- Wednesday, March 12, 2025
Nitish Kumar was sworn in as the chief minister of Bihar for the eighth time at the Patna Raj Bhavan on Wednesday (10). This came a day after a huge political turmoil in the state, after which he broke the alliance of Janata Dal-United (JD-U) with the Bharatiya Janata Party…
Lisa Keightley is to leave her role as coach of the England women's team at the end of the home season, the England and Wales Cricket Board announced on Tuesday. An ECB statement said the former Australia international, 50, had informed the board she would not be seeking a contract…
Fellow umpires and former players paid tribute on Tuesday (9) to former South African umpire Rudi Koertzen, who died in a car accident the same morning. Koertzen, 73, was known as ‘Slow Death’ because of the time it took for him to raise a finger to indicate a batsman’s dismissal.…
Seasoned politician Nitish Kumar, a mercurial leader from the eastern Indian state of Bihar, took oath as its chief minister for the record eighth time on Wednesday (10) after he called off his alliance with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of prime minister Narendra Modi and joining back the Rashtriya…
The Supreme Court of India on Wednesday (10) granted regular bail to activist and poet P Varavara Rao, who was accused in the 2018 Bhima Koregaon violence case. Rao has been granted bail on medical grounds. He was arrested on August 28, 2018, from his home in Hyderabad in the…
US journalist Maggie Haberman has claimed that Donald Trump, the country's former president, would flush important documents down the toilet during his tenure at the White House that lasted from 2017 to 2021. US channel CNN on Monday (8) came up with pictures suggesting two documents, allegedly in the mercurial…
On the occasion of World Biofuel Day on Wednesday (10), Indian prime minister Narendra Modi will dedicate the second generation (2G) Ethanol Plant in Panipat in the northern state of Haryana to the nation at 4:30 pm local time the same day via video-conferencing. According to the prime minister's office…
Here are some news in brief related to Indian economy and business for Tuesday, August 9, 2022: Indian telecom operator Bharti Airtel will start rolling out 5G services in August and cover all towns and key rural areas of the country by March 2024, a senior company official said on…
'Murasoli', the mouthpiece of Dravid Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), the ruling party of the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, on Saturday (6) slammed India's finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman over her "your Tamil Nadu" comment made in the Indian parliament last week. Sitharaman, a member of the Rajya Sabha or Upper…
Here are news in brief related to India's politics for Tuesday, August 9, 2022: Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar on Tuesday ended his five-year alliance with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of prime minister Narendra Modi to go back to 'secular' parties such as Rashtriya Janata Dal. He was set…
