Air India ‘blacklists’ Shiv Sena MP for assaulting staffer

Mumbai, March 24 : Air India on Friday blacklisted “unruly” Shiv Sena MP Ravindra Gaikwad who admitted to assaulting an airline staffer “25 times” with his shoes and attempted to throw him out of the aircraft on Thursday. An Air India official said that the order “blacklisting him with immediate effect” has been issued, but […]

FIBA World Cup 2019 logo unveiled

SHANGHAI : The official logo of the FIBA Basketball World Cup 2019 was unveiled at an official ceremony in Shanghai, China on Tuesday. The logo draws its inspiration from the Beijing Opera, one of the most symbolic cultural icons of China. It showcases the legends of the strongest with the colourful facial make-up of the […]

No problem with Sidhu’s TV show if it’s permissible: Punjab CM

NEW DELHI : Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Wednesday said his party had no problem with Navjot Singh Sidhu working in a TV show if it is constitutionally permissible. Asked about Sidhu’s comment that he will keep on working in TV show ‘The Kapil Sharma Show’, Singh, who was in the national capital […]

India beat Cambodia 3-2

Phnom Penh : The Indian men’s football team broke a 12-year-old jinx of not winning a match away from home as they beat lower-ranked Cambodia 3-2 in an international friendly here today. Playing their first international friendly this year, world No. 132 India were given a tough fight by the Cambodians, who are 41 places […]

State prunes security of 46 leaders, aides

Chandigarh : The Punjab Police have started pruning the security cover of VVIPs beginning with MPs and MLAs and their special officers even as a report by the committee formed for the purpose is to be submitted on March 24. In the first list of downsizing of security, the state police withdrew security men from […]