- Wednesday, February 26, 2025
FORMER Yorkshire cricketer Azeem Rafiq on Tuesday (16) held back tears while telling a committee of British lawmakers that he felt “isolated and humiliated” by the racist treatment he got while playing for the club. An independent report said the Pakistan-born player was a victim of “racial harassment and bullying”…
DESPITE their sour relations, Pakistan has decided to allow India to send 50,000 tonnes of wheat through its territory to reach Afghanistan which is facing a severe food crisis as its economy has stalled since the Taliban stormed back to power in August, Bloomberg reported citing an Afghan government official.…
NEW ZEALAND captain Kane Williamson, who has guided his country to the finals of world championships in all the three formats since 2019, is set to skip the T20 international series against India starting on Wednesday (17) since he wants to fully focus on the two-Test series which follows the…
REPORTS of 1,888 custodial deaths have surfaced from across India in the last 20 years while 893 cases have been registered against police personnel and 358 officials have been charge-sheeted, The Indian Express has quoted official data as showing. However, only 26 policemen have been convicted in this period, according…
INDIA on Monday (15) opened to foreign tourists from countries with reciprocal agreements after a 20-month ban because of the Covid-19 pandemic. Tour operators said, however, that demand was extremely sluggish due to high ticket prices and remaining restrictions on travellers from Britain, China and elsewhere. The country famous for…
THE Indian economy is likely to witness a double-digit growth in 2021-22 and between 6.5 and seven per cent in the next financial year, the country’s outgoing chief economic advisor KV Subramanian on Sunday (14) said. He also said that he does not expect that commodity inflation will diminish the…
RAHUL Dravid, who has been appointed as the new head coach of the Indian national cricket team, on Monday (15) hit the nets along with new T20 international captain Rohit Sharma as the players took part in a practice session at Sawai Mansingh Stadium in Jaipur in the north-western state…
ARVIND Krishna, the chief executive and chairman of IBM, one of the world’s largest computer companies, is not too bothered about how his employees do their job as long as they get the job done. The 59-year-old, who is the latest high-profile industry leader to call time on fixed working…
INDIAN finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday (15) chaired a meeting of chief ministers and finance ministers of various states of the country via video-conferencing on the issue of economic recovery post-Covid pandemic. Finance secretary TV Somanathan, who briefed about the meeting, said, “Growth had slowed down in the Covid-19…
INDIAN National Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Sunday (14) said her party will not make any alliance for the 2022 assembly elections in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh and will contest alone in all 403 seats. The party unit in the state tweeted the same day…
