- Thursday, February 27, 2025
INDIA'S women might have had a heartbreak in Asian Cup football after the entire camp tested positive for coronavirus which forced them to bow out of the tournament but their counterparts in hockey have more than made up. On Monday (24), a day after India failed to field a team…
AMERICAN e-commerce giant Amazon on Monday (24) faced flak from a section of Indian social media users over merchandising some products, including apparel and food items, that feature the Indian Tricolour, with some saying that using the national asset in such way was an insult and violation of the country’s…
THIS year's Republic Day parade will have 16 marching contingents, 17 military bands and 25 tableaux of various states, departments and armed forces, a statement on Saturday said. The Army will be represented by a mounted column of cavalry, 14 mechanised columns, six marching contingents and a flypast by advanced…
MORE than 80 faculty members of the California State University (CSU), the US, have opposed a recent announcement of the institute to include caste in its non-discriminatory policy. In a strongly worded letter to the CSU board of trustees opposing the move, the faculty members wrote that the new policy…
THE Delhi Police has arrested a teenage boy from Lucknow, the capital of the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, for allegedly setting up a Clubhouse chatroom abusing women from India’s minority Muslim community. The action was taken after a screen recording the talks on two chatrooms were circulated on Twitter.…
DOZENS of turtles might have perished at a lake near the Indian city of Mumbai in the western state of Maharashtra due to deliberate poisoning, the country’s wildlife experts told AFP on Sunday (23). Conservation workers were alerted about the incident after a local politician asked them to look into…
SWASHBUCKLING India opener Smriti Mandhana was on Monday (24) named the International Cricket Council’s (ICC) Women’s Cricketer of the Year for the second time for her good form across all formats in 2021. The southpaw, who also made it to the ICC T20 Women’s Team of the Year, pipped fellow…
SOON after reports came out of a family of four from the western Indian state of Gujarat freezing to death while trying to cross the border between the US and Canada illegally a few days ago, the police in the state have asked its crime investigation department (CID) to separately…
THE government of Sri Lanka has said that there is a possibility of it getting further aid worth $1.5 billion (£1.1 billion) from India, weeks after New Delhi announced a billion-dollar assistance package and a balance of payment support to the island-nation which is in the middle of a severe…
INDIAN women’s football faced one of its saddest days in history as the side was kicked out of the Women’s Asian Cup following a Covid-19 outbreak in its camp which meant it could not field a full team for their Group A fixture against Chinese Taipei on Sunday (23). India…
