- Tuesday, February 25, 2025
KOLKATA Knight Riders (KKR) survived a scare in the closing minutes of the second qualifier of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2021 at Sharjah Cricket Stadium on Wednesday (13) to beat Delhi Capitals (DC) by three wickets to reach the final after seven years. They will meet Chennai Super Kings…
INDIAN home minister Amit Shah will visit Jammu and Kashmir between October 23 and 25 as part of the Narendra Modi government’s outreach programme, Asian News International said on Wednesday (13) citing sources. The high-profile visit will take place at a time when the situation in Jammu and Kashmir has…
THE Indian men’s team on Tuesday (12) thrashed Tahiti 5-0 in Thomas Cup at the Ceres Arena in Aarhus, Denmark, to qualify for the quarter finals from Group C. India beat the Netherlands by a similar margin in their first match of the group on Sunday (10) and are at…
INDIA'S political circle was left polarised after the country’s defence minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday (12) hailed Vinayak Damodar Savarkar or ‘Veer’ Savarkar as a staunch nationalist who wrote mercy petitions to the British at the saying of Mahatma Gandhi and people following Marxist and Leninist ideologies wrongly accused him…
THE Narendra Modi government on Wednesday (13) withdrew the travel guidelines that were issued earlier this month in a tit-for-tat move to the UK to make travellers coming from that country to India to serve a mandatory 10-day quarantine. “Revised guidelines for UK nationals arriving in India issued on October…
FORMER Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday (13) was admitted to the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in New Delhi after he complained of weakness following a fever, Press Trust of India reported. Singh, who turned 89 last month, had fever on Monday but reportedly turned weak after…
THE Indian National Congress, India’s main opposition party, on Tuesday (12) lashed out at prime minister Narendra Modi over his remarks related to human rights in the country and said the latter made a mockery of human rights since his days in Gujarat where he served as the chief minister…
BRITISH prime minister Boris Johnson recently interrupted his Spanish holiday to appeal to countries like India and Saudi Arabia to adopt more ambitious climate-change goals in the run-up to next month’s COP26 or 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, Scotland. Johnson, who was spending the week in a…
SOUTH Asian women are the least likely to check their breasts for signs of cancer, new research revealed this week. Around 40 per cent never check their breasts at all, compared to 27 per cent of black women and 13 per cent for other ethnicities, according to the Estée Lauder…
INDIA has allowed power producers to expedite imports of coal to use for up to 10 per cent of blends with the domestic grade to meet increased power demand in a move that could push up already high global prices. Asia's third-largest economy is facing large-scale outages as several power…
