- Wednesday, February 26, 2025
RAIN continued to play spoilsport in the warm-up games ahead of the 50-over World Cup set to kick off on Thursday (5) with three matches ending without results. However, while the South Africa-Afghanistan and India-England games on Friday (29) and Saturday (30), respectively, did not see a single ball being…
CANADIAN prime minister Justin Trudeau has found yet another high-profile critic amid his government's ongoing diplomatic row with its Indian counterpart over the killing of a Sikh separatist leader in British Columbia in June. Elon Musk, the billionaire owner of social media platform X, has lashed out at the Trudeau…
A PROFESSIONAL from Scotland has been provided with a compensation of £37,000 after her boss commented that her menopause was an "excuse for everything", BBC reported. Forty-nine-year-old Karen Farquharson has accused Jim Clark, the 72-year-old founder of her engineering company Thistle Marine of asking her to "just get on with…
INDIAN prime minister Narendra Modi on Monday (2) paid tribute to iconic Indian freedom fighter and peace leader Mahatma Gandhi on the occasion of his 154th birth anniversary. In a post on X, the prime minister, who hails from the western state of Gujarat as did Gandhi, said Bapu's timeless…
SEVENTEENTH century Indian king Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj's legendary 'wagh nakh' (tiger claws), a lethal weapon that he used to injure general Afzhal Khan of the Bijapur Sultanate in 1659, is set for an India visit from the UK in November. The development comes in the year marking the 350th year…
INDIA continued their dominance in hockey at the ongoing Asian Games 2023 on Saturday (30) when they hammered arch-rivals and eight-time gold winners Pakistan 10-2 in a Pool A match to book a spot in the semi-finals with a match to go. The win in hockey came on a field…
VETERAN Indian tennis star Rohan Bopanna showed he is yet not a spent force as the 43-year-old paired with Rutuja Bhosale to give India the gold medal in mixed doubles in tennis at the ongoing Asian Games 2023 in Hangzhou in China on Saturday (30). They beat Taiwan's Tsung-hao Huang…
THREE merchant bankers on Friday (29) said Vedanta Ltd, a subsidiary of Vedanta Resources in India, secured Rs 25 billion (£246.4 million) through the sale of 18-month maturity bonds at significantly elevated interest rates, Reuters reported. According to the bankers, the company will offer a coupon of 12 per cent,…
INDIAN external affairs minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar on Friday (29) broke silence on New Delhi suspending issuing visas to Canadian citizens in the wake of a diplomatic spat between his government with that of Canada over the murder of a Khalistan terrorist leader in British Columbia in June. Canadian prime minister…
PAKISTAN'S Mohammed Rizwan hit an impressive century inside an eerily empty stadium on Friday but his team suffered a heavy defeat to New Zealand in their World Cup warm-up fixture. Pakistan went down to a five-wicket loss to the Black Caps at the 55,000-capacity Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium. The game,…
