- Monday, February 24, 2025
ENGLAND showed enough intent of squaring the series against India in the Third Test which began at Headingley Carnegie, Leeds, on Wednesday (25). Trailing 0-1 in the five-match series after losing the second match in Lord's by 151 runs, the hosts came hard at the tourists to bowl them out…
THE Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC), which looks after the management of gurdwaras, on Monday (23) announced its plan to set up presses abroad to print the holy saroops (copies) of Guru Granth Sahib, the holy book in Sikhism, to meet the long-pending demand of the Sikh diaspora. In a…
INFLUENTIAL lawmakers from members of the G7 group have said that India should be invited to attend the bloc’s meeting that seeks to develop a united front for global security and regional stability in the wake of the Taliban taking over power in Afghanistan. US Democratic senator Bob Menendez, who…
WATER disputes between India and Pakistan were back into focus as Islamabad has raised objections to the design of India’s Kiru hydroelectric plant, a mega 624 megawatt (MW) project over the Chenab river in Jammu and Kashmir. New Delhi has countered the objection saying the project is fully compliant with…
IN a horrific incident, a teenage boy was fatally shot in the eastern Indian state of Bihar on Monday (23) for charging Rs 10 (£0.09) as fare for taking the brother of a local muscleman on his boat in times of floods, Gulf News reported. According to police, the 17-year-old…
INDIAN cabinet minister Narayan Rane was on Tuesday (24) released on bail, nearly nine hours after arrest by Maharashtra Police for threatening to slap the state’s chief minister – Uddhav Thackeray. The minister of micro, small and medium enterprises was arrested during a public relations campaign in Sangameshwar in Ratnagiri…
THE Indian government on Wednesday (25) said that all Afghan nationals must henceforth travel to India only on e-visa in view of the prevailing situation in the war-torn country. The decision came days after the Narendra Modi government came up with a new category of visa called “e-Emergency X-Misc visa”…
A 48-YEAR-OLD tech executive of Indian origin has been sentenced to two years in prison in the US for fraudulently obtaining almost $1.8 million in federal Covid-19 disaster relief funds. Besides the prison sentence, Mohan was also ordered to pay a fine of $100,000 and $1,786,357 in restitution. Mukund Mohan…
A CORONAVIRUS "super variant" worse than Covid-19, Covid-22, is likely to emerge next year, stated reports on Tuesday (24), citing a Zurich-based scientist's claim, who also warned that every unvaccinated person, including children, is a potential super-spreader. According to Dr Sai Reddy, the immunologist expert at federal technology institute ETH…
THE southern Indian state of Telangana has bagged the top position in the country with the highest average annual growth rate (AAGR) of state's own income as per the latest data from the central government's ministry of statistics and programme implementation, the Times of India reported on Tuesday (24). Telangana's…
