- Thursday, February 27, 2025
PAKISTAN has decided to send its national cricket team to India for this year's 50-over cricket world cup after a lot of deliberations. The country's foreign office on Sunday (6) said in a statement that Pakistan has "consistently maintained that sports should not be mixed with politics". "It has, therefore,…
LOVE for the game of cricket is not something new in South Asia but the recent act by Scottish cricketer Alex Steele perhaps beats every other tale of cricketing passion. And he did it at the age of 83! The veteran, who has played 14 first-class matches in Scotland and…
IN a sensational revelation, an investigation carried out by The New York Times has said that Neville Roy Singham, a US-born millionaire, has been accused of funding a financial network to push Chinese propaganda globally. The charismatic 69-year-old business, who according to the Times, is known as a socialist benefactor…
HE was seen as a rising star of racing but destiny had a cruel plan for Copparam Shreyas Hareesh as the boy who was in his early teens died in a crash during the third round of the FMSCI-Indian National Motorcycle Racing Championship at the Madras International Circuit in the…
A BRILLIANT 67 from Nicholas Pooran eclipsed a maiden international half-cnetury from Tilak Varma as West Indies edged their way to a dramatic two-wicket win over India in the second T20I against West Indies in Guyana on Sunday. India struggled to 152-7 after winning the toss and batting first and,…
RAHUL Gandhi, one of India's major opposition faces, was on Monday (7) reinstated to the country's parliament after the apex court put a stay on his conviction in a criminal defamation case over a controversial remark on the 'Modi surname' in a dig at prime minister Narendra Modi at an…
THE chief executive of Air India, Campbell Wilson, has held discussions with India's antitrust head on its upcoming merger with Vistara, a sister airline, weeks after the watchdog raised concerns over the combined entity's market power, informed sources told Reuters. The Competition Commission of India (CCI) has been looking into…
FRESH violence erupted in the north-eastern Indian state of Manipur on Saturday (5) morning resulting in the deaths of three unarmed villagers, including a father-son duo, prompting the state's chief minister's son-in-law slammed the central forces alleging a lapse in security. According to local witnesses and police sources, the murders…
FORMER Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan was on Saturday (5) arrested after a court sentenced him to three years in jail in connection to a corruption case. The trial court in Islamabad also barred the crcicketer-turned-politician from participating in active politics for five years. An arrest warrant was also issued…
FORMER chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir Mehbooba Mufti on Saturday (5) said she and some senior leaders of her Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) were put under house arrest while several others were detained on the fourth occasion of the abrogation of Article 370 of the Indian Constitution that accorded…
