• Thursday, March 06, 2025

T20 World Cup: England beat Sri Lanka to make semi-finals;…

Ben Stokes hit a gutsy unbeaten 42 as England made the Twenty20 World Cup semi-finals on Saturday with a tense four wicket win over Sri Lanka, ending the hopes of defending champions Australia whose title defence is now over. England needed to win to make the last four from Group…

Canada-based gangster takes responsibility for Hindu leader’s murder in Punjab:…

Lakhbir Singh Landa, a gangster from Canada, has taken the responsibility for the murder of Sudhir Suri, a leader of India's Shiv Sena political party, in Amritsar in the northern state of Punjab on Friday (4), according to a report in The Tribune. The report said Landa claimed responsibility in…

Former IPL teammate AB de Villiers sends special video message…

Ace India batter Virat Kohli turned 34 on Saturday (5) and as he celebrated the occasion in Australia where he is currently playing the T20 World Cup, former South Africa captain AB de Villiers came up with a special message for his former teammate in the Indian Premier League (IPL).…

Elon Musk justifies massive layoffs at Twitter: ‘No choice when…

Amid massive layoffs at Twitter across the world, including in India, and the subsequent backlash, the microblogging site's new owner Elon Musk on Saturday (5) justified the move, saying there was "no choice" when the company was losing millions of dollars daily. The company posted a net loss of $270…

US midterms: Five prominent Indian-Americans, including ‘Samosa Caucus’, in race…

Five prominent Indian-American politicians are in the race for the US House of Representatives when the country goes for its midterm polls on November 8. If the pollsters and opinions of political pundits are to be believed, Indian-Americans are likely to have a 100 per cent strike rate for the…

Shyam Saran Negi, India’s first voter, dies at 106 just…

India's first voter Shyam Saran Negi died on Saturday (5) morning at his residence in Kinnaur in the northern state of Himachal Pradesh. He was over 100 years old. On November 3, Negi had cast his vote through postal ballot for the state's assembly polls, the Election Commission of India…

India economy & business news in brief for Nov 4:…

Here are news in brief related to Indian economy and business for Friday, November 4, 2022: The majority of microblogging site Twitter’s 200 odd employees in India were sacked as part of new owner Elon Musk’s decision to lay off half of the company’s workforce across the world to cut…

T20 World Cup: Australia keep semifinal hopes alive as Afghans…

Glenn Maxwell hit an unbeaten half-century to keep Australia in the hunt for the semi-finals of the Twenty20 World Cup with a tense four-run win over Afghanistan on Friday. The hosts and defending champions now need arch-rivals England to lose their final Super 12 match against Sri Lanka on Saturday…

T20 World Cup: Can England make semifinals? Three Lions fans…

All eyes at the Twenty20 World Cup will fall on England against Sri Lanka on Saturday (5) after New Zealand booked their place in the semi-finals and Australia just about stayed alive. Hosts and holders Australia saw off a stubborn Afghanistan by four runs in Adelaide on Friday in their…

BYJU’S ropes in football maestro Lionel Messi as global brand…

Edtech major BYJU's has roped in football star Lionel "Leo" Messi as the first global brand ambassador of its social impact arm Education For All, the company said on Friday (4). Messi, who plays for Paris Saint-Germain and captains the Argentinian football team, has signed an agreement with BYJU'S to…