- Wednesday, May 07, 2025
THE Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on Wednesday (13) unveiled the new jersey that Team India will sport in the upcoming men’s T20 World Cup to be held in the United Arab Emirates and Oman starting October 17. The new blue jersey is named “Billion Cheers Jersey”…
THE Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) on Wednesday (13) opposed the bail plea filed by Aryan Khan, the 23-year-old son of Indian actor Shah Rukh Khan who was arrested in connection with the seizure of banned drugs on board a cruise ship off Mumbai coast earlier this month. The agency said…
THE dominance of right-wing Hindu outfits in India has come to the fore once again as they have banned entry of non-Hindus at venues hosting Garba (a dance form) during the ongoing Navratri festival in the central state of Madhya Pradesh where the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of prime minister…
THE reform measures undertaken by the Narendra Modi government of India have sent a “very powerful message” to the western investors, American Tower Corporation (ATC) executive vice president Edmund DiSanto has said, adding that the moves have cast the Asian economy in a “very favourable light” when it comes to…
ENERGY giants like ExxonMobil are looking forward to working with India to discover cleaner sources of energy to help the Asian economy become energy-independent by 2047, a target set up by prime minister Narendra Modi, a top official of the US company has revealed. India will complete 100 years of…
US TREASURY secretary Janet Yellen and Federal Reserve Board chairman Jerome Powell is set to meet their Indian counterparts Indian finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman and Reserve Bank of India governor Shaktikanta Das this week to speak over a range of issues, including economic recovery from Covid-19 pandemic and financial regulation…
ROYAL Challengers Bangalore (RCB) batter AB de Villiers feels Virat Kohli’s decision to quit the franchise’s captaincy is not selfish but the opposite. The ace batter, who has been South Africa’s national captain in the past, said he has been through a similar experience and could relate to Kohli’s feeling.…
INDIAN prime minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday (13) launched PM GatiShakti – National Master Plan for multi-modal connectivity at Pragati Maidan in New Delhi, the national capital. PM GatiShakti is Modi’s vision to build Next Generation Infrastructure which improves Ease of Living and Ease of Doing Business. The plan includes…
POLICE in Peshawar in Pakistan have identified as many as 4,000 people and started scrutinising the mobile data of each of them to trace the culprits who shot dead a reputed Sikh ‘hakeem’ (Unani medicine practitioner) in the city in September. The 45-year-old Sardar Satnam Singh (Khalsa) was at his…
THE International Energy Agency (IEA) has invited India to become its full-time member, a proposal if accepted will need New Delhi to raise strategic oil reserves to 90 days of requirement. Hardeep Singh Puri, the country’s petroleum and natural gas minister, on Monday (11) said this and added that he…
