- Wednesday, March 12, 2025
HARMANPREET SINGH and Udita Duhan can't wait to enthrall fans with their dazzling stickwork after walking away with the best bids in the men's and women's section at the Hockey India League auctions. While Harmanpreet was bagged by Soorma Hockey Club, representing Punjab and Haryana for a whopping ₹7.8 million…
BILLIONAIRE Gautam Adani's conglomerate deferred a $1.2 billion (£921.49m) bond offering to post US elections due to weak market conditions, sources said. Units of Adani Green Energy Ltd, the conglomerate's clean-energy business, were to offer a 20-year green note on Tuesday but deferred it at the last minute. Sources said…
SINGER Nick Jonas abruptly left the stage after a laser was aimed at him during a Jonas Brothers concert at the O2 Arena in Prague. The incident occurred on Tuesday, when he was performing with his siblings Kevin and Joe as part of their ongoing world tour. Footage shared on…
SHOOTERS involved in the killing of NCP leader and former Maharashtra minister Baba Siddique learnt to handle firearms by watching videos on YouTube at a rented house in Kurla area here, officials said on Wednesday. Baba Siddique (66), a former Congress leader who had joined the Nationalist Congress Party earlier…
IN A thinly veiled message to Pakistan, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Wednesday said cooperation in areas like trade, energy and connectivity is unlikely to flourish if activities across borders are characterised by terrorism, extremism and separatism. In his address at a conclave of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO)…
THE UNITED STATES has called on India to take seriously allegations by Canada of an assassination plot, as tensions escalated between the two countries. "When it comes to the Canadian matter, we have made clear that the allegations are extremely serious and they need to be taken seriously. And we…
NATIONAL Conference leader Omar Abdullah was sworn in as the chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday, the first elected government in the Union territory since 2019 when Article 370 was abrogated. Lt Governor Manoj Sinha administered the oath of office and secrecy to Abdullah, who takes over as…
SEVEN flights, including one bound for the United States, received bomb-threat messages through a social media handle on Tuesday, prompting security agencies to undertake specific counter-terrorist drills at various airports, official sources said. The threats via microblogging platform X came a day after three international flights originating from Mumbai received…
RELIANCE JIO chairman Akash Ambani said on Tuesday said Indian users' data must remain within the country and pitched for "incentives" for those setting up AI and machine learning data centres. While speaking at IMC and ITUWTSA 2024 in New Delhi, Ambani termed AI as a revolutionary tool for the…
THE BANGLADESH Cricket Board (BCB) has suspended men's team head coach Chandika Hathurusingha due to his inappropriate conduct during last year's ODI World Cup in India. Hathurusingha, the former Sri Lanka all-rounder under whom Bangladesh recently endured a forgettable tour of India where they were whitewashed in both the Test…
