- Friday, April 04, 2025
NEW ZEALAND have the capacity to upset Cricket World Cup favourites India in Tuesday's (9) semi-final if they can make an explosive start to the match, according to former captain Daniel Vettori. After making a fast start to the tournament, the Black Caps lost their last three round-robin games and…
A BUS on Monday (8) skidded off an expressway to India's northern city of Agra, and fell into a drain, killing 28 people, after its driver apparently dozed off at the wheel, police said. Indian roads are among the world's deadliest, with 464,910 accidents in 2017 that killed nearly 148,000…
INDIA'S antitrust body on Thursday (4) raided the local unit of French firm Mersen SA and an Indian company over allegations they colluded on prices of equipment supplied to Indian Railways, two sources told. The Competition Commission of India (CCI) conducted raids at Mersen's two offices in Bengaluru in southern…
FORMER skipper Mohammad Azharuddin wants to see all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja included in India's semi-final line-up to add muscle to the team's faltering middle-order batting. Virat Kohli's India have already booked their spot in the final four ahead of their last league game against Sri Lanka on Saturday (6). But the…
Watching Dance: From the unimaginably epic to the ornate and subtle, watching dance has not only provided an insight into a myriad of cultural perspectives with engaging historical and current socio-political contexts but also allowed me to witness the wonder of being completely vulnerable to emotion. Growing Pains: In 2016,…
INDIGENOUS people in an Indian state must be protected from illegal mining and the pollution it causes, the country's top court ruled, providing a historic victory to tribal groups fighting for better rights over land and natural resources. Indigenous people, who own much of the land in northeastern Meghalaya state,…
INDIAN prime minister Narendra Modi's government raised import tariffs on nearly 75 items including gold and automobile parts in its federal budget on Friday (5) and increased taxes on the rich to hold down the fiscal deficit as it tries to revive growth. Aiming to restart investment that's at its…
INDIA on Friday (5) unveiled a budget aimed at boosting infrastructure and foreign investment, the first since the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) led by prime minister Narendra Modi returned for a second term in power. Here are the highlights of finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman's budget for the 2019-20 fiscal year…
HEAVY monsoon rains caused the breach of a small dam in western India, washing away dozens of homes and killing at least 11 people with 13 missings, a government official said on Wednesday (3). Seasonal rains have crippled India's financial centre of Mumbai this week, disrupting rail and air traffic…
A THREE-fold jump since 1975 in the percentage of adults worldwide who are obese has been driven mainly by a shift in diet and lack of exercise, but genes do play a role as well, according to a large-scale study published Thursday (4). For people genetically predisposed to a wider…
