- Tuesday, March 11, 2025
Devendra Fadnavis, the deputy chief minister of the western Indian state of Maharashtra, on Thursday (18) assured the state's assembly saying the boat found with some semi-automatic weapons in it off the coast in Raigad, located about 200 kilometres from the country's financial capital Mumbai, belonged to an Australian woman.…
For the football experts, the Premier League always had something to offer but the tournament now has also drawn the financial pundits. Why? New figures from Deloitte said combined revenues from the league had gone up to £4.9 billion in the first full season played after the outbreak of the…
India and Thailand reviewed the progress made in areas of defence and security, trade, connectivity, tourism and people-to-people ties during the visit of Indian external affairs minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar's to Bangkok, the capital of the South-east Asian nation. India's ministry of external affairs (MEA) said this on Thursday (18), a…
While former chief ministers of erstwhile state Jammu and Kashmir such as Omar Abdullah and Mehbooba Mufti have slammed the election officials' decision that the union territory is likely to have 25 lakh (2.5 million) new voters in the next election with non-local people registering to cast ballot for the…
British businessman Jim Ratcliffe is "definitely a potential buyer" of Manchester United if the English football giants go on sale, a spokesman for the Ineos petrochemicals billionaire said Wednesday. Ineos was responding to reports United's current owners, the US-based Glazer family, are considering selling a minority stake, with the team…
Indian road transport minister Nitin Gadkari on Thursday (18) launched the country's first electric double decker bus in Mumbai, the capital of the western state of Maharashtra and also India's financial capital. Gadkari tweeted about the event, which happened at Y.B. Chavan Centre at Mumbai's Nariman Point, saying, "It gives…
An explosion at a mosque in the north of the Afghan capital of Kabul killed 20 people and injured 40 more, media reports said. The blast reportedly took place in a mosque in the Khair Khana area during evening prayers. "As a result of an explosion in a mosque north…
Overlooked by high-rises on the outskirts of Hong Kong, a group of students practise body-slam tackles and vicious ankle-wrenches at weekly training for an unlikely sport: the ancient Indian game of kabaddi. Though its professional league has a huge following in India and surrounding nations, kabaddi -- a highly physical…
Former India captain Virat Kohli, who took his team to unprecedented heights, says he has struggled with his mental health throughout his career, local media reported Thursday (18). The 33-year-old ex-captain built a reputation for in-your-face aggression and exemplary batting, leading his team to the top of the five-day rankings.…
Sri Lanka has granted provisional approval to Adani Green Energy for two wind projects of 286 MW and 234 MW for an investment of over $500 million in the country’s Northern province, its energy and power minister Kanchana Wijesekara announced on Wednesday (17). Wijesekara said in a tweet that he…
