- Thursday, July 17, 2025
FORMER Indian captain Sunil Gavaskar has urged the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) to avoid the use of cheerleaders and DJ music during the remaining Indian Premier League matches. He said this should be done a mark of respect for those who lost their lives during the…
WHILE US president Donald Trump is currently on his tour of Gulf countries, India's richest man Mukesh Ambani is flying to Doha to meet him. This will be Ambani's second meeting since Trump returned to presidency in January this year. Ambani will attend a state dinner that the Emir of…
THE MADHYA PRADESH High Court on Wednesday (14) suo motu directed the registration of an FIR against BJP leader and state minister Kunwar Vijay Shah for alluding Colonel Sofiya Qureshi as “sister of terrorists”. A Division Bench comprising Justice Atul Sreedharan and Justice Anuradha Shukla called the minister's remarks as…
STAR Indian shuttler Lakshya Sen suffered a shock defeat in the first round of the Thailand Open Super 500 tournament in Bangkok on Wednesday. Sen, a 2021 World Championships bronze medallist, fell to Ireland's Nhat Nguyen in a tense three-game battle, losing 18-21 21-9 17-21 in a match that lasted…
SAUDI ARABIA has promised around $600 billion in deals with the United States, from defense to artificial intelligence, as it threw a lavish welcome for president Donald Trump on the first state visit of his second term. Trump returned the favor by moving on a key Saudi policy request by…
US PRESIDENT Donald Trump's repeated claim that his administration "successfully brokered a historic ceasefire" to stop the escalating violence between India and Pakistan, is drawing angry reactions. India carried out precision strikes under 'Operation Sindoor' on terror infrastructure early on May 7 in response to the April 22 Pahalgam terror…
MICROSOFT has announced that it’s laying off 3 per cent of it workforce, around 6,000 employees, as it looks to reduce the 'layers of management' across all teams and geographies. This would be Microsoft’s largest round of layoffs since the elimination of 10,000 roles in 2023, and the company has…
INDIAN-ORIGIN Canadian politicians Anita Anand and Maninder Sidhu have got important portfolios of foreign affairs and international trade respectively in the new cabinet announced by prime minister Mark Carney. Carney announced the reshuffle on Tuesday (13) almost two weeks after his Liberal Party won the federal elections in Canada. He…
THE TRUMP administration's move to grant refugee status to 59 white South Africans, by describing them as victims of "racial discrimination", has evoked criticism from Democrats and confusion in South Africa. Interestingly, US president Donald Trump has blocked mostly non-white refugee admissions from the rest of the world, but in…
A MADHYA PRADESH state minister has landed himself in a controversy for his rabidly communal remarks about Colonel Sofia Qureshi, a distinguished soldier chosen by the Indian army to brief the nation about Operation Sindoor. At a government function in Manpur town near Mhow, the tribal welfare minister, Kunwar Vijay…
