Rohit Sharma (BCCI Photo) NEW DELHI: India achieved a remarkable milestone by becoming the first team in the 147-year history of Test cricket to hit 100 sixes in a calendar year. The Rohit Sharma-led side reached this feat on the third day of the first Test match against New Zealand in Bengaluru on Friday, surpassing…
NEW DELHI: French President Emmanuel Macron has announced the launch of Classes Internationales (international classes), a special programme for Indian students to learn French for a year in France before pursuing the degree of their choice, during his state visit to India last week, according to press release by the French Embassy in New Delhi.This…
NEW DELHI: India will have the maximum number of Trump Towers outside of US-president elect’s “The Trump Organisation” home country. From four all-residential high-rise luxury residential Trump Towers in Mumbai, Pune, Gurgaon and Kolkata, the number will swell to 10 in the next six years with many more projects – including office, golf course and…
MUMBAI: In the strongest lead connecting Baba Siddique’s murder to Lawrence Bishnoi, police said the suspected three shooters who killed the NCP politician had communicated with the jailed gangster’s Canada-based cousin, Anmol Bishnoi, through an instant messaging app before the murder. It is suspected Anmol sent them photos of Siddique and his son, MLA Zeeshan…
The U.S. House of Representatives Ethics Committee will meet Wednesday to discuss the next steps in its investigation of Matt Gaetz, according to two sources familiar with the panel’s plans. Gaetz is President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for attorney general, reported Reuters. The committee has been investigating allegations of sexual misconduct and drug use against Gaetz….
LONDON: A British court on Friday handed a van driver a 10-year prison term for smuggling migrants in a secret compartment where they were found screaming for help as they were starved of oxygen.Anas al-Mustafa, 43, originally from Syria, was found guilty in August of assisting unlawful migration by trafficking the seven people in a…
Canada cancels popular visa scheme The Government of Canada announced the termination of its Student Direct Stream (SDS), a program popular with Indian students for expedited study permit processing. As of today, students from India and 13 other countries who previously benefited from faster application handling through the SDS will now apply via Canada’s regular…
LONDON: A Pakistan-born man, Shazeb Khalid, has been found guilty of murdering Vignesh Pattabiraman, a 36-year-old Tamil who worked as a restaurant manager in Reading, UK on Valentines Day this year.The jury at Reading crown court on Wednesday found Khalid, 25, guilty of the murder of Pattabiraman by deliberately running his car into him for…
Former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan’s ex-wife Jemima Goldsmith made a long post on X expressing concern over the recent developments regarding Imran Khan and his family. Jemima said the Pakistan authorities have stopped all visits to him by Imran’s family and his lawyers. All court hearings have been stopped and now Imran is not…
Kamala Harris (Picture credit: Reuters) Vice President Kamala Harris in her first exclusive interview with Fox News since becoming the Democratic presidential nominee, outlined her economic strategy, and claiming that that it is superior to that of former President Donald Trump. Despite some polls indicating that the public trusts Trump more on economic issues, Harris…
