- Thursday, February 27, 2025
THE media rights for the Indian Premier League (IPL) for five-year cycle starting 2023 was closely contested by some of the country’s top sports broadcasters and if sources are to be believed, the prices of the television and digital rights were pegged at Rs 44,075 crore (£4.6 billion). It put…
THE media rights for the Indian Premier League (IPL) for five-year cycle starting 2023 was closely contested by some of the country’s top sports broadcasters and at the end, the television and digital rights were won separately by two broadcasters, Indian news sources reported. They said that the prices of…
THE Sri Lankan official who had claimed that his country’s president Gotabaya Rajapaksa had acted under pressure from Indian prime minister Narendra Modi to award an energy contract in the island-nation to Indian businessman Gautam Adani’s company, has resigned. According to reports, MMC Ferdinando, the chairman of Sri Lanka’s Ceylon…
A 70-YEAR-OLD woman not only lost her life, but her corpse also fell to the wrath of a wild tusker in Odisha’s Mayurbhanj district, police said on Saturday (11). Maya Murmu was collecting water from a tubewell in Raipal village on Thursday (9) morning when she was attacked by a…
THE Kuwaiti government has decided to arrest and deport an unspecified number of expats who participated in a protest against the controversial remarks by two former Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) functionaries against Prophet Mohammad, as the Gulf nation’s laws do not allow such demonstrations, according to a media report. Instructions…
BOLLYWOOD actor Shakti Kapoor's son Siddhanth Kapoor was arrested along with four others for allegedly consuming drugs during a rave party in a city hotel, police said on Monday (13). "It is confirmed that Bollywood actor Shakti Kapoor's son Siddhant Kapoor took drugs. He tested positive for drugs in the…
LEADERS of prominent Islamic groups and mosques in India appealed to fellow Muslims on Monday (13) to suspend plans for protests against derogatory remarks about the Prophet Mohammad made by two members of the ruling Hindu-nationalist party. The message to avoid big gatherings was circulated after demonstrations took a violent turn last week, leading to the…
INDIAN National Congress leader Rahul Gandhi was questioned by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Monday (13) in a money laundering probe linked to the National Herald newspaper after the member of parliament reached the agency's headquarters here accompanied by a battery of party leaders and supporters. After his questioning for…
WICKET-KEEPER-BATTER Heinrich Klaasen smashed 81 off 46 balls to lead South Africa's tricky chase as they beat India by four wickets in the second Twenty20 international on Sunday. Needing 149 for victory on a hot and humid day in Cuttack, South Africa rode Klaasen's fourth T20 half-century to achieve their…
RUSSIA deeply cherishes its "equal and respectful" relations with India, and the multidimensional cooperation between the two strategic partners is among the world's "most elaborate" ones, Russian ambassador to the country Denis Alipov has said. The envoy has also said the positions of the two countries on "core issues remain…
