- Thursday, February 27, 2025
HOCKEY INDIA (HI) secretary general Bhola Nath Singh claimed that India will definitely win gold at the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics if they miss out on the top prize in Paris next year. He said the current administration under former India captain Dilip Tirkey is leaving no stone unturned to…
PAKISTAN prime minister Shehbaz Sharif said he would advise the president to dissolve parliament late on Wednesday (9), setting the stage for a national election as the country grapples with political and economic crises. The parliament’s five-year term is due to expire on August 12, but this move would dissolve…
Scientists in the US have found that women who consume sugar-sweetened drinks daily face an increased risk of developing liver cancer and experiencing mortality due to chronic liver disease. The observational study, led by researchers from Brigham and Women‘s Hospital, US, included 98,786 postmenopausal women from the prospective Women‘s Health Initiative (WHI) study. The WHI study focuses…
SEPARATIST leader Yasin Malik on Wednesday (9) virtually appeared before the Delhi high court from jail in connection with the National Investigation Agency’s plea seeking death penalty for him in a terror funding case. Last week, the high court had directed that the Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front chief, who…
PAKISTAN’S former prime minister Imran Khan became the third former premier barred from public office since 2012 after the country’s election commission on Tuesday (8) banned him for five years. The ban followed Khan’s conviction in a graft case on Saturday (5). The law says such a conviction disqualifies an…
The police reported on Wednesday (9) that a website dedicated to providing factual information about Hinduism, managed by an individual from Pune, a city in the western Indian state of Maharashtra, received a comment containing threats of a bomb blast in the country and harm to prime minister Narendra Modi.…
A POLICE officer who pleaded guilty to causing the death by dangerous driving of a woman in London was sentenced to three years’ imprisonment and disqualified from driving for over four years by a court. Police Constable (PC) Nadeem Patel, 28, was behind the wheel of a marked police patrol…
RICE planting in India could fall by five per cent as New Delhi’s decision to ban non-basmati white rice exports will cut farm income and encourage growers to switch to other crops, a leading farmers’ group with close ties to the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party has claimed. The world’s biggest…
INDIA’s cricket board earned a surplus of around $1.5 billion (£1.2bn) in the five years to 2021-22, the country’s parliament heard during a rare look into the sporting body’s finances. The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) does not typically publish its finances in detail. But it is…
BRITAIN said it had struck a deal with Turkey in a bid to slow the flow of immigrants passing through the Mediterranean country on their way to Europe. The agreement includes joint police operations against smuggler rings and the trade in boat parts. With the issue of illegal migration high…
