- Thursday, February 27, 2025
BRANDON King's superb unbeaten 85 led West Indies to an eight-wicket win over India on Sunday to secure a 3-2 victory in their T20 series. Set a target of 166 to win the fifth and deciding contest, in Lauderhill, Florida, West Indies reached their target with two overs to spare…
AT LEAST 21 people reportedly died in two separate incidents related to heavy rain in the northern Indian state of Himachal Pradesh within 24 hours, its chief minister confirmed on Monday (14). While seven were killed in a cloudburst incident in Himachal's Solan district on Sunday (13) night, nine lost…
INDIAN minister of state for personnel, public grievances and pensions Jitendra Singh on Saturday (12) stressed on faster extradition of fugitive economic offenders and recovery of their assets, besides achieving a "corruption-free world" during the crucial G20 anti-graft ministerial meeting in Kolkata in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal.…
PAKISTANI senator Anwaarul-Haq Kakar was on Saturday (12) picked as the country's caretaker prime minister to govern at the time of financial woes and oversee general elections later this year. Outgoing prime minister Shehbaz Sharif and the opposition leader Raja Riaz finalised his name after two rounds of deliberations. Kakar,…
PRAKASH Ambedkar, president of Vanchit Bahujan Aaghadi (VBA) or Deprived Majority Front political party, has said that the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of prime minister Narendra Modi has deliberately fuelled ethnic violence in the north-eastern state of Manipur to fulfil a plan -- awarding a platinum mining contract in…
WHILE India remains a cricket-crazy country, excitement around the game is even rising as the 50-world cup approaches and recently, a man caught the eyes of social media for doing something special -- shattering a batter's stumps at will while bowling at the nets wearing a uniform. Not a cricketing…
INDIAN chief of army staff General Manoj Pande on Friday (11) represented King Charles III as the inspecting officer for the 201st Sovereign Parade held at the Royal Military Academy in Sandhurst. In a historic address as the first Indian to represent the King at the academy, General Pande said…
HOSTS India avenged their semi-final defeat in the 2021 Asian Champions Trophy against Japan when they hammered them 5-0 in yet another semi-final of the same tournament at Mayor Radhakrishnan Hockey Stadium in Chennai in the southern state of Tamil Nadu on Friday (11). Harmanpreet Singh's boys continued with their…
INDIAN external affairs minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar has said that the Narendra Modi government always works with the world while putting the nation's interests at its core. Speaking with Akashvani, India's national public radio broadcaster, in an exclusive interview on Saturday (12), he focused on India's shift from the non-alignment era…
HERE are news in brief related to Indian economy and business for Friday, August 11, 2023: India's industrial output growth rate fell to a three-month low of 3.7 per cent year-on-year in June, data from the statistics ministry showed on Friday. Analysts in a Reuters poll had forecast an expansion…
