Mumbai's Aditya Mehta, the lone Indian on the world professional circuit, lived up to his reputation, defeating former champion Alok Kumar of Punjab 6-2, to clinch the title in the 78th National snooker championship in Chennai on Tuesday. Mehta won the best-of-11 frames final 66-6, 6-63, 72-65, 67-41, 67-10, 74-58, 43-52, 82-5 in three hours.
A Judicial member of the appellate tribunal NCLAT has recused himself from hearing a petition filed by tech giant Google, appealing against Rs 936.44 crore penalty imposed by competition watchdog CCI for abusing its dominant position with respect to Play Store policies. On Monday, NCLAT bench Justice Rakesh Kumar and Alok Srivastava ordered Google's appeal to be listed before another bench of which Justice Rakesh Kumar is not a party. It has asked the registry of the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) to place it before the chairman of the appellate tribunal for this.
The sleuths have seized defence-related classified documents and sketches of vital installations from them.
In an obvious bid to leave everyone guessing on her political heir, Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) president and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati appointed a second national vice-president of the party, late Tuesday night.
The meeting came a day after the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teertha Kshetra, set up recently to oversee the construction of a Ram temple in Ayodhya, met for the first time on Wednesday.
The postmortem report of the slain children has revealed that the assailant stabbed the elder brother 13 times and his sibling 11 times, officials said, adding injury marks have been found on the neck, chest and other parts of bodies of the two children.
National champions Alok Kumar (snooker) and Pankaj Advani (billiards) comfortably survived the first day in the Reliance Industries Indian Cue Masters League.
The identities of the arrested militants were not revealed by police immediately and they did not rule out the possibility of more arrests.
Security at the Akshardham temple in New Delhi was beefed up on Friday after the police received intelligence inputs that Kashmiri militants planned to blow it up. Following the input, the police have deployed more personnel at the temple on the banks of Yamuna in east Delhi, visited by thousands of people every day.
Veteran Alok Kumar and national snooker champion Manan Chandra were included among the probables for the 8-ball and 9-ball pool events at the Doha Asian Games in December.
Merchant showed the door to Alok Kumar 4-2 in a well-fought quarter-final clash.
Advani, who at 19 became the youngest world champion in 2003, will lead the Indian challenge at the World Snooker Grand Prix, beginning at Pontin's, England, on Wednesday.
The collegium, also comprising Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Sanjiv Khanna, met on Thursday and its decision was uploaded on the apex court website.
Many eyebrows were raised in Bihar on Monday as news broke of a meeting between Communist Party of India's rising star Kanhaiya Kumar and Ashok Choudhary, a minister and key aide of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar.
About 2 kg RDX, timers and Rs 4.5 lakh cash were recovered from them.
The Uttarakhand high court on Monday stayed the Chardham Yatra reversing a cabinet decision to open it partially for residents of three districts from July 1.
Police teams have also been sent to Jammu and Kashmir.
Action will be taken against such MLAs, he said.
Police was interrogating him to find out if he has any links with the serial blasts in Srinagar and Mumbai and to find which terrorist outfit he belonged to, he said.
The police investigating into the Mangaluru blast case on Monday picked up a person from Bengaluru who was allegedly in touch with the blast accused Shariq while another was detained in Nilgiris in neighbouring Tamil Nadu and brought to Karnataka.
It dropped sitting MP from Guna, Krishnapal Singh Yadav, to field Union Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia from the seat.
The Bharatiya Janata Party's first list of 24 candidates for Lok Sabha from Madhya Pradesh featured former chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan and Union minister Jyotiraditya Scindia, while Bhopal MP Pragya Singh Thakur was replaced by another candidate.
The Shri Ram Janmbhoomi Teerth Kshetra trust is conducting a mass contact and contribution campaign for the construction of the grand temple in Ayodhya which began on January 15 and will go on till February 27.
The cyclone is expected to make landfall on Thursday evening as a 'very severe cyclonic storm' with maximum wind speed reaching up to 150 kilometres per hour, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said.
The Congress on Tuesday suffered a major upset in Himachal Pradesh at the hands of the Bharatiya Janata Party in the Rajya Sabha elections which were marred by cross-voting in all the three states though it won three seats in Karnataka while the saffron party pocketed an extra seat in Uttar Pradesh.
She alleged that Khan molested her and killed her newborn baby. He also threatened her to keep mum or face dire consequences.
BJP heavyweights Smriti Irani, Arjun Munda, Ajay Mishra Teni and Kailash Chaudhary were among the 13 Union ministers who tasted defeat in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, as stunning losses in three Hindi heartland states forced the BJP to rely on allies to form the government.
Geet Sethi, Devendra Joshi, Ashok Shandilya and Pankaj Advani stormed into the last four to create history.
Six of the seven members of the Indian team made it to the knock out stage of the time format event at the World Billiard championship.
The former beat Geet Sethi while Joshi accounted for Alok Kumar in the quarter-finals of the World Billiards Championship.
Both won their semi-final matches in the selection tournament.
Yasin Merchant will take on Alok Kumar in the other semi-final tomorrow to decide the second participant for the championship.
The JD-U has insisted that Chief Minister Nitish Kumar is the leader of the alliance and it has been the "senior partner" in the state, indicating that it should get a major share.
Sarang Shroff and Rishabh Thukral respectively accounted for their scalps in the NSCI snooker tournament.
Pankaj Advani lost his opening outing to defending champion Peter Gilchrist but later recovered and scored two straight victories in World Billiards Championship, in Leeds, on Tuesday.
A stretch about 50 metres long on the Rishikesh-Badrinath National Highway near Pursari village is showing signs of land subsidence with cracks appearing on it.
Advani, Yasin Merchant, Alok Kumar and two other cueists will make up the Indian team for the snooker series against Pakistan.
Former national champion Alok Kumar also stayed on course for a place in the knock-out round atthe World Snooker championships.
Yasin Merchant, Pankaj Advani and Alok Kumar posted easy victories on day 3 of the World snooker championship.
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