- Thursday, February 27, 2025
INDIAN tycoon Mukesh Ambani has seen off competition from global media giants to bag the rights to stream the IPL for $2.6 billion (£2.1 billion), a source at India's cricket board told AFP on Tuesday (14). Star India meanwhile, owned by US behemoth Disney, retained the television rights for the…
INDIAN National Congress leader Rahul Gandhi was on Monday (13) questioned for over nine hours by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in a money-laundering probe linked to the National Herald newspaper and was called to depose again on Tuesday (14), as his party leaders and workers protested across the country, alleging…
THE Indian defence ministry on Tuesday (14) unveiled a new defence recruitment model called the ‘Agnipath’. The move came after the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs and the Union cabinet met and approved the fresh proposal scheme for the country’s armed forces. The chief of one of India's three armed…
CHINA on Monday (13) waded into the furore over the controversial remarks by two now-suspended BJP functionaries against Prophet Mohammad, expressing the hope that the incident can be properly handled. China, which faces serious allegations of a mass crackdown on Uygur Muslims in the volatile Xinjiang province, said: “China always…
WHILE India faced a diplomatic backlash from several Muslim nations, including those in the Gulf, after former spokesperson of the country’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Nupur Sharma made controversial remarks against Prophet Muhammad on a television debate, New Delhi’s old ally Nepal came to its backing. In the tiny…
Here is a look the top headlines from India and around the world on Monday, June 13, 2022 Politics: Top Indian National Congress leaders and workers march in solidarity with top party leader Rahul Gandhi when he headed to the Enforcement Directorate office for questioning in the National Herald case.…
JAMES Anderson claimed his 650th Test wicket as England reduced New Zealand to 27-1 in their second innings at lunch on the fourth day of the second Test. Anderson was gifted his landmark wicket as New Zealand opener Tom Latham left a straight ball that clattered into his stumps. The…
BRITAIN'S Queen Elizabeth II on Sunday (12) overtook Thailand's King to become the world's second-longest reigning monarch in history, after France's Louis XIV. The UK has been celebrating the 96-year-old Queen's Platinum Jubilee to mark 70 years of service to the nation with grand events taking place last weekend. Now…
KERALA has ranked first in the country in providing public services by using information technology according to the latest National e-Governance Service Delivery Assessment (NeSDA), the state's chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan said on Monday (13). Taking to Twitter to announce the achievement of the state and the ruling LDF government,…
THERE could not have been a better time than this for the film to deliver. Yet, ‘Samrat Prithviraj’ failed to set the box office on fire. The film is about a 12th century Hindu king who stole a beautiful princess, who had professed her love for the man, from right…
