- Wednesday, February 26, 2025
PAKISTAN was witness to yet another horrific suicide blast on Friday (29) when at least 52 people were killed and more than 50 injured near Madina Mosque in the Mastung district of the country's restive south-western Balochistan province. The deceased included Mastung's deputy superintendent of police Nawaz Gashkori, who was…
IN a major development in the case related to the death of an Indian student after she was hit by a speeding police patrol car in Seattle in January this year, the officer from the city police who joked about the death of the 23-year-old student, has been pulled off…
THE police in the western Indian state of Gujarat have registered a first-information report (FIR) against Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, the chief of Sikhs for Justice (SFJ) for threatening to turn the upcoming cricket World Cup, starting on October 5 at the Narendra Modi stadium in Ahmedabad in the state, into…
WHILE all eyes were on the meeting between Indian external affairs minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar and US secretary of state Antony Blinken in Washington on Thursday (28) which took amid a massive diplomatic clash between the governments of Canada and India over the murder of Sikh separatist leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar…
THE 50-over cricket World Cup 2023 is set to kick off on October 5 when defending champions England take on last time's runners-up New Zealand in the opening game at Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad in the western Indian state of Gujarat. Ten teams will take part in the competition…
THE Canadian government is dealing with cyberattacks and a hacker group from India claimed it has caused a mess in Ottawa but the North American nation's signals-intelligence agency said the "nuisance" attacks are unlikely to have exposed private information, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) has reported. The report said that…
HERE are news in brief on Indian economy and business for Thursday, September 28, 2023: India has retained its 40th rank out of 132 economies in the Global Innovation Index (GII) 2023 rankings, according to a report by the Geneva-based World Intellectual Property Organisation. Indian government think tank NITI Aayog…
INDIA has made good progress in strengthening security measures in the past few years but scaling it further would save $159 billion (£130 billion) from laundering through illicit trade, a report said. According to a Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FICCI) CASCADE report, India has a Global…
THE steel ministry of India is keeping a close watch on the country's trade situation with Canada in the wake of a diplomatic row between New Delhi and Ottawa over the murder of a Sikh separatist leader in Surrey in British Columbia in June. India came up with an angry…
INDIA made a major last-minute change to their 15-member squad for the upcoming World Cup at home on Thursday (28) when veteran off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin was picked as the replacement for injured left-arm spinner-all-rounder Axar Parel. The latter, who sustained a left quadriceps strain during India's successful Asia Cup campaign…
