- Tuesday, February 25, 2025
INDIA has decided to extend the tenure of Shaktikanta Das, the governor of its central bank, for three more years or until further notice, earning applause from the market and economists. Under Das, 64, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has slashed key interest rates to record lows and infused…
HUMANS live on hope. We begin another march towards the hope of clinching a deal that would save the planet from an impending catastrophe of all living beings getting extinct. We are in the midst of a real crisis. Temperatures have already increased by 1.1 degree Celsius over the pre-industrial…
THE next general election in India is nearly three years away and going by the current mood in the country, not many would think beyond prime minister Narendra Modi and his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) returning to power for the third time in a row. This thinking is helped by…
INDIA recently deployed the US-made weaponry it acquired along its border with China as part of a new move to boost its capabilities as the two nuclear-armed neighbours continue to engage over their border dispute in the Himalayas. According to a report by Bloomberg, the military build-up in India’s northeastern…
ARYAN Khan, son of Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan, who was arrested by the Narcotics Control Bureau in a drugs-on-cruise case early on October 3, finally got bail from the Bombay High Court on Thursday (28) after being denied the same by lower courts a number of times. A number…
POLITICALLY, the relations between the two neighbours have been a roller-coaster ride over the past many years but when it comes to 22 yards, Pakistan and Afghanistan have always been fierce competitors. Their last encounter in the 2019 ICC World Cup is a testimony to this fact. The two Asian…
INDIAN prime minister Narendra Modi on Friday (29) arrived in Rome, Italy, to take part in the two-day G20 Summit starting Saturday (30). He is likely to hold several bilateral meetings on the sidelines of the summit including one with Mario Draghi, his counterpart from the host nation. Asian News…
AUSTRALIA showed once again their determination to clinch the first World Cup title in the T20 format when they thumped former champions Sri Lanka by seven wickets in a crucial Group 1 game at Dubai International Stadium, the United Arab Emirates, on Thursday (28) to pick two points. Australia, who…
QUINTON De Kock has apologised for pulling out of Tuesday's (26) Twenty20 World Cup match against the West Indies after rejecting a Cricket South Africa (CSA) directive that players must "take a knee" in support of the Black Lives Matter movement before the game. De Kock, who has revealed he…
INDIA on Wednesday (27) rejected calls to announce a net zero carbon emissions target and said it was more important for the world to lay out a pathway to reduce such emissions and avert a dangerous rise in global temperatures. India, the world's third-biggest emitter of greenhouse gases after China…
