- Sunday, February 23, 2025
A HIGH-LEVEL US Congressional delegation led by House Foreign Affairs Committee chairman Michael McCaul arrived in Dharamsala in India's Himalayan state of Himachal Pradesh on Tuesday (18) to meet Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama. The delegation comprised former US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Congress members Mariannette Miller,…
GAUTAM ADANI, chairman of India's Adani Group and one of Asia's richest businessmen, expressed enthusiasm following his recent meeting with the president of Tanzania, Samia Suluhu, last week. He shared his sentiments about the encounter through a post on social media platform X, where he called the opportunity to meet…
INDIAN prime minister Narendra Modi will lead a major event on the International Day of Yoga on June 21 in Srinagar in the northern Union Territory (UT) of Jammu and Kashmir. The main celebrations this year will be held at the Sher-i-Kashmir International Conference Centre in the summer capital of…
MORE than 200 tourists have been evacuated while around 1,000 are still stranded in Lachung in landslide-hit Mangan district of the north-eastern Indian state of Sikkim, a senior police officer said on Tuesday (18). The tourists were evacuated via Chungthang and taken to Mangan town from where the vehicles have…
INDIA will kick off their campaign in the Super Eight stage of the T20 World Cup 2024 on Thursday (20) when they take on Afghanistan in the first match of Group 1 at Kensington Oval in Bridgetown. The Men in Blue will be playing three matches in five days but…
TUESDAY (18) marked completion of two weeks since the results of India's general elections came out. The new government led by prime minister Narendra Modi was formed on June 9 and administrative work has resumed. However, one major decision is still pending and it is about the speaker of the…
DESPITE engaging in sexual activity with a junior lawyer twice on his office desk, a senior partner at a law firm in the UK has been informed he can remain in the profession. He was, however, suspended for two years. According to a disciplinary tribunal, Jasvinder Gill began flirting with…
MAXIMILIAN WOEBER'S own goal was enough to give France a winning start to their Euro 2024 campaign on Monday (17) as they edged Austria 1-0 in their opening game but Kylian Mbappe came off late on with a broken nose. Woeber diverted Mbappe's cutback into his own net seven minutes…
NICHOLAS POORAN was run out agonisingly short of a maiden T20 World Cup hundred as a rampant West Indies humbled Afghanistan by 104 runs in a clash of unbeaten teams on Monday. With both sides already into the Super Eights, Pooran smashed 98 off 53 balls in the final group…
INDIA'S gold and silver imports from its free trade agreement (FTA) partner United Arab Emirates have skyrocketed 210 per cent to $10.7 billion (£8.43 billion) in 2023-24 and there is a need to potentially revise the concessional customs duty rates under the pact to mitigate the arbitrage driving this surge,…
