- Tuesday, February 25, 2025
TWO-TIME champions Kolkata Knight Riders’ (KKR) dream resumption in the split 2021 edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL) continued on Thursday (23) when they crushed five-time and defending champions Mumbai Indians (MI) by seven wickets at Sheikh Zayed Cricket Stadium in Abu Dhabi, the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Eoin…
INDIAN prime minister on Thursday (23) chief executive officers (CEOs) of five leading US firms in Washington DC, hours after arriving in America for his seventh tour since taking office in 2014. He met the corporate leaders in one-on-one meetings and spoke with them on a range of issues, including…
INDIAN prime minister Narendra Modi kicked off his high-profile official visit to the United States on Thursday (23) by meeting five chief executive officers (CEO) of some leading American firms from five key fields. Two of the CEOs – Shantanu Narayen of Abode and Vivek Lall of General Atomics –…
NEARLY a month after the murder of Babita Deokaran, the government of South Africa has launched a unit to encourage and protect whistleblowers with an aim to root out corruption, the country’s online news portal News24 said. Speaking at the launch of the unit on Monday (21), minister of public…
KENYA Tourism Board (KTB) on Thursday (23) said that the African country has reopened its border for travellers from India after it was closed for some time due to the outbreak of the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic. The temporary ban which was put on passenger flights from India…
INDIA aims to block investors from China from buying shares in its insurance giant Life Insurance Corp (LIC) which is set to go public, Reuters exclusively reported citing some senior officials in the Narendra Modi government. The revelation brought to the fore again the underscoring tensions between the two nuclear…
AN Indian man accused of attempted rape has been given bail on condition that he wash and iron the clothes of all women in his village for six months. Lalan Kumar, 20, will have to buy detergent and other items needed to provide six months of free laundry services to…
IN what is seen as another feat for the Indian-American community, US president Joe Biden has nominated Ashish Vazirani, a management consultant, to a key position in Pentagon, the country’s defence headquarters. Currently the principal of A2O Strategies, LLC, where he gives advisory services to commercial and non-profit, high growth…
FORMER England captain Michael Atherton says it was strange that the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) called off the Pakistan tour, citing players' welfare but allowed them a three-month window to play the IPL. In a scathing assessment of the ECB's decision, Atherton said it was worse than India's…
INDIA was back into the headlines for the wrong reason on Thursday (23) when police in Thane district of the western state of Maharashtra said a teenage girl was allegedly gangraped by as many as 24 people, including two minors, in different areas of the district. While 22 were arrested…
