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Riding on the back of Boris Johnson’s support, Liz Truss entered into the cosy office of the prime minister of Britain, but this success has not provided her with the vision as to how to govern Britain.

Earlier this month, October 10 to be precise, Janine Small, Pfizer’s president of international developed markets, stunned the world when she admitted to the European Parliament that Pfizer did not know if its Covid-19 vaccine had been tested for the prevention of the transmission of the virus at the time of its rollout. She said there was little time to waste, and Pfizer had to roll out a vaccine at the “speed of science”.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Will Congress presidential hopeful Shashi Tharoor spring a surprise by winning the election for the top party post? That is the question uppermost in the minds of Congress leaders and activists in his home state Kerala.

RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat’s vijayadashami speech exhibited the confidence of the organization and its strong desire to intervene in the contemporary social and cultural churning in India. RSS’s ideological shadow has spread beyond its organizational reach and cadre. Sontosh Yadav, the chief guest at the function on October 5, said, “she was called ‘sanghi’ despite her unawareness of the Sangh”. The Sangh’s new venture is to hold serious cultural dialogue with so called minority communities, especially Muslims and Christians, on the question of what constitutes Indianness and Hindu Rashtra.

The move by the US and western nations to enforce a price cap on Russian crude as part of their sanctions against Moscow to put even a tighter leash on its finances provides another opportunity for India to maximise its benefits through the purchase of discounted Ural crude.

New Delhi: Ace distance runners Avinash Sable and Sanjivani Jadhav, will sperhead the Indian challange in the men and women section of the 17th Vedanta Delhi Half Marathon here on Sunday.

Indian Railways (IR) is downhill the sickness path despite part privatization of earning and profitable blue chip assets like the Container Corporation of India (CONCOR), Indian Railways Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) and remunerative high yielding operational tracks with further depressing signs of growing debt, designed to make it bankrupt and unviable with privatization (corporatization) of several other assets like unutilized surplus land, stations, railways stadiums, Dedicated Freight Corridors (DFCs) yet to be operational, in pipeline. It also remains under invested under the current NDA union government, dependent as it is on private investments, which are not forthcoming as IR is high capital intensive with long gestation period making it least or nil profitable for the private investors. Current RSS Pariwar union government is all out to sell out all national assets including the IR.

Chandigarh: Abhijit Singh Chadha returned the day’s joint best round of 7-under 65 to take the overall lead at 11-under 133 on day two of the Rs 1.5 cr Jeev Milkha Singh Invitational here on Friday.

NEW DELHI: Teenager Vaishnavi Adkart and veteran Vishnu Vardhan chalked out contrasting victories ovdr their fancied rivals to storm into the women and men's semi-finals respectively of the of the Fenesta Open National Tennis Championship here on Friday.

New Delhi: Some of the World's leading long distance runners including Ethiopia’s Muktar Edris two-time 5000m champion, Kenya’s Felix Kipkoech and Ethiopia’s Chala Regasa, the second and third fastest men in the field with personal bests of 58:57 and 59:10 will battle it out top honours at Vedanta Delhi Half Marathon here on Sunday.