- Tuesday, February 25, 2025
AS a 20-year-old who was waiting for his international debut, England's Shoaib Bashir was preparing for a lifetime memory when a brief visa hassle disrupted his momentum. But the tall spinner of Pakistani-origin was quick to overcome the episode and joined his national squad and eventually made the much-anticipated debut…
INDIA on Friday (2) officially launched its Unified Payments Interface (UPI) at the renowned Eiffel Tower, marking a significant step towards realising prime minister Narendra Modi's vision of globalising UPI, which is an instant payment system developed by the Mumbai-based National Payments Corporation of India. The official X handle of…
SOUTH Asia's regional politics might see new equations emerging ever since a diplomatic row started between India and the Maldives after the latter's new president exhibited clearly his intention to keep New Delhi at a distance. After Mohamed Muizzu showed that he was more than interested to prioritise China at…
THE British Asian Trust, a charity founded by King Charles III, has taken an educational initiative to improve the lives of up to four million children in India over a period of five years. The initiative -- LiftEd — Learning and Innovation in Foundational Literacy and Numeracy to Transform Education…
PAKISTAN'S preeminent rights activist describes the upcoming election as a messy melodrama staged by an emboldened military, unlikely to bring down the curtain on a cast of crises plaguing the country. Millions of people will vote in polls in less than two weeks, in a campaign marred by allegations of…
A MAN in his early 20s was arrested for allegedly making threats and brandishing two big swords inside a Sikh temple (gurdwara) in British Columbia in Canada. Police officers responded to the incident that took place last week during an evening service inside the temple in Penticton, the Royal Canadian…
THE Indian government led by prime minister Narendra Modi is confident of doing well in the upcoming general elections due in a few months because of the "trust people have" in the PM, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman told Indian channel NDTV on Friday (2), a day after presenting the interim…
INDIA opener Yashasvi Jaiswal made a strong statement with the bat in the second Test against England at the ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium Stadium in Visakhapatnam on Friday (2) when he hit an unbeaten century on the first day, making amends for his dismissal in the 80s in the previous match.…
YET another incident of death of an Indian-origin student has been reported from the US on Thursday (1). Nineteen-year-old Shreyas Reddy Benigeri, who was a student at the Lindner School of Business in Cincinnati the state of Ohio, was found dead. The Indian consulate general in New York expressed grief…
IN a major development, the US on Thursday (1) approved the sale of 31 MQ-9B armed drones to India at an estimated cost of $3.99 billion (£3.13 billion), an acquisition that will bolster India's capability to meet current and future threats by enabling unmanned surveillance and reconnaissance patrols in sea…
