- Monday, February 24, 2025
ROME eventually got to host the Olympics in 1960, more than 50 years after it was supposed to do for the first time. The capital of Italy was awarded the administration of the 1908 edition but it had to pass the honour to London because of the eruption of Mount…
THE United States has warned the Taliban in Afghanistan that any government that does not respect human rights and seeks to rule with the help of guns will lack international legitimacy. The Taliban have seen a resurgence in the war-torn country in recent times and are believed to control about…
THE United States state department has eased its Covid-19-related travel advisory to India to “Level 3 – Reconsider Travel”. Similarly, it also lowered travel advisory for Pakistan. Previously, the Covid-19-related advisories were at the highest Level 4 that advises against travelling. The department lowered the advisories in a statement issued…
A NERVY England beat a battling Pakistan by three wickets, and with just two balls to spare, in a nail-biting thriller at Old Trafford on Tuesday (20) that sealed a 2-1 T20 series win. Pakistan, who won the toss and opted to bat in front of a noisy 20,000-strong crowd…
NUMBER-EIGHT batsman Deepak Chahar hit an unbeaten 69 as India edged out Sri Lanka by three wickets in the second one-day international to clinch the series on Tuesday (20). India chased down their target of 276 with five balls to spare as Chahar recorded his maiden ODI fifty after the…
VETERAN Indian National Congress leader Sonia Gandhi is likely to remain the party’s interim president till the 2024 general elections while young faces could be given key posts, Indian news channel Times Now reported on Wednesday (21) citing sources. Sonia will turn 75 this December. Rahul Gandhi, a member of…
MORE than one rocket landed on Tuesday (20) near the Afghanistan presidential palace in Kabul when president Ashraf Ghani was set to address people on the occasion of Eid-a-Adha. A video shared by Afghanistan’s TOLOnews showed the president offering the prayers with many others even as the blasting noise of…
THE Narendra Modi government on Tuesday (20) told the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Indian parliament, that no deaths due to lack of oxygen were specifically reported by the states and Union Territories during the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic that wreaked havoc in April and May.…
AMID the devastating unrest in South Africa over the past few weeks, the country’s police minister Bheki Cele has said that he did not receive any intelligence report from the State Security Agency (SSA), which looks after the civilian intelligence operations, about the turmoil in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) and Gauteng provinces…
UGANDA is sending more officials than athletes to Tokyo for the forthcoming Olympic Games kicking off this Friday (23). The eastern African nation is sending a 56-member contingent to take part in the mega event in Japan but of them, only 25 are athletes while 31 are non-playing staff and…
