- Monday, February 24, 2025
THE police in the western Indian city of Pune have arrested the father of a 17-year-old boy, whose racing luxury vehicle crashed into a motorcycle killing two persons early on Sunday (19), from Aurangabad in the western state of Maharashtra. The father of the accused is a real-estate developer. Some…
THE two highest-priced players in the IPL -- Australia teammates Pat Cummins and Mitchell Starc -- will go head-to-head Tuesday (21)for a place in the final as the cash-rich Twenty20 league enters the playoffs. Sunrisers Hyderabad skipper Cummins cost $2.5 million at auction, a record which stood briefly until Kolkata…
SAMBIT Patra, national spokesperson of India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), has found himself at the centre of a controversy again. The leader, who is contesting this year's parliamentary elections from Puri in the eastern state of Odisha, recently called Lord Jagannath, a revered deity in the holy town from…
AS the fifth phase of India's national elections went underway on Monday (20), prime minister Narendra Modi in an interview to a television channel said the Indian stock markets will break all previous records on June 4, the day results of the ongoing elections come out. Downplaying the reported nervousness…
INDIAN prime minister Narendra Modi on Monday (20) condoled the death of Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi in a helicopter crash saying the latter's contribution to strengthening the two nations' bilateral relationship will always be remembered. Raisi, 63, was killed along with some senior officials, including Iranian foreign minister Hossein Amir-abdollahian…
AVIATOR Gopi Thotakura has said that he is proud to become the first Indian to venture into space as a tourist aboard Amazon founder Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin's NS-25 mission. Blue Origin's seventh human flight carrying Thotakura, 30, and five others lifted off from Launch Site One in West Texas…
HOURS before Ebrahim Raisi, the president of Iran, perished in a helicopter crash in a mountainous and forested region of his country after returning from an official visit to the border of the neighbouring country of Azerbaijan, he was seen sitting by the side of a window in the aircraft…
A NUMBER of prominent Indian citizens were seen casting ballots in Mumbai, India's financial capital as well as the centre of the country's Hindi film industry, on Monday (20) as the fifth phase of the general elections was held. Among those who were seen in the polling queues in various…
INDIAN prime minister Narendra Modi on Monday (20) condoled the death of Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi in a helicopter crash in his country saying he was "deeply saddened and shocked". In a post on X, he also said that Raisi had made significant contributions towards strengthening India-Iran bilateral relationship and…
THE league phase of the 17th edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL) came to a conclusion on Sunday (19) and the positions of the top four teams were confirmed at the end of the fixtures. The final day had a double-header one of which was washed out by rain,…
