Category: Events

NEW DELHI: A special court of Pakistan’s Federal Investigation Agency on Saturday sentenced former prime minister and Pakistan Tehreek i Insaf founder Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi to 17 years of imprisonment each in the Toshakhana 2 corruption case, Dawn reported.The court also imposed a fine of Rs 16.4 million on each of...

The Department of Justice on Friday released thousands of files related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell, but a substantial number of documents remain unpublished.Congress had given the DOJ a Dec. 19 deadline to release all records in its possession. Over the past month, the DOJ and both Democratic and Republican...

Hardik Pandya (AFP Photo) NEW DELHI: Indian all-rounder Hardik Pandya surpassed legendary Yuvraj Singh to become the Indian with the most instances of scoring a half-century and taking at least one wicket in the same T20I. Pandya achieved the milestone during the fifth and final T20I against South Africa on Friday.Given a solid platform by...

NEW DELHI: More than 100 flights were cancelled at Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport on Saturday due to dense fog affecting visibility across North India. Officials reported that sixty six arriving flights and sixty three departures were cancelled. Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport issued a passenger advisory as fog continued to blanket the national...

Virat Kohli (PTI Photo) NEW DELHI: India’s Test vice-captain Rishabh Pant has been named captain of the Delhi team for the upcoming National One-Day Championship in the Vijay Hazare Trophy, starting December 24, with veteran Virat Kohli also expected to feature in a couple of matches.In addition to Pant and Kohli, pacer Harshit Rana and...

Google has asked some of its employees in the US to not travel abroad amid the H-1B visa row. According to a report by Business Insider, the company’s outside counsel, BAL Immigration Law has sent an internal memo which says that workers who require a new visa stamp to re-enter the US risk being stuck...

India, the defending T20 World Cup champions, will co-host the tournament with Sri Lanka from February 7 to March 8, having defeated the Proteas in a thrilling final in 2024. (Image credit: BCCI) NEW DELHI: South Africa head coach Shukri Conrad described his team’s tour of India as “a very successful one” and expressed hope...

Image Credit: X NEW DELHI: A senior Air India Express pilot has been grounded after allegedly assaulting a passenger at Delhi airport’s Terminal 1 on Friday. The incident reportedly began when Captain Virender Sejwal told passenger Ankit Dewan, “This lane is for staff. Are you anpadh [illiterate]?”, triggering what initially was a verbal altercation that...

Guwahati airport gets new terminal! Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to inaugurate the new terminal building of Lokapriya Gopinath Bardoloi International Airport in Guwahati today. On Friday, he shared striking images of the facility ahead of the event. Calling it a major boost to Assam’s infrastructure, the Prime Minister said the upgraded airport will...

A mob of protesters set the offices of Bangladeshi newspapers Prothom Alo and The Daily Star on fire after Sharif Osman Hadi, Bangladesh’s youth leader, was killed after being shot in the head on December 12.According to witnesses, hundreds of Hadi’s supporters chanted slogans before setting the building in Dhaka on fire around midnight. Bangladesh...