- Sunday, March 09, 2025
Jay Shah, the secretary of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), on Tuesday (18) poured cold water on the speculation that the Indian cricket team might travel to Pakistan to play the Asia Cup in 2023. Shah, whose second term as the secretary began the same day,…
Former India all-rounder Roger Binny, who was a member of India's first-ever World Cup-winning squad in 1983, took over as the 36th president of the Indian cricket board, also called the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). The change of guard happened when the national team is in…
Embattled UK Prime Minister Liz Truss on Monday (18) apologised for going "too far too fast" with reforms that triggered economic turmoil, but vowed to remain leader despite a series of humiliating climbdowns. "I do want to accept responsibility and say sorry for the mistakes that have been made... we…
The government of Bangladesh has denied permission to Nora Fatehi, an actor from the Bollywood film industry in neighbouring India, to perform at an event in national capital Dhaka in order to save dollars as part of austerity measures. According to a report by Bloomberg, the 30-year-old Canadian-born actor was…
UN secretary general Antonio Guterres has said that he fully supports Indian prime minister Narendra Modi's remark to Russian president Vladimir Putin that this is "not an era of war", emphasising that all efforts towards creating conditions for a solution to the Ukraine conflict under the United Nations (UN) Charter…
Seven people, including a pilot, were killed after the helicopter in which they were travelling crashed near Kedarnath shrine in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand on Tuesday (18). The tragedy took place in Garud Chatti, located around two kilometres from Kedarnath. The ill-fated Bell 407 helicopter (VT-RPN) aircraft took…
Here are news in brief related to Indian politics for Monday, October 17, 2022: Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray on Monday thanked state's deputy chief minister Devendra Fadnavis for the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) decision to withdraw its candidate from the bypoll to Andheri East Assembly seat…
Former Infosys president Ravi Kumar S, who stepped down from the information technology (IT) giant last week, is set to join Cognizant on January 16, 2023, as the president of Cognizant Americas. In a filing with the stock exchanges last week, Infosys said, "The board of directors placed on record…
Here are news in brief related to Indian economy and business for Monday, October 17, 2022: Indian telecom service provider Reliance Jio has chosen Nokia as a major supplier, the Finnish telecom equipment maker said on Monday, as India's biggest mobile carrier gears up to expand next-generation wireless services across…
UN secretary general Antonio Guterres will be on a three-day visit to India starting Tuesday (18), during which he will pay tributes to the victims of the 26/11 terror attacks at the Taj Mahal Palace hotel in Mumbai, besides holding talks with his Indian interlocutors. It will be the first…
