- Sunday, February 23, 2025
Two Indian-crewed merchant ships carrying Australian coal have been stuck at Chinese ports for several months, union officials said Wednesday, with the sailors becoming the latest casualties of escalating tensions between Canberra and Beijing. Australia-China tensions had been deteriorating in recent years and worsened further when Canberra supported calls for…
Fifteen Asia-Pacific nations are set to sign an enormous free trade deal at an online summit that started Thursday, with the pact seen as a coup for China in extending its influence across the region. Once signed, the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) will be the world's largest trade pact…
India should embrace split-captaincy and put Rohit Sharma in charge of their T20 squad, several former cricketers said after the opener led Mumbai Indians to a fifth Indian Premier League (IPL) title on Tuesday. Virat Kohli leads India across formats, while Rohit usually deputises for him in limited-overs cricket. Rohit…
The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) announced on Tuesday(10) Babar Azam will replace the under-pressure Azhar Ali as Test captain in the two-match series in New Zealand starting next month. Azhar was criticised following Pakistan's three-wicket defeat in England in August this year, losing the three-match series 1-0. The PCB said…
Indian-American Kash Patel has been named as the Chief of Staff to the Acting US Defence Secretary Chris Miller, the Pentagon has announced. The new appointment from the Pentagon comes a day after Trump fired Defence Secretary Mark Esper and designated the National Counter Terrorism Center Director, Chris Miller, as…
Faced with closures because of coronavirus measures and fierce competition from retail giant Amazon, 250 independent UK bookshops have banded together on a new online platform. "It's important to support independent booksellers," Anna Henrikson, 54 and a regular customer at Primrose Hill Books said as she collected her most recent…
India and China may be on the verge of a breakthrough in resolving the over six-month-long tense border standoff in eastern Ladakh with both sides broadly agreeing on a three-step process on disengagement of troops and withdrawal of weaponry from all major friction points in a time-bound manner, authoritative sources…
India's federal government will regulate content on video streaming platforms including global services such as Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Walt Disney's Hotstar as part of new rules announced earlier this week. Until now, content on video streaming platforms was not regulated by India's ministry of information and broadcasting. Earlier…
"India: The Forgotten Army", a documentary detailing the role played by Indian soldiers during the World War I, has started streaming on Discovery Plus, the platform announced on Wednesday. An adaptation of the book "World War Sikh: Memoirs Of An Indian Cavalryman 1913-45" by Rana TS Chhina, the film traces…
Apple Inc on Tuesday introduced a MacBook Air notebook and other machines with its first central processor designed in-house for Macs, a move that will tie its computers and iPhones closer together technologically. The new chip, called the M1, marks a shift away from Intel Corp technology that has driven…
