- Tuesday, February 25, 2025
TWO-TIME winners Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) produced a thoroughly clinical performance in their final game of Indian Premier League (IPL) 2021 at Sharjah Cricket Stadium when they thrashed Rajasthan Royals (RR) by 86 runs to better their chances of making the playoffs. KKR, who are led by England limited-over captain…
AT LEAST 20 people were killed and dozens injured when a shallow earthquake hit southwestern Pakistan in the early hours of Thursday (7), with rescuers trying to reach coal miners reportedly trapped underground. Many of the victims died when the roofs and walls of their mud-brick houses collapsed after the…
A NEW mental health campaign has been launched in England to improve the mental health of adults and South Asians. The Every Mind Matters (EMM) initiative started after half of all adults and almost two-thirds of South Asians have said that the pandemic had negatively impacted their mental health, a statement…
A COURT in Mumbai on Thursday (7) sent Aryan Khan, the 23-year-old son of popular Indian actor Shah Rukh Khan, to 14 days of judicial custody along with seven others in connection with a drug seizure on a cruise ship off the city’s coast early on October 3. Aryan was…
A "HEALTHY" Air India is good for the country and its brand would gradually be restored to its past glory following its privatisation by the government, SpijeJet chairman-and-managing director Ajay Singh on Thursday (7) said. When asked by the Press Trust of India whether he has bid for India’s debt-ridden…
AIMING to boost the economy through tourism, the Indian government has decided to lift the Covid restrictions for international travellers by restarting grant of tourist visas. According to reports, the government will start issuing fresh tourist visas to foreigners arriving in India from November 15. For those who are travelling…
HOURS after he condemned on Thursday (7) the incident of a car allegedly mowing down protesting farmers in Lakhimpur Kheri district of the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh last Sunday (3), Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) parliamentarian Varun Gandhi found his name dropped from the party’s new national executive committee.…
THREE-TIME champions Chennai Super Kings (CSK) hit a roadblock just ahead of the playoffs as they lost to Punjab Kings (PBKS) by six wickets in the two teams’ final league game in the ongoing Indian Premier League (IPL) 2021 at Dubai International Cricket Stadium on Thursday (7). The win gave…
TAMZANIAN novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah has won the Nobel Prize in literature for 2021 for his uncompromising work on the effects of colonialism and the fate of refugees. Born in the island of Zanzibar in the Indian Ocean in 1948 who arrived in the UK at the end of the 1960s,…
THE northern Israeli coastal city of Haifa on Thursday (7) paid tributes to the Indian soldiers who were martyred in the region during the First World War (1914-18) to liberate the city from the Ottoman rule in what most war historians consider “the last great cavalry campaign in history”. Every…
