- Wednesday, March 12, 2025
INDIA have moved to the third spot, surpassing Pakistan in the International Cricket Council (ICC) one-day international (ODI) Team Rankings after their emphatic win in the first game of the three-match series against England at the Oval on Tuesday (12). India were placed fourth with 105 points before the fixture…
INDIAN industrialist Anand Mahindra is known for his humour-filled takes on social media platform Twitter. He even responds to his baiters in funny ways and that only adds more to his almost 10 million followers. On Tuesday (12), the Mahindra Group chairman once again showed his cheeky side on Twitter…
SRI LANKAN prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe was appointed to be acting president as incumbent Gotabaya Rajapaksa was overseas, the parliamentary Speaker announced Wednesday as thousands of protesters demanded both men step down. "Because of his absence from the country, president Rajapaksa told me that he has appointed the prime minister…
EMBATTLED Sri Lankan president Gotabaya Rajapaksa's escape from the country to the Maldives was negotiated by the latter's former president and the current speaker of its parliament, Mohamed Nasheed, sources told the Press Trust of India on Wednesday (13). Nasheed is considered a pro-Indian leader. The 73-year-old Rajapaksa fled to…
DAYS after an elaborate betting con, targeting Russian punters and involving farmers in a village in the western Indian state of Gujarat, was busted for organising a fake 'Indian Premier League'-like tournament, a syndicate with a similar modus operandi in Uttar Pradesh was uncovered with two accused landing in police…
SRI LANKA declared a state of emergency Wednesday (13) as thousands of people mobbed the prime minister's office after the country's president flew to the Maldives, following months of widespread protests against an economic crisis. President Gotabaya Rajapaksa had promised at the weekend to resign on Wednesday and clear the…
US PRESIDENT Joe Biden will host the first four-way virtual summit with Indian prime minister Narendra Modi, Israeli prime minister Yair Lapid and United Arab Emirates president Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan with a focus on food security during his visit to Israel this week, a top US official has…
SEASONED diplomat Pranay Verma is set to be appointed as India's new high commissioner to Bangladesh, considered an important posting in view of fast expanding bilateral ties. Verma, a 1994-batch Indian Foreign Service officer and currently serving as India's envoy to Vietnam, will succeed incumbent Vikram Doraiswami in Dhaka, people…
INDIAN business billionaire Gautam Adani, chairperson of the Adani Group, met French president Emmanuel Macron at Chateau Versailles on Tuesday (12) where they discussed global energy transition. One of the main purposes of the meeting was to talk over a new edge on energy requirement. Adani later tweeted about his…
INDIA carried forward their good show in the T20 international series against England into the one-day international series by thrashing the Three Lions by 10 wickets in the first match at the Oval on Tuesday (12). Nothing went wrong for the visitors in the game that lasted less than 44…
