• Sunday, February 23, 2025

Austria coach rues team’s Euro exit after 1-2 loss vs…

AUSTRIA coach Ralf Rangnick bemoaned his side's fortune in bowing out of Euro 2024 on Tuesday following a 2-1 loss to Turkey, as he hit out at the boring football played by other sides at the tournament. Rangnick's men had emerged as potential dark horses after topping a group containing…

Fight against terror in Kashmir in last stage: Modi in…

INDIAN prime minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday (3) asserted in the parliament that the fight against terrorism in the northern Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir is in its last stage, and a multi-pronged strategy has been adopted to destroy the remaining terror network. Speaking in the Rajya Sabha or…

India picks new point person to handle Gulf affairs

INDIAN external affairs minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar has picked Kirti Vardhan Singh, a minister of state for external affairs, as the new point person for the Gulf region, WAM reported. The development came days after India's new council of ministers took oath to the Lok Sabha or the Lower House of…

Team India’s victory parade in Mumbai with T20 World Cup…

INDIA T20 World Cup 24 winning captain Rohit Sharma on Wednesday (3) shared a message for the Indian cricket fans in which he invited them to take part in a victory parade at Marine Drive and Wankhede Stadium in the western city of Mumbai to celebrate the recent World Cup…

Sunak’s in-law Sudha Murty speaks on women health in India…

INDIAN prime minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday (3) praised Sudha Murty, a renowned philanthropist, educator and author and the mother-in-law of British prime minister Rishi Sunak after she gave her maiden speech in Rajya Sabha or the Upper House of the Indian parliament as an MP. Speaking during a discussion…

Jaishankar raises Indian nationals’ safety in talks with Russian counterpart…

INDIA'S external affairs minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar on Wednesday (3) strongly raised the issue of Indian nationals fighting for the Russian Army in the war zone and pressed for their safe return during a meeting with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov in Astana in Kazakhstan. Jaishankar arrived in the central Asian…

UK’s ties with Modi’s India may see ‘acche din’ if…

JULY 4, 2024, for the UK could be what May 16, 2014, was for India. It was on the day in May a decade ago that incumbent prime minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had toppled the government of Manmohan Singh, which was in a shambles at that moment.…

As UK goes to polls on July 4, here are…

HERE are some key issues at stake in the UK general election on Thursday: - Will jaded voters turn out? - The main opposition Labour party is widely predicted to win and has been determined not to take any risks, making for a lacklustre election campaign. For the past two…

Special Air India plane to fly stranded Indian cricket team…

IT'S been four days since India won the T20 World Cup crown in the Caribbeans but the cricketers have not been able to return home yet due to extreme weather conditions in Barbados and adjoining areas that were battered by Hurricane Beryl. The departure of the squad, some officials of…

India stampede: People fell while trying to seek missing godman’s…

PEOPLE fell on each other as they tried to touch the feet of a godman at a 'satsang' (prayer meeting), resulting in a massive stampede tragedy that killed 121 people, including women and children, in Hathras in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday (2), according to an…