- Thursday, February 27, 2025
FOR the first time ever, men's and women's cricket rights will be sold separately for the Indian market by International Cricket Council (ICC). The prospective partners of the apex cricketing body can bid for 16 Men's events (over 8 years) and six Women's events (over 4 years), totalling 362 and…
THE Nepal government is contemplating shifting the base camp of Mount Everest as global warming and human activity are making the current location unsafe, a senior official said here on Friday. The current base camp, situated at an altitude of 5,364-metre on the Khumbu glacier where over 1,500 people gather…
GEERT Wilders, the right-wing politician from the Netherlands who backed now suspended Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Nupur Sharma over her controversial remarks on Prophet Muhammad, have now taken on the US for condemning the remarks. The 58-year-old Party for Freedom leader, who has been openly supporting Sharma since a…
BIG Tech's play in lending activities using customer data and sophisticated algorithms can lead to "systemic concerns" like over-leverage and inadequate quality assessment of borrowers, Reserve Bank governor Shaktikanta Das said on Friday (17). Entry of firms like Google, Amazon and Meta, which are referred to as Big Tech, also…
ENGLAND hit a world record one-day international score of 498-4 against the Netherlands in Amstelveen on Friday (17), with three men scoring centuries in the run blitz. Eoin Morgan's side beat their own mark of 481-6 set against Australia at Trent Bridge in 2018, in the first match of the…
HE is engaged in a profession that commands a social respect and he is from a country where the public sector is considered inefficient most of the time. Ajay Kumar Jadhav wants to break the established beliefs with his influence. Jadhav, a junior civil judge from Nizamabad in the southern…
INDIAN budget carrier SpiceJet Ltd said on Thursday (16) fares need to be raised as much as 15 per cent to counter high fuel costs and a weak rupee which have lifted operating costs to unsustainable levels. Both factors have left domestic airlines with "little choice but to immediately raise…
INDIA'S Reliance Industries is mulling buying out American cosmetics giant Revlon, days after the latter filed for bankruptcy, ET Now on Friday (17) cited sources to report. Revlon filed for bankruptcy earlier this week as disruptions in the global supply chain raised costs of raw materials and vendors sought upfront…
THE Indian Army will formally kick-start the process for recruitment under the Agnipath scheme within two days by coming out with an initial notification for the enrolment, senior military officials said on Friday (17). After issuance of the initial notification, various agencies and establishments of the Army will subsequently come…
BRITAIN on Friday (17) approved a US government request to extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to face trial over the publication of secret military files, prompting outrage from his supporters. Home Secretary Priti Patel's interior ministry said Assange had 14 days to appeal the decision, which comes after a UK…
