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Indian Railways will complete hundred percent electrification of its entire Broad Gauge (BG) routes by the end of this calendar year (2023). Out of a total of 65,269 BG Route Kilo Metres (RKMs) across the country, 58,812 RKMs, equivalent to 90.06 per cent RKMs have been completed as on March 31, 2023. Remaining 6,457 BG RKMs will be completed by December 31, 2023. Work of electrification is going on with full force. Allocation of Rs. 8,070 crore has been provided in the union budget 2023-24 in the Ministry of Railways for completion of electrification, in any case, by March 31, 2024.

New Delhi: Olympic medalist PV Sindhu and HS Prannoy will lead the 19-member strong Indian squad at the Asian Games.

New Delhi: Parul Chaudhary and Avinash Sable created new national records at the Sound Running Track Festival held in Los Angeles late on Saturday night in the women’s and men’s 5000-metre runs, respectively.

New Delhi: The Delhi Capitals have kept their hopes alive in the Indian Premier League (IPL) with a dominating seven-wicket victory over Royal Challengers Bangalore at the Arun Jaitley Stadium, Delhi on Saturday.

New Delhi: Akash Sangwan (67kg) Nishant Dev (71kg) Naveen (92 kg) recorded facile wins and moved to the pre-quarterfinals of the IBA World Boxing Championships in Tashkent, Uzbekistan on Saturday.

The last time Karnataka went to the polls in 2018, the keenly-fought election had given a fractured mandate, with BJP winning 104 seats in a 224-member Assembly. However, the BJP could not get the magic number of 113 and remained out of power despite all the manoeuvring it claimed it did not indulge in. But that was only a strategy that would unfold a year later. In the 2019 general elections, the BJP won 25 out of 28 parliamentary seats. Within days, the Congress-JD(S) government began to feel the tremors, and soon, 17 legislators from the two parties resigned. The much-publicized drama put the BJP in power.

Rise in unemployment rate in India again in April 2023 should serve as a wake-up call for PM Narendra Modi led ruling establishment, since it shows the upward trend since the beginning of 2023, a year when both the domestic and global economies have been projected to decline to a new low.

BHOPAL: All attempts of national and Madhya Pradesh leaders to persuade Deepak Joshi not to leave BJP failed. He finally joined the Congress on Saturday in the presence of PCC president Kamal Nath. He accepted the Congress membership along with large number of his followers.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Will the controversial film, “The Kerala Story”, further the propaganda of the Sangh Parivar? That is the million dollar question resonating in the political corridors of Kerala.

The toughest foreign minister in the hemisphere, India’s EAM S. Jaishankar cannot suffer fellow foreign ministers who pour scorn on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, call him names and think they can make a clean getaway! And, if the erring foreign minister happens to be Pakistan’s, woe betide that gentleman or lady like Pakistan Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari will testify in any court in Pakistan.