- Sunday, May 04, 2025
Renuka Singh's four-wicket haul guided India to a 100-run victory over Barbados to seal a place in the semi-finals at the ongoing Commonwealth Games 2022 in Birmingham on Wednesday (3). Chasing 163 to win in 20 overs, the Barbados women, who defeated Pakistan in their first match, could only manage…
Fifty years ago, dictator Idi Amin announced his intention to expel Uganda's thriving community of British South Asians. They were given 90 days to leave, or be rounded up into concentration camps. More than 27,000 ethnic Indian and Pakistani holders of UK passports made their way to Britain, which reluctantly…
Uber Technologies on Wednesday sold its entire 7.78 per cent stake in Zomato in a bulk deal on the Bombay Stock Exchange in which Fidelity and ICICI Prudential Life Insurance -- bought stakes in the new-age stock. Uber sold 61.22 crore (612.2 million) shares of Zomato that it had earned…
Here are some news in brief related to India's politics for Wednesday, August 3, 2022: The opposition Indian National Congress slammed the Narendra Modi government saying the party was "under siege" by the government which, it said, surrounded its headquarters and the residences of party chief Sonia Gandhi and former…
RECENTLY-LISTED Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) has broken into the latest Fortune Global 500 list, while Reliance Industries has jumped 51 places. The nation's biggest life insurer with revenue of $97.26 billion (£80.14 billion) and a profit of $553.8 million (£456.3 million), was ranked 98th on the just released Fortune 500…
Road safety awareness is something that is not given utmost care in India. Authorities often take measures to educate people about traffic signs and safety measures but not always there are serious takers. Recently, one such instance of lack of awareness over traffic signs came to the fore from the…
Several Indian parliamentarians, including central ministers and young parliamentarians, on Wednesday (3) took part in a bike rally in Delhi that originated from the historic Red Fort to pay tribute to the freedom fighters as part of the Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav. Tricolours in the streets and MPs on wheels,…
India captain Rohit Sharma might have hit only one six out of the four he required to become the second-most successful six-hitter in international cricket in the third T20 international against the West Indies on Tuesday (2) but even that scripted yet another record for him. The 35-year-old suffered a…
Police on Tuesday (2) charged a 20-year-old man with an offence under Britain's 1842 Treason Act after arresting him armed with a crossbow at Windsor Castle as Queen Elizabeth II spent Christmas Day there. Jaswant Singh Chail, from Southampton in southern England, has also been charged with making threats to…
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Wednesday (3) hit out at Indian finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman over the price rise issue and said everything appears "goody-goody" to her but the common people should be asked if it really is so. The party said the minister would know well what she…
