Month: February 2025

No Indian In List As Tim Southee Predicts Top Two Batters Of Champions Trophy 2025

February 2, 2025 admin

Tim Southee in action© AFP Former New Zealand cricketer Tim Southee predicted compatriot Kane Williamson and Australian left-hander Travis Head to be the top run-getter in the upcoming ICC Champions Trophy, starting from February 19. Southee was talking in a video posted by the ICC. In the video by ICC, Southee said about…

Sports

India macro fundamentals strong, rupee not depreciating against any currency other than U.S. dollar, says Nirmala Sitharaman

February 2, 2025 admin

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman during an interview with PTI, in New Delhi, on February 2, 2025. | Photo Credit: PTI Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Sunday (February 2, 2025) rejected criticism over the slide of the Indian rupee, saying it has depreciated only against a strengthening U.S. dollar but remained stable against all…

Business

Two-Tier Test Format Likely Before India’s Tour Of England: Report

February 2, 2025 admin

When Australia face South Africa in the World Test Championship final, it will mark the end of the current format, which is set to be relaunched as a two-tier system ahead of India’s tour of England later this summer. In a bid to create a “fairer competition”, England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB)…

Sports

Budget Focus On Bihar, Delhi Polls? N Sitharaman Cites Abraham Lincoln

February 2, 2025 admin

New Delhi: Countering the Opposition’s charge that the Centre has extended big Budget gifts to Bihar with an eye on the upcoming Assembly polls, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has questioned if a state with such a high population density and rich history does not deserve a good international airport. The Finance Minister spoke to NDTV’s…

Nation

Mexican Influencer, 27, Dies Of Cardiac Arrest After Liposuction Procedure

February 2, 2025 admin

Mexican social media influencer Denisse Reyes, 27, died from complications following a liposuction procedure at an unauthorised clinic in Chiapas, Mexico. According to the New York Post, Ms Reyes had undergone the common cosmetic surgery on January 26 at the San Pablo Medical Clinic in Tuxtla Gutierrez, where she was administered intravenous medication by Dr…

World

Customs Benefit To Tesla, Harley To Counter Trump Tariff? N Sitharaman Says…

February 2, 2025 admin

New Delhi: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said the Centre has introduced custom duty rationalisation to ensure the Indian economy becomes aatmanirbhar (self-reliant). Ms Sitharaman was responding to NDTV’s Sanjay Pugalia on whether the budgetary announcement of reducing custom duty for many automobiles, which will benefit companies like Tesla and Harley Davidson, is a signal amid…

Nation

Budget is by the people, for the people, says Nirmala Sitharaman

February 2, 2025 admin

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman during an interview with PTI, in New Delhi, Sunday, Feb. 2, 2025 | Photo Credit: PTI Paraphrasing Abraham Lincoln, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Sunday (February 2, 2025) described the Union Budget as “by the people, for the people, of the people”, and said Prime Minister Narendra Modi was fully…

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Canadian PM Trudeau’s Emotional Message To Americans After Trump Tariffs

February 2, 2025 admin

Ottawa: After US President Donald Trump signed an executive order imposing 25 per cent tariffs on almost everything imported from Canada, outgoing Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau offered a reminder to Americans that his country has been at their side in the “darkest hours” — be it Iran hostage crisis and war in Afghanistan, or…

World

Himanta Sarma As Poppy Farms Destroyed

February 2, 2025 admin

Himanta Biswa Sarma uploaded a video of destroying the poppy cultivation. Guwahati: Around 170 bighas (over 56 acres) of poppy farming worth more than Rs 27 crore were destroyed in Goalpara district of Assam in January, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said on Sunday. “Dear Local Pablo Escobars, Sorry to spoil your planned Udta Assam…

Nation

Ukraine drone attack kills one in Russia’s Belgorod, governor says

February 2, 2025 admin

A view shows a building damaged during a fight between Ukrainian and Russian forces. File. | Photo Credit: Reuters A Ukrainian drone attack killed one civilian in the Russian region of Belgorod bordering Ukraine, the regional governor said on Sunday (February 2, 2025). “A man was killed,” Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said of the overnight strike…

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