- Wednesday, April 30, 2025
US VICE PRESIDENT J D Vance and his wife Usha arrived in Delhi to a warm welcome on Monday (21) morning. Union minister Ashwini Vaishnaw received the Vances, including their three children, Ewan, Vivek, and Mirabel, at the Palam airbase. Besides Delhi, Vance and his family will travel to Jaipur…
SHY schoolboy Vaibhav Suryavanshi is in dreamland at just 14, having become the youngest player in Indian Premier League history and marking the occasion with an audacious first-ball six. "My word, what the hell was that?" Australia's Shane Watson said during the broadcast. "One of the hardest shots in cricket…
FAST bowlers often have elephantine memory but Royal Challengers Bengaluru’s Bhuvneshwar Kumar rather sheepishly conceded that he has forgotten to use saliva to shine the ball despite the redrafted rules. In the run-up to this season’s IPL, the BCCI had lifted the ban on using saliva as a ball polishing…
A 21-YEAR-OLD Indian student was killed in Canada after she was struck by a stray bullet while waiting at a bus stop on her way to work and shots were fired by a car occupant. Harsimrat Randhawa was a student at Mohawk College in Hamilton, Ontario. Hamilton Police is investigating…
MORE than 3.69 million tourists, Indians as well as foreign nationals, visited 18 heritage sites in Gujarat last year, the state government has said. Among these destinations, the four UNESCO World Heritage Sites alone attracted more than 1.29 million tourists, said an official release on Thursday (17), adding that the…
AUSSIE pacer Josh Hazlewood smiled wistfully as he ran past a dumbstruck Punjab Kings skipper Shreyas Iyer after dismissing him with a climbing delivery in the channel just outside the off-stump. The moment had two layers of significance to it. It was the third time Hazlewood had the number of…
INDIAN students in the US are grappling with a growing threat of deportation as authorities cancel F-1 visas over a range of issues - from participation in pro-Palestinian protests to minor legal infractions like violating traffic rules. The American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) has collected 327 reports of visa revocations…
THE GOVERNMENT has clarified that it is not mulling to levy GST on unified payments interface (UPI) transactions above ₹2,000 (£17.66). The finance ministry said the reports that the government is considering levying Goods and Services Tax (GST) on UPI transactions over ₹2,000 was false and clarified it has no…
FORMER West Bengal BJP president Dilip Ghosh married party colleague Rinku Majumdar in a private ceremony in Kolkata on Friday (18). Dressed in traditional Bengali wedding attire with a 'topor' on his head, Ghosh, along with his wife, appeared before the press following the rituals and sought people's blessings. "I…
IT SERVICES giant Infosys has fired 204 trainees at its Mysuru campus after they failed to clear internal assessment tests, according to media reports. The company emailed the affected trainees on Friday (18) to inform them that they had failed to clear the 'Generic foundation training' programme. An affected trainee…
