- Sunday, February 23, 2025
SANIA MIRZA and her American partner Bethanie Mattek-Sands knocked out sixth seeds Desirae Krawczyk and Alexa Guarachi to move to the second round of the women's doubles event at Wimbledon on Thursday (1). Sania and Mattek-Sands were a bit rusty at the start but once they got into a rhythm…
A QUADCOPTER from Pakistan attempted to enter the Indian territory along the international border from Arnia sector in Jammu early on Friday (2) but went back when India’s Border Security Force (BSF) personnel started firing at it. Indian daily Hindustan Times, which reported about the incident, said the drone’s movement…
AROUND 200 contract employees have been retrenched allegedly over a poll-roll fraudulence which had put the Election Commission of India into the back foot ahead of the Kerala state election in April. According to a report by Kerala's Onmanorama, the retrenched data-entry operators, who were appointed through the state electronics…
INDIAN finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday (1) praised tax officials for the enforcement measures dealing with Goods and Services Tax (GST) fraud and said the enhanced revenue collection in the recent months should be the “new normal”. In a message to the officials on the fourth anniversary of the…
INDIA on Thursday (1) asked Pakistan to ensure early release and repatriation of its civilian prisoners and defence personnel languishing in Pakistani jails. The two neighbours exchanged lists of civilian prisoners and fishermen in each other’s custody in line with the provisions of a agreement made in 2008. India’s ministry…
INDIA'S manufacturing sector activities shrunk for the first time in 11 months in June since the rise of coronavirus cases and strict lockdown measures disrupted demand and resulted in loss of jobs, a survey said on Thursday (1). The IHS Markit India Manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) fell to 48.1…
THE Supreme Court of India on Thursday (1) agreed to hear a plea seeking direction to the central government to impose presidential rule in the eastern state of West Bengal in view of the deteriorating law and order situation there following the local elections. The plea also sought direction to…
A SIX-YEAR-OLD boy died while two of his siblings were undergoing treatment in a hospital after their father allegedly added rat poison to their ice cream following a dispute with his wife. The tragic incident happened in Mumbai, the capital of the western Indian state of Maharashtra. The man is…
K V Sampath Kumar Iyengar, the editor of the world’s only Sanskrit newspaper Sudharma, died of a massive cardiac arrest in Mysuru in the southern Indian state of Karnataka on Wednesday (30). He was 64 and is survived by his wife KS Jayalakshmi. Iyengar collapsed at his office table around…
SHE is perhaps the fiercest critic of Indian prime minister Narendra Modi in the country's politics at the moment. Mamata Banerjee, the firebrand chief minister of the eastern Indian state of West Bengal, has not minced words when it comes to opposing Modi, currently the most popular politician in the…
