British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is facing pressure from the Opposition on Wednesday as one of his close allies and embattled ministers resigned from the Cabinet pending an investigation into allegations of bullying against him.
Daryl Mitchell hit a timely unbeaten fifty to help New Zealand post a decent 152 for four against Pakistan in the first semifinal on a slow SCG pitch here on Wednesday.
In another jolt to the opposition Congress on the second day in a row ahead of the Gujarat Assembly polls, senior MLA Bhagwan Barad on Wednesday resigned as a legislator and primary member and is set to join BJP.
President Xi Jinping has said that China's national security is facing increased instability and ordered the PLA to devote all its energies to enhancing capability and maintaining combat readiness to fight and win wars as he took charge of the military for a record third five-year term.
Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai has reportedly reacted to the charges of corruption on Urban Development Minister as well as Davanagere District In-charge Minister Byrathi Basavaraj.
The National Eligibility cum Entrance Test-Postgraduate (NEET-PG) scheduled for April-May next year could be the last such examination as the admission to PG medical courses thereafter will be based on the results of the National Exit Test to be taken by final-year MBBS students, officials have said.
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, his Punjab counterpart Bhagwant Mann, singer Anmol Gagan Maan and cricketer Harbhajan Singh are among the 20 "star" campaigners of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) for the Gujarat Assembly polls.
A 22-year-old woman employee of an insurance company in Noida died after she was allegedly pushed from the third floor of the office building by her colleague who was also her former boyfriend, police said.
People ran out of their houses in panic at several places in Uttarakhand after a 6.3-magnitude earthquake, with its epicentre in neighbouring Nepal, hit the lower Himalayan region in the early hours of Wednesday.
