- Wednesday, April 23, 2025
A DAY after his sudden decision to quit international cricket with immediate effect left millions of Bangladeshi cricket fans shocked, ace opening batter Tamim Iqbal withdrew his retirement following a reported intervention by the country's prime minister, Sheikh Hasina. On Thursday (6), Iqbal called a media conference in Chittagong, a…
AIRBUS made a major gain in the first half of 2023, thanks to a record demand placed from India. According to data revealed on Friday (7), the European aircraft giant saw a big leap in June to have 1,044 net orders in the year's first half, Reuters reported. Airbus officially…
INDIAN external affairs minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar on Friday (7) paid tribute to Indian soldiers cremated at the Commonwealth War Memorial in Dar-es-Salaam in Tanzania where he has gone for a four-day visit. Arriving in Tanzania after visiting Zanzibar for two days, the diplomat aimed to strengthen the bilateral relations between…
A WOMAN from the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu has requested the country's external affairs ministry to help her bring back the mortal remains of her husband who was recently murdered in Germany. In her petition, 23-year-old P Divya said her husband Prakash Panneerselvam, 33, was killed by a…
KERALA, India's only communist-ruled state and also the most literate, has come up with a unique plan to deal with poverty and prejudice and it doesn't require any major corporate backing. Everyday, volunteers from the Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI), the youth wing of the ruling Communist Party of…
INDIAN prime minister Narendra Modi on Friday (7) launched a scathing attack on the ruling Indian National Congress in the central state of Chhattisgarh, which is due to go to polls later this year, mocking the latter's efforts to stitch an opposition unity at the national level ahead of next…
JUST after over a month since the horrific three-train crash in Balasore district of the eastern Indian state of Odisha that killed nearly 300 people and injured more than 1,000, Indian Railways was witness to another potentially disastrous incident as two coaches of a passenger train caught fire on Friday…
A TOP leader of Indian National Congress on Friday (7) sharply reacted to the remark by US ambassador to India Eric Garcetti that his country is "ready to assist" the Narendra Modi government in restoring peace in the violence-hit northeastern state of Manipur even as he admitted that it was…
INDIAN National Congress leader Rahul Gandhi will remain disqualified as a parliamentarian after the high court of the western state of Gujarat on Friday (7) upheld a lower court's order in convicting him in a defamation case against the Modi surname. The conviction is "just, proper and legal," the court…
MITCHELL Marsh's run-a-ball 118 was the cornerstone of Australia's 263 all out on the first day of the third Ashes Test at Headingley on Thursday after the tourists collapsed either side of his blistering century. England fast bowler Mark Wood took 5-34 as the hosts backed up captain Ben Stokes'…
