Tianjin, Aug 5 (IANS) China’s Li Yingying confirmed on Wednesday that she had undergone heart surgery and will miss out on the upcoming AVC Women’s Volleyball Continental Championship and Asian Games. “I had to undergo surgery due to cardiac issues. The operation was a success, and I have now been discharged from the hospital to recover at home. Following a comprehensive assessment, I will not take part in the AVC Women’s Volleyball Continental Championship or the Asian Games,” Li said on her so…

London, Aug 5 (IANS) Newly-appointed England red-ball head coach Stephen Fleming has approached former Australian batter Michael Hussey to join his support staff as the team’s batting coach, said a report by 7News Australia on Wednesday.Fleming, who was handed the reins of the Test side recently after the sacking of Brendon McCullum, reached out to Hussey, 51, to gauge his interest in taking up the role. The report also said although no formal contract has been offered yet by the England and Wal…

New Delhi, Aug 5 (IANS) The measures to deepen the cooperative banking ecosystem through the proposed resumption of on-tap licensing for Urban Cooperative Banks and addressing portfolio concentration in rural cooperatives will further strengthen financial inclusion and last-mile credit delivery, CS Setty, Chairman, State Bank of India and Indian Banks’ Association (IBA), said on Wednesday.The RBI’s decision to keep the policy rate unchanged while revising the growth outlook upward, and the i…

New Delhi, Aug 5 (IANS) India has produced notable women physicists but female representation in academic physics remains low, however an increasing number of the country’s women physicists are making globally acclaimed contributions, a new report has said.The report from Physics World highlighted a webinar which celebrated the contributions of female physicists in India, noting that these women physicists play significant roles in firms that drive the country’s R&D growth.The webinar feat…

Paris, Aug 5 (IANS) Six people were injured, two of them seriously, in a shooting in the southeastern French city of Valence on Tuesday night, French media reported Wednesday. The shooting occurred at around 10:30 pm local time (2030 GMT), when a gunman opened fire on a group of people with an assault rifle before fleeing the scene in a vehicle, Franceinfo reported.The six victims, five males and one female aged between 15 and 22, were taken to the hospital. Two of them were in serious condition…

Jaipur, Aug 5 (IANS) Lok Sabha Speaker, Om Birla, on Wednesday held a high-level meeting with Union Minister for Youth Affairs and Sports, Mansukh Mandaviya, at Parliament House to discuss the expansion of sports infrastructure in Kota and the development of world-class facilities for athletes. The meeting also focussed on upgrading healthcare infrastructure at the Employees’ State Insurance (ESI) Hospital in Kota.During the meeting, Birla stressed the need to construct two new athletics tracks …

Kolkata, Aug 5 (IANS) A single-judge bench of the Calcutta High Court on Wednesday put an interim stay on “surplus transfers” of primary teachers and education workers in state-run schools in West Bengal.​ Justice Bivas Pattanayak, while passing the interim order, ruled that although the state government could continue with the internal process on the recently introduced standard operating procedure (SOP) for surplus transfers and also receive applications from teachers, no transfers could…

New Delhi, Aug 5 (IANS) The Cyber Police Station of Dwarka District has busted an inter-state illegal investment fraud call centre operating from Indore, Madhya Pradesh, and arrested six alleged cyber fraudsters involved in duping investors through fake stock market and forex trading schemes. Police said the call centre was being run under the guise of a reputed investment and trading company and was linked to multiple cyber fraud complaints across several states. During the operation, investiga…

Shillong, Aug 5 (IANS) The United Democratic Party (UDP), a key constituent of the Meghalaya Democratic Alliance (MDA) government that includes the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), on Wednesday urged the Centre to revisit several provisions of the proposed Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Amendment Act, 2026 and the accompanying FCRA Amendment Rules, warning that the changes could adversely affect the functioning of educational, healthcare, humanitarian and charitable institutions in the state. UD…

Kolkata, Aug 5 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari on Wednesday made surprise visits to police stations and the fire department headquarters in Kolkata. Adhikari visited Watganj Police Station and Ekbalpur Police Station in the Kolkata Port area before heading to the Kolkata Police headquarters in Lalbazar, where he held discussions with Police Commissioner Ajay Nand.Earlier in the day, Adhikari, who is also the Police Minister, attended a meeting at the Public Works Department be…