- Monday, February 24, 2025
FORMER US president Donald Trump slammed the current White House administration led by Joe Biden saying the collapse of Kabul without any resistance to the Taliban will go down as one of the greatest defeats in American history. “What Joe Biden has done with Afghanistan is legendary. It will go…
THE Narendra Modi government has asked Tesla Inc. to increase local procurement and share manufacturing plans in detail before the automaker giant’s demands for lower taxes on electric vehicles are considered, Bloomberg reported citing informed sources. India’s ministries of heavy industries and finance sought the details from the US company…
SURPRISINGLY, those implying that the Bangladeshi prime minister Sheikh Hasina is “a woman who, according to the customs and manners of the country, ought not to be compelled to appear in public, or where such person is under the age of18 years or is an idiot or lunatic, or is…
TWO wickets in two balls by Mohammad Abbas just before the close of play put the West Indies immediately on the back foot in reply to Pakistan's first innings total of 217 on the rain-affected opening day of the first Test at Sabina Park in Kingston on Thursday (12). At…
THE England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) is "very confident" the end of year Ashes tour will go ahead as planned even though negotiations are continuing over travel and quarantine restrictions in Australia. England will play the Twenty20 World Cup in the United Arab Emirates in October-November before heading to…
GOLD constitutes a sizeable part of Tanzania’s export earnings and overtook tourism last year as the south-east African nation’s biggest foreign-exchange earner. But the country’s government loses huge amounts of gold through smuggling by transnational criminal networks, according to a report by Mohamed Daghar, regional coordinator — Eastern Africa, ENACT…
DOMESTIC air travel in India is set to become dearer as the country’s civil aviation ministry has increased the lower and upper cap on fares by 9.83 to 12.82 per cent, an official order said. India had imposed lower and upper limits on airfares based on duration of flights when…
INDIAN businesses and vehicles in Kinshasa, the capital of Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), on Thursday (12) were attacked by a local mob as part of the fallout from a Congolese student’s death in police custody in the Indian city of Bangalore last week. Three persons were arrested while 40…
INDIA'S financial capital Mumbai has reported its first death from the Delta Plus variant of the Covid-19 disease. A 63-year-old woman passed away on July 27 after testing positive on July 21. Officials said the deceased had several comorbidities, including diabetes. The latest death is the second in the western…
PAKISTAN on Thursday (12) successfully test-fired a nuclear-capable surface-to-surface ballistic missile which can strike targets up to 290 kilometres, the army said. The training launch of the missile Ghaznavi was aimed at ensuring the operational readiness of the Army Strategic Forces Command, besides re-validating technical parameters of the weapon system,…
