- Sunday, April 27, 2025
Himself an epitome of resilience and longevity, India's head coach Rahul Dravid was all praise for senior batter Cheteshwar Pujara, who is set to complete a coveted milestone of 100 Tests during the second game against Australia, starting in Delhi on Friday (17). Pujara, who has spent 13 years in…
Akshata Murty, the wife of British prime minister Rishi Sunak, their two daughters and her mother Sudha Murty were spotted holidaying at Benaulim beach in the Indian state of Goa, about 40 km from state capital Panaji. A fisherman named Francis Fernandes, locally known as Pele, said he immediately identified…
With Republican Party's rising star Nikki Haley launching her US presidential campaign against her former boss Donald Trump for 2024, she joins a long list of Indian-origin leaders who are dominating politics at important world capitals. In the US, the growing influence of the Indian-American community can be seen in…
Indian foreign secretary Vinay Kwatra on Wednesday (15) held talks with his Bangladeshi counterpart Masud Bin Momen during which the two sides reviewed the entire gamut of bilateral partnership including security, defence, connectivity, water, power and sub-regional cooperation. He also met Bangladeshi prime minister Sheikh Hasina. Kwatra arrived in Dhaka,…
The US has said that it supports the importance of a free press, freedom of expression and freedom of religion as universal rights which are the "bedrock of democracies" around the world, including in India. The remarks by US state department spokesperson Ned Price came a day after the income-tax…
India have emerged as the top team in Tests in the International Cricket Council's (ICC) latest rankings after hammering Australia in the recently concluded first Test in Nagpur. The win saw Rohit Sharma's men reaching 115 ratings, four more than second-placed Australia. England were ranked third with 106 points but…
A doctor who is said to be Pakistan’s first Hindu woman civil servant has been appointed as the assistant commissioner and administrator in Hassan Abdal city of the country's Punjab province, according to media reports on Monday (13). Sana Ramchand Gulwani, 27, who grew up in Sindh province’s Shikarpur city,…
The North American Punjabi Association on Wednesday (15) raised "serious concern" over increasing incidents of gang wars and the recovery of sophisticated weapons in the northern Indian state of Punjab. Satnam Singh Chahal, executive director of the US-based organisation, said the arrest of gangsters and the seizure of sophisticated weapons…
The recent massive firing of professionals in the tech industry is a nightmare for those on H-1B visas, an Indian-American technology entrepreneur and academic has said, asserting that this can be addressed if US president Joe Biden issues an executive order to extend the grace period from them from 60…
Days after an 18-year-old first-year student reportedly committed suicide by jumping off the seventh floor of a hostel building on the Powai campus of India's prestigious Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay in Mumbai, was allegedly ostracised by his friends since he belonged to the Dalit caste, the lowest stratum…
