• Tuesday, March 11, 2025

Not cricket: India-England test series in table tennis likely this…

Commonwealth Table Tennis Federation (CTTF) is mulling a marquee Test series between fierce rivals India and England this year as part of its measures to promote the racket sport in member countries. The CTTF, led by chairman Vivek Kohli, was not able to organise events in the last three years…

Sri Lanka Catholic Church hails Supreme Court order for ex-president…

The leader of Sri Lanka’s Catholic Church on Friday praised a Supreme Court decision to order the former president and four officials to pay compensation for the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings that killed more than 260 people. The civil case brought by families of the victims charged that lax security…

Canada: Sikh woman in Ontario creates turban-friendly helmet for her…

Sikh woman from Ontario has designed turban-friendly helmets for her kids as they started to ride bikes. Tina Singh started making the helmet as she could not find a single helmet in the market to accommodate the turbans of her three sons, CBC News reported. Tina Singh has designed what she calls…

UK charitable body funds sanitary pad-making plant in Uganda to…

Lives of up to 50,000 Ugandan girls and women were set to witness a significant improvement as the Ugandan Red Cross Society (URCS) joined hands with a charitable foundation from the UK for the purpose of setting up a manufacturing plant for reusable sanitary pads. The upcoming plant in Namakwa…

Riz Ahmed joins Pakistan’s Oscar contender Joyland as executive producer:…

Academy and Emmy award winner Riz Ahmed announced on social media yesterday that he had joined the much-talked-about Pakistani film Joyland as an Executive Producer. His production company Left Handed Films is onboard to executive produce the film which revolves around a patriarchal family craving for a baby boy to continue the…

Leicester disorder: Muslim group ‘concerned’ over release of police images

A Muslim group has expressed “concerns” over the release of images by the police in connection with the investigation into serious disorder in Leicester last autumn. Leicester Police earlier this week released photographs of about 10 individuals asking for public help to identify them as investigators believe they could help…

‘Pagdi’ sturdier than helmets, protects Sikhs from every trouble: Former…

The central government should reconsider a proposal by the Indian Army to purchase helmets for Sikh soldiers, according to former Deputy Chief Minister of Punjab Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa who pointed out that turbans have been protecting Sikhs so far from “every trouble.” “Sikhs posted in the army in England, America,…

India-China trade climbs to $135.98 billion in 2022, trade deficit…

The trade between India and China has touched an all-time high of $135.98 billion in 2022 while New Delhi’s trade deficit with Beijing crossed for the first time a $100 billion mark despite frosty bilateral relations, according to data released by Chinese customs on Friday. The total India-China trade for…

Resetting ties, UK’s Sunak to have private dinner with Scotland’s…

British prime minister Rishi Sunak will travel to Scotland and meet first minister Nicola Sturgeon on Thursday (19) for a private working dinner, as part of efforts to reset the two nations’ strained ties. Sunak makes his first official visit to Scotland since taking office in October at a time…

Cricket Hall of Fame, US, endorses India’s Road Safety World…

In a first since 1981, Cricket Hall of Fame (CHOF) has endorsed the Road Safety World Series, a T20 cricket league played in India by former players to create awareness towards road safety in India and around the globe. In a meeting held virtually among the CHOF board members in…