- Wednesday, March 12, 2025
THE US House of Representatives has passed by voice vote a legislative amendment that approves waiver to India against the punitive CAATSA sanctions for its purchase of the S-400 missile defence system from Russia to help deter aggressors like China. The legislative amendment was passed on Thursday as part of…
HE is often compared with his senior fellow cricketer from India. A few days ago, Pakistan captain Babar Azam even went on to break former India captain Virat Kohli's record of staying at the top of world batters in T20 cricket for the longest period of time. And now, the…
SRI LANKAN prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe on Friday (15) took oath as the acting president of the crisis-ravaged island-nation after Gotabaya Rajapaksa resigned via email from Singapore on Thursday (14). The latter's resignation was accepted by the speaker of the Lankan parliament, Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana, AFP reported. "Gotabaya has legally…
BASEBALL is America's national pastime, but in New York, a cricket club is celebrating 150 years not out thanks to the city's large immigrant communities. Staten Island Cricket Club (SICC) is the oldest continuously active cricket club in the United States, with matches played there every year since it was…
WHILE India is generally obsessed with its prime minister Narendra Modi in these times, another Modi -- a less discussed one over the past many years -- stole the headlines on Thursday (14) by announcing that he is dating actor model-turned-actor Sushmita Sen, a former Miss Universe. Modi, a former…
AN acquitted suspect in the 1985 Air India bombings that killed 331 people was shot dead Thursday (14) in an apparent targeted shooting in westernmost Canada, local media reported. Ripudaman Singh Malik, a one-time supporter of the Sikh separatist Khalistan movement who was in 2005 acquitted in the Air India…
REECE Topley took 6-24, the best figures by any England bowler in a one-day international, as the world champions bounced back to beat India by 100 runs at Lord's on Thursday. India, chasing 247 to win, were dismissed for 146 with more than 11 overs to spare as England, two…
JUST days after its inauguration, the LuLu Mall in Lucknow, the capital of northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh and one of the most religiously polarised, has courted a controversy. Videos have surfaced on social media showing people from the country's minority Muslim community offering prayers (namaz) inside the mall's…
AMID reports that the US consulate general in Mumbai has urged the Mumbai Port Authority not to allow Russian vessels to call at the port, India's ministry of external affairs (MEA) on Thursday (14) said the relevant embassy has been advised that the appropriate channel for any such diplomatic communication…
SRI LANKAN president Gotabaya Rajapaksa submitted his resignation Thursday (14) shortly after reaching Singapore, the parliamentary speaker's office said, days after the head of state fled protests triggered by his country's worst-ever economic crisis. Gotabaya Rajapaksa resigned by email, the speaker's spokesman said hours after he landed in the city-state,…
