- Thursday, March 06, 2025
Police used water cannon and teargas after coming under attack from football supporters who brought havoc to the centre of Brussels on Sunday (27) following Morocco's shock 2-0 World Cup win over Belgium in Qatar. Dozens of fans smashed shop windows, threw fireworks and torched vehicles. https://twitter.com/IamOwolewa/status/1596983149980176384 Police said that…
After the Maldives, Australia on Sunday (27) clarified that it did not participate in the China-Indian Ocean Forum on Development Cooperation held last Monday (21). Nineteen nations, excluding India, reportedly took part in the event. "Contrary to media reporting, no Australian Government official attended the Kunming China-Indian Ocean Forum on…
In a chilling resemblance to the Shraddha Walkar murder case in Delhi, the capital's police on Monday (28) arrested a woman and her son allegedly for killing her husband and chopping his body into pieces and then storing the bits in a refrigerator. Police said that the man killed his…
Lionel Messi reignited Argentina's World Cup challenge with a superb goal in a 2-0 win over Mexico on Saturday as Kylian Mbappe's double fired France into the last 16. Rocked by a stunning upset defeat against Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, Argentina faced Mexico knowing that a defeat would send them…
Egypt's president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi is likely to be the chief guest for the Republic Day celebrations here next year. India's external affairs minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar is learnt to have extended the formal invitation to el-Sisi during an official visit to Cairo last month. This would be the first time…
China held a meeting this week with 19 countries from the Indian Ocean region in which India was conspicuously absent. The China International Development Cooperation Agency (CIDCA), an organisation connected with the Chinese foreign ministry held a meeting of the China-Indian Ocean Region Forum on Development Cooperation on November 21,…
The startup behind India's first private space launch plans to put a satellite into orbit in 2023 and expects to be able to do so at half of the cost of established launch companies, the founders of Skyroot Aerospace told Reuters in an interview. The Hyderabad-based company, backed by Singapore's…
Australia won a World Cup game for only the third time in their history with a dogged 1-0 victory over Tunisia on Saturday to revive their last-16 hopes. Striker Mitch Duke scored the only goal of a tight game with a clever header in the first half and Australia then…
Protesters from a fishing community blocked attempts by India's Adani Group to restart work on a $900 million (£744 million) transhipment port in south India, a company spokesperson said on Saturday, prolonging a deadlock that has stalled the port's development. Construction at Adani's Vizhinjam seaport in Kerala state on the…
A Muslim body in Kerala on Friday (26) came out against soccer-crazy youth in the state, who have erected cutouts of star-players in support of their teams participating in the ongoing World Cup in Qatar by saying worshipping football celebrities is against Islam and urged them to not wave flags…
