Manchester, 17/2: Saudi Arabia has joined the race to buy Manchester United ahead of Friday’s nominal deadline, according to a report in Britain’s Daily Telegraph, raising the stakes in what could be the most lucrative deal in sports history. The American Glazer family, who completed their takeover of the 20-times English champions in…
Mumbai, 17/2: Former India batsman Shiv Sundar Das will be the new interim chairman of the selection committee after Chetan Sharma resigned. Sharma who was in an embarrassing situation following a TV Sting operation sent his resignation letter to the BCCI Secretary Jay Shah. BCCI has also accepted the same. However, a senior BCCI official…
Mumbai, 17/2: Hindustan Unilever Limited on Friday announced that its leading laundry detergent brand, Surf Excel has crossed the $1 billion turnover mark. With this, Surf Excel becomes one of the few brands in the entire consumer packaged goods sector in India to achieve this distinction. Purpose-driven marketing, on-trend innovations and superior product quality…
Mumbai, 17/2: BCCI chief selector Chetan Sharma on Friday resigned from his post, according to ANI. He sent his resignation to BCCI Secretary Jay Shah and the latter accepted it. This comes days after Sharma was caught in a controversy after he allegedly revealed classified selection matters during a sting operation conducted…
Moscow, 17/2: After a report this week renewed scrutiny on Moscow for deporting Ukrainian children and detaining others, President Vladimir Putin of Russia, ignoring widespread condemnations of human rights abuses, said more Russian families want to adopt Ukrainian children. In a meeting with Russia’s commissioner for children’s rights, Maria Lvova-Belova, on Thursday, Putin…
Chembur, 17/2:The Godrej Properties has acquired the iconic bungalow of legendary showman Raj Kapoor at Chembur in Mumbai. The bungalow would be developed as a premium residential project. In May 2019, Godrej Properties had acquired R K Studios in Chembur from the Kapoor family to develop a premium mixed-use project, Godrej RKS, which…
Beijing, 16/2: China’s ceremonial parliament has accused American lawmakers of trampling on the sovereignty of other nations after the US passed a measure condemning a suspected Chinese spy balloon’s intrusion into US airspace. The statement issued on Thursday by the National People’s Congress’s Foreign Affairs Committee repeated Beijing’s insistence that the balloon was…
New Delhi, 16/2: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address a global business summit on Friday, his office said. The summit, Economic Times Global Business Summit 2023, is hosted annually by The Times Group, the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) said in a statement on Thursday. It will bring together thought leaders, policymakers, academicians and corporate heads…
Hoogly, 16/2: Asian Games gold medallist and Olympian Tulsidas Balaram, a part of Indian football’s ‘holy trinity’ in the prosperous 1950s and 60s, died here on Thursday after a prolonged illness, sources close to his family said. Balaram was 87 and a widower living in a flat on the banks of Hooghly river…
Mumbai, 16/2: Adani Enterprises flagship company of the Gautam Adani-led conglomerate Adani Group, on Thursday rubbished reports of hiring US-based accountancy firm Grant Thornton for independent audit of its firms after the Hindenburg fallout. Adani Enterprises issued a clarification in this regard to the stock exchanges. “We would like to clarify that the…
