BOXAM Elite 2026: Hitesh, Sachin, and Lovlina headline India’s strong 33-member squad
New Delhi, Feb 1 (IANS) World Boxing Cup Finals champions Hitesh Gulia and Sachin Siwach, along with Olympic medallist Lovlina Borgohain, will lead a strong 33-member Indian men’s and women’s squads at the BOXAM Elite International 2026, to be held in La Nucia, Alicante, Spain. The tournament marks India’s first major overseas boxing assignment of […]
Thailand Masters: Devika Sihag wins maiden Super 300 title after Goh Jin Wei retires
Bangkok, Feb 1 (IANS): Young Indian badminton player Devika Sihag has etched her name in the history books as she won the women’s singles crown at the Thailand Masters Super 300 tournament on Sunday. Devika has become only the third Indian shuttler, after stalwarts PV Sindhu and Saina Nehwal, to win a women’s singles title […]
National Shooting Trials: Punjab clean sweep junior men’s Skeet T2 trials
New Delhi, Feb 1 (IANS) Punjab shooters made a clean sweep of the podium in the final of the Junior Men’s Skeet T2 with Harviraj Singh, Harazeez Singh Atwal and Gurfateh Singh Sandhu taking the top three spots respectively in the Shotgun National Selection Trials 1&2 which is being held at the Dr. Karni Singh […]
Aus Open: Alcaraz ends Djokovic’s perfect finals record to win first Australian Open title in Melbourne
Melbourne, Feb 1 (IANS) Spaniard Carlos Alcaraz made tennis history on Sunday, winning his maiden Australian Open men’s singles title and in the process, becoming the youngest professional tennis player to achieve a career Grand Slam. Carlos Alcaraz achieved a Melbourne milestone, overcoming a shaky start to defeat Novak Djokovic 2-6, 6-2, 6-3, 7-5 and […]
59th Fit India Sundays on Cycle unites the nation from Delhi to Guwahati
New Delhi, Feb 1 (IANS) From bustling city roads to college campuses and community grounds, India once again took to the pedals on Sunday as the 59th edition of Fit India Sundays on Cycle rolled out across the country, turning an ordinary weekend morning into a celebration of fitness, sustainability, and collective spirit. What began […]
NASA’s Perseverance Rover completesNASA on Mars
New Delhi, Feb 1 (IANS) The six-wheeled Perseverance rover has completed the first drives on Mars that were planned by artificial intelligence (AI), NASA said. Conducted on December 8 and 10, 2025, the demonstration used generative AI to create waypoints for Perseverance. The complex decision-making task is typically performed manually by the mission’s human rover […]
Budget 2026: Sitharaman proposes 5 medical hubs, 3 new All India Institute for Ayurveda
New Delhi, Feb 1 (IANS) In a significant boost to the healthcare sector, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Sunday proposed the creation of five regional medical hubs to boost medical value tourism in the country. “To promote India as a medical tourism hub, I propose a scheme to support states to set up five […]
Budget 2026-27 rolls out tax holiday for foreign firms offering global cloud services
New Delhi, Feb 1 (IANS) Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Sunday announced a tax holiday till 2047 to any foreign company that provides cloud services to customers globally by using data centre services from India as part of the proposals in the Union Budget 2026-27 presented in the Parliament on Sunday. The move is aimed […]
Tata Motors posts January sales at 71,066 units, up by 47.1 pc
Mumbai, Feb 1 (IANS) Indian automobile manufacturer Tata Motors Passenger Vehicles Ltd. on Sunday said that its sales in the domestic and international market, including that of electric vehicles (EV), stood at 71,066 units in January 2026, marking a 47.1 per cent rise year-on-year. The total sales, including EVs, were 48,316 units in January 2025. […]
Budget 2026 to boost education and employment creation, says Dharmendra Pradhan
New Delhi, Feb 1 (IANS) Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Sunday hailed the Union Budget 2026-27 as Viksit Bharat Budget and said that it will boost education and employment creation. The Budget was presented by Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in the Parliament. “ViksitBharatBudget includes all. It gives a boost to education and employment […]
