- Wednesday, February 26, 2025
A DAY after 14 civilians were killed by security forces in the north-eastern Indian state of Nagaland, state chief minister Neiphiu Rio said his government has asked the Narendra Modi government to remove the Armed Forces (Special Power) Act, 1958 (AFSPA) from his state. Speaking with the media after attending…
OLYMPIC bronze-winners India has reversed its decision to not take part in the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, the UK, next year and will play in the quadrennial sporting event “if they qualify”, a Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) official told Press Trust of India on Saturday (4). Earlier this year, Hockey…
WHILE China continues to surprise the world as a fast-emerging economic power, things look less rosy for it in the emerging markets. This has happened as investors have become increasingly wary of Chinese companies and their Indian counterparts have gained as a result, The Times reported. In its report, The…
INDIA won their two-Test series against New Zealand 1-0 on Monday (6) when they thumped the Kiwis by 372 runs in the second match at Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai with almost two days remaining. New Zealand, who resumed their chase for a mammoth target of 540 on Day 4 at…
RUSSIAN ambassador to India Nikolai Kudashev has said that the upcoming visit of Russian president Vladimir Putin to India would result in pragmatic economic outcomes and give impetus to the bilateral relationship between New Delhi and Moscow, two time-tested allies. Speaking to Asian News International on Saturday (4), Kudashev underlined…
AUSTRALIAN prime minister’s special trade envoy Tony Abbott on Friday (3) expressed optimism that his country and India would abide by the deadline of finalising the proposed trade pact which aims at enhancing their economic ties. India and Australia have agreed to finalise a long-pending free trade agreement, officially called…
INDIA came back strongly on the second day of the second Test match against New Zealand at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai on Saturday (4) to skittle out the visitors for only 62 runs in the first innings. Veteran spinner Ravichandran Ashwin, who recently became India’s third-highest wicket-taker in Tests,…
INDIAN-AMERICAN mathematician Nikhil Srivastava, a teacher at University of California, Berkley, has been jointly selected for the inaugural Ciprian Foais Prize in Operator Theory by American Mathematical Society (AMS). Along with Srivastava, two others who received the award are Adam Marcus and Daniel Spielman. While Marcus holds the chair of…
STARLINK, the satellite internet division of Elon Musk’s rocket company SpaceX, is set to apply for a commercial licence in India in early 2022 to provide broadband and other services, its country head on Friday (3) said. Sanjay Bhargava, Starlink country director, India, at SpaceX, said in a LinkedIn post,…
INDIA'S cricket tour of South Africa will take place despite the scare over the Omicron variant of Covid-19 but it will be a curtailed affair featuring three Tests and as many one-day internationals. The four 20 internationals that were also part of the tour would be postponed to a later…
