• Friday, March 07, 2025

T20 World Cup: Why Pakistan match hero Virat Kohli thought…

Ace India batter Virat Kohli played one of the best knocks ever at the Melbourne Cricket Ground against arch-rivals Pakistan in his team's opening match of the ongoing T20 World Cup by belting 82 not out in only 53 balls. The 33-year-old led the Indian chase of a tricky target…

In 2nd anti-trust penalty in October, India fines Google $99m

Alphabet Inc's Google was fined 9.36 billion Indian rupees ($113.04 million or 99.4 million) on Tuesday (25) as India concluded yet another anti-trust probe this month, finding the US tech giant guilty of abusing its market position to promote its payments app and in-app payment system. The Competition Commission of…

WhatsApp back online after global outage hits users; Meta tightlipped…

Messaging app WhatsApp was starting to come back online at 0900 GMT and the company said the issue has been fixed after users across the world reported problems earlier on Tuesday (25). At around 0750 GMT, outage reporting site Downdetector had shown over 68,000 users had reported problems with the…

Months after taking first bath in several decades, world’s ‘dirtiest…

An Iranian man nicknamed the "dirtiest man in the world" for not taking a shower for decades has died at the age of 94, state media reported on Tuesday (25). Amou Haji, who did not wash for more than half a century and was single, died on Sunday (23) in…

In a first, India to export green energy to Singapore…

India will for the first-time export green energy from 2025, with the first shipments going to a Singapore power plant under a memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed by an India-based dispatchable renewables company and Singapore's energy business in Singapore on Tuesday (25). The MoU to explore opportunities in green hydrogen…

How PM Sunak’s rise has divided India’s top opposition Indian…

The Indian National Congress, one of the major opposition parties in India, said the country does not need to take lessons from any other nation as many of its leaders in the past, including the likes of the president and chief minister, came from minority communities. The remark was seen…

Prada and pools: Rishi Sunak’s mega-wealthy wife and in-laws

Akshata Murty, the Indian wife of Britain's next prime minister Rishi Sunak, is fabulously rich thanks to her billionaire father, a fortune that is attracting controversy as ordinary people reel from a cost-of-living crisis. Sunak's father-in-law, N.R. Narayana Murthy, 76, co-founded tech giant Infosys in 1981. The outsourcing behemoth now…

Hopes over India-UK FTA renewed as Rishi Sunak takes over…

As Rishi Sunak takes over as Britain's first Indian-origin prime minister on Tuesday (25), there is renewed hope that the India-UK free trade agreement (FTA) will get a much-needed impetus after the Diwali deadline for draft completion was missed amid political turmoil in the UK. While the October timeline was…

WATCH: Modi spends lively Diwali with armed forces in Kargil,…

Indian prime minister Narendra Modi on Monday (24) spent time with his country's army personnel in Kargil located close to the Line of Control with Pakistan as part of the Diwali itinerary. He was also seen singing along to National Song 'Vande Mataram' and chanting 'Bharat Mata Ki Jai' as…

Saudi leader Mohammed bin Salman’s Nov 14 visit to India:…

Saudi crown prince and the newly appointed prime minister of the Kingdom, Mohammed bin Salman, is expected to be in New Delhi for a day's visit on November 14. He will meet Indian prime minister Narendra Modi, external affairs minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, and national security advisor Ajit Doval, before heading…