- Wednesday, February 26, 2025
FACING adverse results in the recently held first phase of local elections in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan has dissolved all organisations of his ruling Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) across the nation. According to a report from Pakistan’s major daily Dawn, information minister Fawad Chaudhry made the announcement in…
THE Indian rupee is set to end 2021, a tumultuous year, as Asia’s worst-performing currency with foreign funds running away from the nation’s stocks. According to a report by Bloomberg, the currency declined 2.2 per cent this quarter as global funds pulled $4.4 billion of capital out of India’s stock…
IT seems the Indian National Congress’ problems in states ahead of the election season are never ending. After witnessing rift in states like Rajasthan, Punjab and Chhattisgarh where it is in power, the grand-old party is now facing escalating tensions in poll-bound Uttarakhand. Trouble started for the party in the…
WISHES poured in for India’s Olympic gold medallist Neeraj Chopra on Friday (24) when he turned 24. From fans to members of the sports fraternity, the young javelin thrower from the northern Indian state of Haryana received heartfelt wishes on social media. Chopra became only the second Indian to win…
THE World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) on Thursday (23) announced that it has reinstated the accreditation of India’s national dope-testing laboratory, which has remained suspended since mid-2019, with immediate effect. According to a report by AFP, the New Delhi-based lab is now free to resume its anti-doping activities, including urine and…
THE ruling military junta of Myanmar has disallowed a meeting between visiting Indian foreign secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla and the country’s deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi. According to a report by Asian News International, nobody other than the lawyers of the veteran leader is allowed to meet her. Shringla,…
THE Indian men’s hockey team retained the third spot in FIH (International Hockey Federation) rankings behind Australia and Belgium but the women’s team slipped to the ninth spot. The Netherlands were leading the table in the women’s category. The Indian men’s team, which won an Olympic medal earlier this year…
A COURT in India has requested the country’s Narendra Modi government to suspend political rallies and election campaigns and delay elections in states that are due for elections amid the growing number of Omicron infections. Judges of the Allahabad High Court in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, which is…
INDIA off-spinner Harbhajan Singh on Friday (24) quit all forms of cricket and said he had been contemplating retirement for some time and made up his mind to take the call during this year’s Indian Premier League. Singh, who is fondly called ‘Turbanator’, announced his retirement in a social media…
INTELLIGENCE agencies have received strong inputs over the involvement of a Khalistan-supported group backed by Pakistan’s Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) in the planning and execution of the blast that rocked a court in Ludhiana in the northern Indian state of Punjab on Thursday (23). A senior official said India’s intelligence…
