- Monday, February 24, 2025
THE Indian Premier League (IPL) on Tuesday (31) launched a campaign to expand the tournament by seeking bids to include a new team. Organisers of the world’s richest cricket tournament had said that they would increase the participating teams in the tournament from eight to 10 for the 2022 edition,…
ON A fine spring day in 2014, Flight Lieutenant Rakesh Chauhan returned home to Britain from Afghanistan – in a coffin draped in the Union flag. A Royal Air Force (RAF) transport plane landed at RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire, bringing back the bodies of 29-year-old Rakesh and four other…
SRI LANKA on Tuesday (31) declared a state of emergency over food shortages as private banks ran out of foreign exchange to finance imports. With the country suffering a hard-hitting economic crisis, president Gotabaya Rajapaksa said he ordered emergency regulations to counter the hoarding of sugar, rice and other essential…
INDIAN Ambassador to Qatar Deepak Mittal on Tuesday (31) met top Taliban leader Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai, one of the prominent voices in the extremist group’s political office in Doha, marking the first formal diplomatic engagement since the change of guard in Kabul on August 15. According to sources in…
SHAKTIKANTA Das, the governor of India’s Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Tuesday (August 31) said although the global economy is showing signs of recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic, the problem is still not over. Speaking at the 21st FIMMDA-PDAI annual conference, he said, “While there are signs of recovery,…
THE Taliban are against getting dragged into the dispute between India and Pakistan and urged the two South Asian neighbours not to use them in what they call their internal fight. Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai, a senior Taliban leader and a prominent face in the extremist outfit’s political office in…
HONDA Cars India Ltd (HCIL) on Tuesday (31) said it has partnered with IndusInd Bank to offer various finance schemes to its customers to address their various financing and payment-related requirements. The tie-up is expected to facilitate customers to avail custom-built financing solutions on purchase of Honda models like Amaze…
INDIA'S shining run at the Paralympics in Tokyo, Japan, continued on Tuesday (31) as shooter Singhraj Adana, who took to the sport only four years ago and made his debut at the mega event this year, clinched bronze in the P1 men’s 10-metre air pistol SH1 event. The 39-year-old from…
INDIA'S cricketing fraternity mourned the demise of noted coach in the game Vasu Paranjape on Monday (30). The 82-year-old died at his residence in Matunga in Mumbai, the capital of the western state of Maharashtra, and is survived by his wife and son Jatin Paranjape, a former Indian cricketer and…
TWO weeks after Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan backed the Taliban that recaptured power in Afghanistan saying they broke the slavery mentality, another former Pakistan cricket captain Shahid Afridi has followed suit. In a video shared by Pakistani journalist Naila Inayat recently, the former international cricketer was seen telling reporters…
