- Thursday, February 27, 2025
YOGI Adityanath, the chief minister of India’s most populous state of Uttar Pradesh which is headed to assembly elections next month, will contest from Gorakhpur (urban) seat, his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) said on Saturday (15). The saffron party, which is aiming to return to power in the key political…
SOUTH AFRICA Test captain Dean Elgar said his batters got a “window period” to go after the target of 212 runs in the third and concluding Test match against India after the visiting team’s outburst on the ground over a DRS (decision review system) call which did not go to…
BOMB disposal squad members on Friday (14) cordoned off a busy flower market in India’s capital New Delhi after finding an improvised explosive device (IED) left in an abandoned bag, police sources said. One police officer confirmed to AFP that the site was put under a cordon after the IED…
INDIA will celebrate January 16 as the ‘National Start-up Day’, prime minister Narendra Modi said on Saturday (15). Addressing several start-ups across the country, Modi said, “To make the culture of start-ups reach the far-flung parts of the country, it has been decided to celebrate January 16 as ‘National Start-up…
India captain Virat Kohli said on Friday (14) his side has "moved on" from the controversy over an overturned decision during the third Test defeat to South Africa, to lose the series 2-1, at Newlands, Cape Town. Kohli, 33, and two team-mates were caught on the stump microphone complaining after…
THE Adani group has signed a pact with South Korea's POSCO to explore business opportunities in sectors like steel and renewable energy. In a statement on Thursday (13), the Adani Group said the investment under a memorandum of understanding (MoU) between the two companies is estimated at £5 billion (£3.64…
PILOTING error caused the crash of the helicopter that killed India’s first chief of defence staff general Bipin Rawat, his wife and 11 other personnel in a hilly region in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu in December, preliminary findings of the inquiry team probing the tragedy have said.…
THE US has given a message to India that it is “discouraging” it from going ahead with its acquisition of S-400 missile defence systems from Russia. It, however, will have to weigh “important geostrategic considerations” while taking a decision on growing calls for a presidential CAATSA (Countering America’s Adversaries Through…
WITH pressure mounting on British prime minister Boris Johnson to step down over the “partygate” fiasco, one name is doing the rounds as a frontrunner to replace him and it his Johnson’s Indian-origin chancellor of the exchequer Rishi Sunak, who is also his neighbour. The 41-year-old Sunak, who is the…
INDIAN prime minister Narendra Modi is set to interact with more than 150 start-ups on Saturday (15) to boost the country’s start-up ecosystem, the prime minister’s office (PMO) said on Friday (14). The start-ups that will speak to Modi are from sectors such as agriculture, health, enterprise systems, space industry…
