- Thursday, March 06, 2025
Alex Hales and Jos Buttler hammered brilliant unbeaten half-centuries as England crushed India by 10 wickets on Thursday to set up a Twenty20 World Cup final with Pakistan. Chasing 169 for victory in the second semi-final in Adelaide, Hales smashed seven sixes in his 86 and Buttler, who made 80,…
Developing countries require substantive enhancement in climate finance from the floor of $100 billion per year to meet their ambitious goals and rich countries need to lead the mobilisation of resources, India has stressed at the ongoing UN climate summit COP27. At COP15 in Copenhagen in 2009, developed countries had…
US secretary of commerce Gina Raimondo and Indian commerce and industry minister Piyush Goyal have officially launched the US-India CEO Forum to bring together top-level business executives and discuss ways to strengthen economic and commercial ties between the two countries. They were joined by Forum's Private Sector co-chairs James Taiclet…
UK prime minister Rishi Sunak on Thursday (10) hosts his Irish counterpart Micheal Martin, with renewed focus on talks to end a dispute over post-Brexit trade in Northern Ireland. The two leaders meet with signs that frosty ties are thawing over the issue that has paralysed politics in Northern Ireland…
Eight Indians were among the 11 people who died in a fire incident at a garage in M. Nirufehige in the Maldives, early Thursday (10), the country's AVAS reported. Police received reports regarding the incident at 12:17 am (local time) while Maldives National Defence Force (MNDF) was informed regarding the…
Here are news in brief related to Indian economy and business for Wednesday, November 9, 2022: The Indian finance ministry has finalised the framework to issue sovereign green bonds in line with global standards, according to sources, Press Trust of India reported. The government intends to mobilise Rs 16,000 crore…
The use of lotus, the flower which is the symbol of India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the logo for the country's G20 presidency beginning next month has been slammed by the opposition Indian National Congress which has accused the saffron party of prime minister Narendra Modi of promoting…
The Allahabad High Court on Wednesday (9) dismissed a plea challenging the acquittal of 32 accused including India's former deputy prime minister Lal Krishna Advani in the Babri mosque demolition case, saying the appellants have no locus standi in the matter. A Lucknow bench of justices Ramesh Sinha and Saroj…
India is all set to surpass Japan and Germany to become the world's third-largest economy in another five years, a report by Morgan Stanley has said. The South Asian economy is also on track to have the largest stock market by 2030 following key investments in fields such as technology…
Former FIFA president Sepp Blatter says the decision to award the 2022 World Cup finals to Qatar was a "mistake". In 2010, FIFA's executive committee voted 14-8 for Qatar to host the tournament ahead of the United States. "It was a mistake," Blatter said in an interview with AFP's German…
