- Monday, February 24, 2025
INDIA'S minister of micro, small and medium enterprises Narayan Rane was on Tuesday (24) arrested for wanting to slap Uddhav Thackeray, the chief minister of the western Indian state of Maharashtra for what he claimed was the latter's ignorance of the year of India's independence. Rane was arrested at Sangameshwar…
INDIA'S antitrust regulator Competition Commission of India (CCI) has fined Maruti Suzuki, the country’s largest carmaker, Rs 2 billion (£19.6 million) for anti-competitive practices related to how it forced dealers to discount vehicles, it said in an order issued on Monday (23). In 2019, the CCI started looking into allegations…
INDIA will look to take an unassailable 2-0 lead in the ongoing five-match Test series against England when they take on the hosts in the third match starting at Headingley on Wednesday (25). The visitors made a remarkable comeback on the final day of the second Test match in Lord’s…
THREE copies of Guru Granth Sahib, the central Holy religious scripture of Sikhism, were flown out of Kabul on Tuesday (24) as India evacuated hundreds of people, including Afghan Hindus and Sikhs from the war-torn country. Union ministers Hardeep Singh Puri and V Muralidheeran received the copies along with 44…
A FAMOUS Hollywood actor was not concerned about the fuss around the word 'curry' in the recent weeks, as he polished off not one but two plates of chicken tikka masala during a break from filming Mission: Impossible 7 in Birmingham. The actor here is Tom Cruise, 59, who on Saturday…
SOUTH AFRICA head coach Mark Boucher has apologised for singing offensive songs and using racist nicknames during his playing days in an affidavit submitted to Cricket South Africa's (CSA) Social Justice and Nation-Building (SJN) committee on Monday (23). Boucher was responding to allegations levelled against him by former spinner Paul…
LONG JUMPER Shaili Singh on Sunday (22) missed out on a gold medal just by 1cm as she took home silver at the U-20 World Athletics Championships in Nairobi. The 17-year-old Indian's personal best effort of 6.59m was not enough for the top podium finish as Sweden's reigning European junior…
The Hindu Council of Wales on Sunday (22) celebrated the festival of Raksha Bandhan with members of the armed forces. The annual Hindu ceremony involves sisters of all ages tying a rakhi or an ‘amulet’ on the wrists of their brothers, symbolically protecting them, and getting a gift in return.…
BOLSTERED by strong demand from countries like the United States and the United Arab Emirates and region like Europe, India's exports in engineering goods reached an all-time high of $9.14 billion in July, constituting a fourth of the country's total merchandise exports, Engineering Export Promotion Council (EEPC) of India said.…
BRITISH space internet company OneWeb has successfully launched 34 new satellites into space on Saturday (21) through Russian Soyuz rocket, taking its in-orbit mega-constellation to 288. The rocket operated by Europe's Arianespace took off successfully at 2213 GMT Saturday (21) from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, the Roscosmos space agency…
