- Wednesday, March 12, 2025
TATA Communications on Wednesday (20) posted an increase of 83.63 per cent in consolidated profit to Rs 543.76 crore (£56.6 million) in the June quarter. The company had reported a profit of Rs 296.11 crore (£30.8 million) in the same period a year ago, it said in a regulatory filing.…
RANIL Wickremesinghe, a veteran political leader of Sri Lanka, was on Wednesday (20) elected as the ninth president of the crisis-ravaged nation by its parliament, succeeding Gotabaya Rajapaksa who fled last week after protests across the country took a extreme form. Wickremesinghe, 73, was the prime minister of Sri Lanka…
THE Gujarat Police arrested filmmaker Avinash Das on Wednesday (20) in a case related to sharing on Twitter a photo of Indian home minister Amit Shah with arrested Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer Pooja Singhal, an official said. A team of the Ahmedabad Crime Branch detained Das from his residence…
WHEN umbrellas come out in an open sporting venue during the summer, one would blindly and accurately guess that it could be mostly in the Indian subcontinent. Overseas players are often found taking special measures to keep themselves hydrated in that part of the world, like by consuming energising liquids…
A MAJOR diplomatic row has erupted between Russia and the UK over the death of Paul Urey, a British aid worker who was held by Russian-backed separatists in Ukraine, in detention. While British foreign secretary Liz Truss said Moscow must bear full responsibility for the 45-year-old man's death and the…
INDIA was left shocked to learn on Wednesday (20) about yet another incident of a cargo vehicle mowing down a police officer -- the third inside 24 hours! In the latest tragedy that happened in Borsad in the western state of Gujarat, Raj Kiran, a police constable, tried to stop…
BORIS Johnson, the outgoing premier of the UK who chaired his final cabinet meeting on Tuesday (19), faced more criticism after he shot a selfie video of himself flying a RAF (Royal Air Force) Typhoon fighter jet. 10 Downing Street, the British prime minister's official YouTube channel, released a video…
INDIA on Wednesday (20) underlined that it does not interfere in the internal affairs and democratic processes of another country, while terming as "baseless" and "purely speculative" the media reports on influencing Sri Lankan leaders at political level in the presidential election in the island-nation which has been hit by…
ACE England all-rounder Ben Stokes, who announced a shock retirement from one-day international (ODI) cricket this week, was visibly emotional while he came out to field in his last 50-over assignment at Chester-le-Street against South Africa on Tuesday (19). The 31-year-old, who has recently been made the captain of the…
TOP Indian sprinter S Dhanalakshmi has been ruled out of the upcoming Commonwealth Games (CWG) in Birmingham starting later this month after failing a dope test while national record holder triple jumper Aishwarya Babu has also tested positive for a banned substance, sources said on Wednesday (20). The 24-year-old Dhanalakshmi,…
