the sea as the weather there will remain ‘very rough’ till Wednesday morning.
The news came just hours ahead of a new major UN climate summit, which aims to reinvigorate the faltering Paris accord as mankind is releasing more greenhouse gases than ever into the atmosphere. While many countries will be present at the summit at the head of state level, Russia is only sending a deputy environment minister. Russia’s environment minister Dmitry Kobylkin said that the country now has to set targets for “decreasing anthropogenic emissions and increasing absorption of greenhouse gases” as well as adapt Russia to the changing climate.