- Saturday, May 03, 2025
PACE spearhead Jasprit Bumrah will act as deputy to Rohit Sharma for their three-match home test series against New Zealand starting next week, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) said as they announced a 15-member squad. Bowlers Mohammed Shami and Yash Dayal are the notable absentees in…
AN EXPRESS train hit a stationary goods train on Friday night in Tamil Nadu after it entered a wrong track, railway officials said. The Railway Board has said that the accident occurred at the Ponneri-Kavarapettai section in Chennai Rail Division and a coach caught fire. Many passengers were injured, but…
THE swearing-in ceremony of the new BJP government in Haryana will be held on October 17 in Panchkula, the party said in a statement on Saturday. It said prime minister Narendra Modi, senior BJP leaders and chief ministers of some other states will attend the event. The oath-taking ceremony will…
THE National Conference (NC)-Congress alliance Friday staked the claim to form government in Jammu and Kashmir as chief minister-designate Omar Abdullah called on Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha in Srinagar. During his meeting with Sinha, Abdullah presented the letters of support from the coalition partners, hours after Congress extended its support…
PRIME MINISTER Narendra Modi met his Canadian counterpart Justine Trudeau on the sidelines of the ASEAN Summit in Laos, almost a year after Canada accused India of involvement in the killing of a Khalistani separatist on its soil. The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC News) said Trudeau described the meeting as…
AFTER authorities advised him not to visit the JP International Centre in Lucknow citing security concerns, a defiant SP chief Akhilesh Yadav Friday garlanded a bust of Jayaprakash Narayan mounted atop a vehicle outside his residence where hundreds of party workers had gathered. JP, as the late socialist ideologue and…
IT WASN'T her day, acknowledged Indian boxer Nikhat Zareen dwelling on her shocking medal-less Olympic campaign but asserted that she would be back stronger with the help of a personal coach that she is currently trying to find. Nikhat, who was a strong medal contender, bowed out of the 50kg…
REEMA KAGTI’S latest film, “Superboys of Malegaon”, was screened at the 68th BFI London Film Festival on Thursday. The screening took place at Vue West End Theatre in London and was attended by Kagti, lead actor Adarsh Gourav, and co-producers Ritesh Sidhwani and Zoya Akhtar. The film, produced by Excel…
VOWING to introduce a reciprocal tax if elected to power, former US president Donald Trump on Thursday alleged that India, among all major countries, imposes the highest tariffs on foreign products. “Perhaps the most important element of my plan to make America extraordinarily wealthy again is reciprocity. It's a word that's…
NEW ZEALAND'S new Test captain Tom Latham feels the only way to challenge an almost invincible India in their own backyard is by playing fearless cricket. Latham has taken over the captaincy from Tim Southee ahead of the three-match Test series in India beginning on October 16 in Bengaluru. "It's…
