- Thursday, March 06, 2025
Cash-strapped Pakistan has averted a default on its repayment of $1 billion (£813.5 million) against a matured international Sukuk (Sharia-compliant bond) three days ahead of schedule on Friday (2). The Express Tribune reported on Saturday (3) that as per the actual schedule, the country was to return the maturing investment…
The recent row over an Israeli filmmaker's remarks on Indian film 'The Kashmir Files' at an international film festival in Goa in the South Asian nation has seen an ugly fallout on Saturday (3) when the ambassador of Israel to India posted a message that he had received on his…
In a horrific incident, a bus rammed into several vehicles, causing a couple of deaths and many injuries, after its driver collapsed due to a heart attack while on duty. The incident happened in Jabalpur in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh on Thursday (1). https://twitter.com/ManojSharmaBpl/status/1598684438812307456 A video of…
The group stage of the FIFA World Cup in Qatar concluded on Friday (2) with 16 teams advancing from eight groups to the pre-quarter finals. There were quite a few upsets and top teams such as Germany and Belgium failed to make it beyond the preliminary stage. Teams from Asia…
Pakistan has summoned Afghanistan's Charge d'Affaires in Islamabad and conveyed to him its deep concern over the attack on the country's Head of Mission in Kabul, it emerged on Saturday (3). Ubaid-ur-Rehman Nizamani survived an attack on Pakistan's embassy in Kabul on Friday (2), drawing immediate condemnation and a demand…
The Indian Navy has given assurances to the government that it will become 'Atmanirbhar' (self-reliant) by 2047, Chief of Naval Staff Admiral R Hari Kumar said on Saturday (3). Addressing a press conference ahead of the Navy Day on Sunday (4), he also said the navy keeps a strong vigil…
Senior India fast bowler Mohammed Shami has been ruled out of the upcoming one-day international (ODI) series against Bangladesh, starting Sunday (4), due to a right shoulder injury and replaced by Umran Malik in India's squad, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) announced on Saturday (3). It…
Two Indian American Congressmen Ro Khanna and Vijaya Gadde prominently figure in US president Joe Biden's son Hunter Biden's laptop story whose full disclosure Twitter CEO Elon Musk has announced would be released on the microblogging site. Musk, the world's richest man who purchased Twitter last month, said on Friday…
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) "fully supports" the G20 agenda of India, which is planning to use the ongoing global crises as an opportunity to seek consensus on issues that require urgent attention, a senior official from the international financial body has said. India formally assumed the G20 presidency on…
"India is a part of me and I carry it with me wherever I go," Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai said, as he received the prestigious Padma Bhushan award from the Indian envoy to the US. Indian-American Pichai was awarded the Padma Bhushan for 2022 in the trade and…
