- Monday, February 24, 2025
SOUTH AFRICA’S former president Jacob Zuma was admitted to hospital on Friday (6), less than a week before his graft trial. He is scheduled to attend the resumption of a long-running corruption trial on August 10. Currently, Zuma, 79, is serving his 15-month jail term for failing to appear at…
ENGLAND'S hopes of T20 World Cup and Ashes glory suffered a major setback on Thursday (5) when it was announced that fast bowler Jofra Archer would be sidelined for the rest of this year with an elbow injury. The England and Wales Cricket Board said in a statement that scans…
HINDI is among the top five languages that Asian-Americans speak, an eminent expert has said in the US. John Yang, president and executive of the Los Angeles-based Asian Americans Advancing Justice (AAJC), told members of the senate committee on homeland security and governmental affairs that nearly two-third of the Asian-American…
Indian prime minister Narendra Modi is known for giving master strokes. At a time when his government has faced pressure from the opposition over the alleged Pegasus snooping row and the monsoon session of the parliament has been disrupted by the opponents who hoped that things will now turn for…
IN another example of their brutality, the Taliban on Friday (6) shot dead Dawa Khan Menapal, the chief of the Afghanistan government’s media information centre at a mosque in the capital Kabul, days after warning that they would target senior administrative officials in retaliation for a rise in air strikes.…
MEMBERS of the Indian women’s hockey team on Friday (6) broke down while speaking with prime minister Narendra Modi over the telephone after their loss to Great Britain in the bronze-medal match. India came back strongly into the game after conceding two goals and took a lead but the 2016…
TABITHA Chawinga, a 25-year-old star female football player from Malawi, has urged her country’s football authorities to bring in safeguards to protect women from abuse at different levels of the game. Chawinga, who became the southeastern African nation’s first woman to sign for a European team when she joined the…
A CHARITY in northwest London will be sending its third batch of clothes to pandemic-hit India very soon. Lelung Dharma Trust, a London-based charity with an outlet on Field End Road, Eastcote, has been playing an active role in donating clothes for needy people in India with some 800 kilograms…
A MAN was arrested from Roshnabad area of Haridwar district of North Indian state of Uttarakhand for allegedly making a mockery of and uttering casteist remarks against the family of Vandana Katariya, a member of the women’s national hockey team. Sources in the police on Thursday (5) said two men…
INDIA'S highest sporting honour Rajiv Khel Ratna Award, which was named after former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi, was on Friday (6) renamed after hockey wizard Major Dhyan Chand, following the performance of both the men’s and women’s hockey teams at the ongoing Tokyo Olympics. Indian prime minister Narendra Modi, who…
