File Pic: Virat Kohli and AB de Villiers NEW DELHI: Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) appear set for a fresh chapter under Virat Kohli‘s leadership in the 2025 IPL season, with the franchise assembling a strong 22-member squad during the recent auction in Jeddah. Kohli, who previously captained the side from 2013 to 2021, is poised…
Japan’s biggest banks plan to maintain ties to billionaire Gautam Adani despite US bribery charges, even as other global firms including Barclays Plc are reassessing their exposure to the Indian conglomerate.Mizuho Financial Group Inc. expects the latest saga surrounding Adani won’t have a long-lasting impact and intends to continue supporting the group, according to people…
NEW DELHI: Indian consulate officials in Canada have been informed that they were under “audio and video surveillance and that their private communications have also been intercepted,” ministry of external affairs said on Thursday. It added that the Indian government had already lodged a protests with the Justin Trudeau government on November 2 citing “flagrant…
Russia unleashed a massive wave of missiles and drone strikes across Ukraine on Thursday, targeting critical power plants and plunging millions into darkness as temperatures hovered around freezing. Ukrainian officials reported major damage in nine regions, with over a million people immediately losing power and many more facing intensified rolling blackouts.Russian President Vladimir Putin said…
NEW DELHI: Maharashtra’s caretaker chief minister Eknath Shinde on Thursday said that the Mahayuti alliance would convene another meeting in Mumbai to decide on the next chief minister.Shinde’s comments came after key meeting in Delhi between Shinde, BJP’s Devendra Fadnavis, NCP’s Ajit Pawar, and other Mahayuti leaders with Union minister Amit Shah and BJP national…
US President-elect Donald Trump shared an AI-generated video mocking President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris.The 36-second video clip is from the classic holiday movie ‘National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation’ where the actors’ faces have been swapped with democratic party members Biden, Harris, former speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez….
NEW DELHI: India swept past Australia for a dominant 295-run win in the first Test in Perth last Monday, wrapping up the match with more than a day to spare.The visitors came into the opening match under pressure after their first home series loss in 12 years, against New Zealand, defeated 0-3.Border-Gavaskar TrophyBut the Jasprit…
Over 140 candidates belonging to the economically weaker section (annual family income less than Rs 8 lakh) have chosen postgraduate seats in clinical specialties from the management and NRI quotas of private medical colleges for which tuition fees alone range from Rs 25 lakh to over Rs 90 lakh per annum. This has led to…
Now handling 4.5 million containers, Vizhinjam port will be southern India’s largest freight terminal THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Kerala signed Thursday a supplementary concession agreement with Adani Vizhinjam Port Pvt Ltd, paving the way for earlier-than-expected revenue gains from Vizhinjam deep-water international seaport near Thiruvananthapuram. The Rs 7,700-crore port, built as a public-private partnership with Adani Group, is…
UK Conservative MP Bob Blackman British Conservative MP Bob Blackman strongly raised the issue of atrocities against Hindus and the arrest of Iskcon priest Chinmoy Krishna Das and said it is unacceptable that “religious minorities are persecuted in this way.”While addressing the UK Parliament, Blackman said that the Hindus across Bangladesh are being subject literally…
