- Tuesday, April 22, 2025
WHILE millions in the Indian subcontinent and elsewhere were keeping a close watch on runs and wickets in the ongoing cricket World Cup 2023, the quadrennial tournament also remained witness to a noble initiative of children's welfare. The International Cricket Council (ICC), along with the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF…
PRIME Minister Rishi Sunak on Thursday (12) announced a new support package, including £3 million extra funding, targeted at enhanced protection for the country's Jewish communities against antisemitic attacks in the wake of the conflict in Israel. The additional funding will be provided to the Community Security Trust (CST), an…
ICC WORLD Cup 2023 is just over a week old and already, the tournament has seen some brilliant knocks. Here we take a look at the 10 highest scorers till the end of the match between Australia and South Africa in Lucknow on Thursday (12) which saw Quinton de Kock…
A 14-YEAR-OLD Indian-origin Singaporean student, who died last week after a fitness trial at a sports school, wanted to be an Olympic champion. Prem Singh Madhaik, father of Pranav, recalled his son saying, “I want to be an Olympic champion.” But that dream was left unfulfilled when Pranav died on…
THE Labour Party has refused to back a motion over "alleged violence and rights abuses" in Jammu and Kashmir at its annual conference in Liverpool earlier this week. The motion, which was put forward by the Birmingham Hodge Hill constituency Labour Party (CLP), a party unit, for debate at the…
INDIA began evacuating its nationals stranded in violence-rocked Israel on Friday (13) morning when a charter flight brought back the first batch to New Delhi under 'Operation Ajay' which was launched on Wednesday (11) with an announcement by external affairs minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar. The flight, which carried 212 passengers including…
YOSSI Landau has spent decades collecting corpses in Israel, but he almost reached breaking point recovering the remains of people killed by Gaza militants in the country's deadliest assault. Landau woke to the sounds of sirens on Saturday, a moment he had become "used to" as Israelis took shelter from…
CRICKET crazy fans desperate to witness Saturday's (14) World Cup blockbuster between India and Pakistan will sleep in hospitals, a source told AFP, rather than hotels where some prices have been hiked by up to 10 times their standard rates. Thousands of fans have descended on the western Indian city…
KANE Williamson said the legacy of the All Blacks inspires New Zealand's cricketers as he prepares to return from a long injury layoff to captain the team at the World Cup. New Zealand have won their opening two matches in India in the absence of their skipper, who injured his…
HERE are news in brief on Indian economy and business for Thursday, October 12, 2023: With India's festival season about to kick off, e-commerce firms such as Amazon and Walmart-owned Flipkart are gearing up for a potentially record-breaking few weeks. Any lingering fears that inflation and higher interest rates would dampen…
