- Monday, May 05, 2025
THE inaugural Melbourne Hockey Cup will be played at Melbourne Sports Centre Parkville in Melbourne, Australia, between September 23 and 25, and the organisers have invited former India hockey captain and Olympian Pargat Singh as the chief guest at the event, NRI Affairs website reported. Singh, who is currently a…
INDIA vice captain Rishabh Pant scripted a fabulous fightback along with spinner-all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja against England in the fifth Test of the 2021 series in Edgbaston, Birmingham, on Friday (1) after the hosts pegged the visitors back after winning the toss and opting to bowl. India were placed at 323…
INDIA has overtaken China and New Zealand to become the third-largest country of birth behind Australia and England in Australia, the latest census figures released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics has said. The latest data also revealed that the total number of people of Indian origin went up by…
INDIAN prime minister Narendra Modi on Friday (1) spoke to Russian president Vladimir Putin during which he reiterated New Delhi’s longstanding stance on the Ukraine crisis, favouring dialogue and diplomacy. In a telephonic conversation, the two leaders spoke on global issues, including the current situation in international energy and food…
HERE are some business and economy news in brief for Friday, July 1, 2022: Japanese automaker Toyota unveils its first mass-market hybrid car for India: Toyota Motor Corp on Friday unveiled its first mass-market hybrid car for India, a sport utility vehicle (SUV), charting a new course for the Japanese…
INDIA'S biggest tax reform, the Goods and Services Tax (GST), completes its half-a-decade journey on June 30, with many hits and some misses, and also brought about a paradigm shift in use of technology to bring about tax compliance and making over Rs 1 lakh crore revenue collection every month…
EMOTIONS spilled over and cries of ‘Jai Jagannath’ and ‘Haribol’ rent the air as the gigantic chariots of Lord Jagannath and his divine siblings Lord Balabhadra and Devi Subhadra along with Chakraraj Sudarshan rolled for the nine-day Ratha Jatra festival in this sea-side pilgrim town on Friday (1) in the…
UDDHAV Thackeray, the former chief minister of the western Indian state of Maharashtra, on Friday (1) lashed out at the new government led by Eknath Shinde from his own party but with a different ally in the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Thackeray, who quit the post earlier this week after…
THE experienced Deepti Sharma shone with the bat after her exploits with the ball, coming to the Indian women's team's rescue in a tricky chase for a four-wicket win over Sri Lanka in the first one-day international (ODI) here on Friday (1). In the company of Pooja Vastrakar (21 not…
TWO Indo-Canadian academics have been honoured with the ‘Order of Canada’, one of the North American nation’s most prestigious awards, for their research work to advance the betterment of mankind. The names of professors Ajay Agrawal and Parminder Raina featured in a list published by the office of Mary Simon,…
