JAMES ANDERSON said he was "excited" by the prospect of facing India captain Virat Kohli again as two of the world's best cricketers prepare for yet another head-to-head clash. Anderson is the first fast bowler to take 600 Test wickets, with Kohli one of the outstanding batsmen of his generation.…
A MALE student in Senegal was detained on Monday (2) after he disguised himself as a female to sit for national examinations as a proxy for his girlfriend. The student, who is enrolled in a university in the north of the African nation, was placed under arrest on Monday evening…
INDIA cricket captain Virat Kohli said on the eve of the first Test against England at Trent Bridge that if international cricketers do not take “periodic breaks” from the tough bio-bubble life, there could be a time when no players of quality will be left to do national service. The…
STERLITE Technologies Ltd (STL) has come up with a collaboration with Facebook Connectivity to design and develop 4G and 5G radio products as part of the Evenstar programme to help accelerate commercial deployment of ‘Open RAN’ and boost 5G preparedness for operators. The Evenstar programme is a collaborative effort by…
THE death of a 20-year-old Indian student in China’s Tianjin city, located around 80 miles southwest from the capital Beijing, was a homicide and a foreign national has been arrested in connection to the incident, the Chinese foreign ministry on Tuesday (3) said. The suspect’s nationality has not been revealed,…
INDIAN prime minister Narendra Modi has been found to be regularly encouraging his country’s participants at the ongoing Olympic Games in Tokyo. On Tuesday (3), he praised the Indian men’s hockey team after it lost to Belgium in the semi-final which they made after a gap of 49 years. He…
A VILLAGE court in the eastern Indian state of Bihar has given permission to a newly married woman to divorce her husband and pursue studies to fulfil her career dream. The woman got married a month-and-half ago. According to a report by Gulf News, the 19-year-old woman named Neha Kumari…
INDIAN telecommunications services company Bharti Airtel on Tuesday (3) reported a consolidated net profit of Rs 284 crore (£27.5 million) for the June quarter against a loss of Rs 15,933 crore (£1,544 million) in the corresponding period the year before. Airtel’s total revenue surged 15.3 per cent year-on-year to Rs…
SERBIA is benefiting from Covid-19 'quarantine tourism' as thousands of Indians make a two-week stopover on the way to other countries. India has registered more coronavirus cases than any other country except the United States. Its citizens are barred from entering many countries during the pandemic unless they spend two…
INDIA'S two-time Olympic medallist Sushil Kumar and his associates beat up former junior national wrestling champion Sagar Dhankar and others with sticks, hockey and baseball bat for 30-40 minutes after the bolting the gate of the Chhatrasal Stadium in New Delhi from inside, a charge sheet by the Delhi Police…