August 2024

LONDON: Lord's, the 'home of cricket', will host its first-ever Women's Test between India and England in 2026, the ECB announced on Thursday. The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) said that after playing a three-match ODI series…

New Delhi: India's women's table tennis player, Archana Kamath, who played a crucial role in the Paris Olympics 2024 to lead the country to the quarter-finals, announced her decision to quit professional table tennis and focus on her…

LUCKNOW: Lucknow, the city of Nawabs, is gearing up to host traditional rivals Mohun Bagan and East Bengal for the first time on September 2 as part of plans to promote football in Uttar Pradesh. The derby will be played at the state…

Mumbai: India's top cement makers are slated to undertake capital expenditure worth Rs 1.25 trillion over the next two financial years (2025-26 and 2026-27) to add 130 million tonne capacity. This significant capex plan is driven by healthy…

New Delhi: The government is trying its best to address the issue of goods and services tax (GST) under the reverse charge mechanism for import of services in the upcoming GST Council meet to be held on September 9, sources privy to the…

NEW DELHI: India may not meet its target of increasing the share of natural gas in the country’s energy mix to 15% by 2030, according to Spencer Dale, group chief economist at BP plc. Dale, speaking to the press on Wednesday, also…

DHAKA: Bangladesh's interim government revoked the diplomatic passport of ousted premier Sheikh Hasina on Thursday, after she fled a student-led uprising earlier this month. The interior ministry said in a statement that Hasina's…

Yen Bai province: six-year-old boy who was missing for five days has been found deep in a forest in Vietnam. Dang Tien Lam, a resident of Van Yen district in Yen Bai province, disappeared on August 17 while playing in a stream with his…

Gaborone: Botswana has recently made headlines with the discovery of an extraordinary 2,492-carat diamond, one of the largest ever unearthed globally. The monumental find was made at one of the country’s mines, reinforcing Botswana’s status…

LAHORE, Pakistan: Gunmen opened fire on a school van in Pakistan’s eastern Punjab province Thursday, killing two children and wounding six other people, police and officials said. Authorities said the driver, who was among the wounded,…

WARSAW: Prime Minister Narendra Modi was greeted on Thursday by his Polish counterpart Donald Tusk before heading to Kyiv for top-level meetings. The two leaders are expected to sign bilateral strategic cooperation agreements covering…

PORTICELLO: Searches resumed Thursday for the last person missing after a superyacht carrying UK tech tycoon Mike Lynch sank off Sicily, with divers recovering a fifth body from the wreck. Specialist divers working with an underwater…

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New Delhi/Warsaw: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Ukraine and discuss bilateral relations and multilateral cooperation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Aug 23, confirmed the Ukrainian presidential office on Monday.…

DEHRADUN: Three dead and one missing in flash floods as heavy rainfall continues to batter Uttarakhand. The aftermath of a cloudburst in Tehri has left several villages struggling to cope with the fury of the monsoon. Rescue operations…

RANCHI: Former Jharkhand chief minister Champai Soren on Wednesday said he would not quit politics, asserting that an option to float a new political outfit was always open to him. Soren said he was firm on his plans after "facing…

NEW DELHI: Agitated resident and junior doctors will continue their nationwide indefinite strike, which has entered its 10th day on Wednesday, to push the Central government to enact a law to protect healthcare professionals. The…