- Tuesday, February 25, 2025
PAKISTAN batting consultant Matthew Hayden on Thursday (21) said the upcoming clash between India and Pakistan at the ongoing T20 World Cup will be a ‘dogfight’ and no one team would run away with the game. Both teams will play their first game of the tournament against each other at…
LONDON mayor Sadiq Khan on Thursday (21) said Diwali celebrations will take place at Trafalgar Square on Saturday (23) with much fanfare and he wished all communities ahead of the festival of lights. “I want to send my warmest wishes to all those celebrating Diwali, the festival of lights, in…
THE US has come out backing India against China once again with a top American diplomat nominated by president Joe Biden as his next ambassador to Beijing has told lawmakers that China has been an aggressor against India and Washington must hold Beijing accountable for not abiding by the rules.…
INDIA'S season of festivities is here but the common man is far from enjoying the times, thanks to ever-rising prices of almost everything under the sun. Diwali, India’s popular festival of lights is just weeks away but soaring prices have left people with little enthusiasm. Suman Milind, a homemaker from…
NEARLY 200 people have perished in floods and landslides that have hit India and Nepal over the past few days, officials said on Thursday (21) with families getting buried in their homes and two young girls swept away. Forecasters have warned of more heavy rain. AFP cited experts as saying…
INDIA on Thursday (21) reached the milestone of administering its one billionth Covid-19 vaccine dose. Prime minister Narendra Modi hailed the feat as a “triumph of Indian science” but authorities still remain cautious about a new pandemic wave. India was devastated by the second wave earlier this year in which…
TRAVELLERS who have been fully jabbed and coming from a country with which India has reciprocal arrangements for mutual acceptance of Covid-19 vaccines approved by the World Health Organisation (WHO) can exit the airport and need not serve home quarantine and testing. They will, however, have to produce a negative…
AN Indian diplomat’s mike curiously went silent when she was voicing a strong opposition to China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and its flagship project – CPEC (China Pakistan Economic Corridor) – at the just concluded second United Nations Sustainable Transport Conference in Beijing. The sudden “mike failure” at the…
INDIAN prime minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday (20), in an apparent push to his government’s Buddhist tourism circuit initiative, inaugurated an international airport in Kushinagar in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. He also said on the occasion that a slew of measures is being undertaken to boost the…
US SPECIAL presidential envoy for climate John Kerry on Wednesday (20) said India’s goal of reaching 450 gigawatts (GW) of renewable energy by 2030 is doable at it has already gone past the 100 GW mark. Appreciating the Asian economy in his speech in a session of the International Solar…
