- Thursday, February 27, 2025
A CAREER-BEST four-for by seamer Prasidh Krishna on Wednesday (9) helped India defeat the West Indies by 44 runs in the second one-day international at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad in the western state of Gujarat to clinch the three-match series. Chasing 238 to level the series, the Caribbeans…
INDIA has rubbished a reference to Jammu and Kashmir made in a joint statement issued by Pakistan and China last week saying that it expects the parties concerned not to interfere in its internal affairs. The country’s ministry of external affairs also said that it has consistently conveyed its concerns…
THE high court of the southern Indian state of Karnataka on Wednesday (9) passed the decision on the current row over whether schools and colleges can ask Muslim girls not to wear hijabs (headscarves) in classrooms to a larger bench headed by its chief justice. The court made the move…
INDIA'S biggest airline IndiGo expects its revenue to recover from April as demand for travel has shown signs of recovery, its chief executive officer (CEO) Ronojoy Dutta said on Friday (4) after the carrier saw its first quarterly profit in two years. Airlines which have been heavily hit by the…
THE Indian embassy in Canada has advised the country’s citizens to exercise caution in the wake of the anti-vaccine mandate protests in various cities of Canada, including capital Ottawa and Toronto. The Indian mission in Ottawa issued a statement late on Tuesday (8) saying, “Please take all precautions in light…
THE western Indian state of Maharashtra, one of the country’s most developed ones, will offer companies such as Amazon and Uber new incentives to make their delivery fleets electric-driven ahead of a 2025 target for cleaner air, its energy minister told Reuters. Maharashtra, which is home to India’s financial capital…
AN Indian woman in her 50s was found unresponsive in a wheelchair near the baggage belt at the Washington Dulles International Airport in Virginia in the US and a timely intervention from the emergency medical personnel saved her life, local authorities said, calling the situation as “harrowing”. On Tuesday (8),…
INDIAN external affairs minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar is set to participate in the fourth Quad foreign ministers’ meeting in Melbourne, Australia, on Friday (11) along with his counterparts from the host nation, Japan and the United States, the ministry said on Wednesday (9). Jaishankar, who recently tested positive for Covid-19, will…
INDIAN home minister Amit Shah on Tuesday (8) said while the releasing ‘Lok Kalyan Sankalp Patra – 2022’ for Uttar Pradesh that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government in the state will establish a “Performing Arts Academy”. The aim is to honour the legacy of legendary Indian singer Lata Mangeshkar…
A COURT in India on Monday (8) gave a freelance journalist in Kashmir two days to appear before it in connection with a police complaint that he had acted against the public interest by publicising a piece of information on social media about a militant attack on a cop. The…
