Mumbai, 19/12: The BCCI is set to announce the team India squad for the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2026, which is less than two months away, on Saturday (December 20). The defending champions have continued their top form in the shortest format, having not lost a single series, including a dominant Asia Cup. In…
Dhaka,19/12: Amid unrest in Bangladesh following the death of youth leader Sharif Osman Hadi, videos show mobs vandalising offices of news organisations including Prothom Alo and Daily Star. The protests began late on Thursday in many cities after Hadi, a spokesperson for Inquilab Mancha platform and a candidate in general elections, was shot in the…
New Delhi, 19/12: The Delhi High Court on Friday set aside an order of the Lokpal granting sanction to the CBI to file a chargesheet against Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra in the alleged cash-for-query scam. A bench of justices Anil Kshetarpal and Harish Vaidyanathan Shankar, while pronouncing the order in Moitra’s plea, said “The…
New Delhi, 18/12: Twenty-six Indians working in the Russian armed forces have reportedly died, while seven have been marked as missing by the Russian side, the government told Parliament on Thursday. In a written reply to a question in the Rajya Sabha, Minister of State for External Affairs Kirti Vardhan Singh also said efforts are…
New Delhi, 18/12: Parliament on Thursday passed the nuclear energy bill, with the Rajya Sabha giving its nod to the legislation seeking to open the tightly-controlled civil nuclear sector for private participation. The Upper House passed the Sustainable Harnessing and Advancement of Nuclear Energy for Transforming India (SHANTI) Bill by a voice vote, while rejecting…
Karachi, 18/12: A popular Pakistani international kabbadi player, Ubaidullah Rajput, faces the prospect of a severe disciplinary action after he appeared for an Indian team in a private tournament in Bahrain on December 16. Ubaidullah found himself in big trouble after videos and pictures of him wearing Indian shirt and waving the Indian flag in…
Muscat, 18/12: India and Oman on Thursday inked a free trade agreement, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi held talks with Sultan Haitham bin Tarik and explored ways to further add greater depth to the bilateral Strategic Partnership. Modi, who arrived in Oman on Wednesday on the last leg of his three-nation tour, was welcomed by…
Melbourne, 18/12: A 34-year-old Indian-origin man who helped restrain one of the alleged shooters of the Bondi Beach attack in Australia said he wanted to help bring one of the assailants down and assist anyone who needed help. Fifteen people were killed after a father-son duo launched a gun attack on the occasion of a…
Dhaka, 18/12: Two Indian visa application centers in Bangladesh were shut down on Thursday in view of the security situation in the country. The centers are located in Rajshahi and Khulna.
Cochin, 18/12: An Air India Express flight from Jeddah to Kozhikode with 160 passengers made an emergency landing at the Cochin International Airport on Thursday due to issues involving its landing gear and tyre failure. The Cochin International Airport Limited (CIAL), in a statement, said that it successfully facilitated the safe emergency landing of Air…
