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February 24, 2025 9:33 AM

Kohli aces another chase for India, Pakistan stare at exit

Milestone man Virat Kohli anchored a tricky chase with an unbeaten hundred as India put one foot in the semi-finals of the Champions Trophy with a six-wicket victory against Pakistan in a high-octane Group A match between the arch-rivals on Sunday. ...

February 24, 2025 10:58 AM

German election victor Friedrich Merz plans pivot from US as coalition talks loom

Friedrich Merz, set to become Germany's next chancellor after his opposition conservatives won the national election on Sunday, vowed to help give Europe "real independence" from the U.S. as he prepared to cobble together a government. Merz, 69, f...

February 21, 2025 11:00 PM

Germany set for tricky coalition building, poll shows ahead of election

Germany's mainstream political parties lost support while the far-right AfD gained ground in one of the last polls published before the election on Sunday, pointing to likely tricky coalition building that could drag on for months. The vote comes at...

February 21, 2025 10:37 PM

EAM Jaishankar backs South Africa’s G20 priorities, calls for global collaboration

External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar on Friday expressed India's strong support for the priorities set by the South African Presidency, emphasizing their alignment with India’s own advocacy during its G20 leadership. Speaking at the G20 Foreign ...

February 21, 2025 9:46 PM

“Never been any animosity between Indian languages”: PM Modi

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday emphasized that India’s languages have always influenced and enriched each other, asserting that there has never been any animosity among them. Addressing the 98th Akhil Bharatiya Marathi Sahitya Sammelan at V...

February 21, 2025 8:20 PM

PM Modi inaugurates 98th Akhil Bharatiya Marathi Sahitya Sammelan in Delhi after seven decades

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday inaugurated the 98th Akhil Bharatiya Marathi Sahitya Sammelan at Vigyan Bhavan in Delhi, marking the first time in 71 years that the prestigious literary conference is being held in the national capital. The thr...

February 21, 2025 8:08 PM

Airlines warned as Chinese navy holds live-fire exercises off Australia

Australia's Foreign Minister Penny Wong raised concerns with her Chinese counterpart on Friday over inadequate notice given by the Chinese navy of a rare live-fire exercise in international waters between Australia and New Zealand that forced airline...

February 21, 2025 6:15 PM

Bangladesh should not normalize terrorism, says MEA

External Affairs Minister (EAM) S. Jaishankar, during his meeting with Bangladesh Foreign Affairs Advisor Touhid Hossain in Muscat earlier this week, conveyed that it is important for Bangladesh to not normalize terrorism, the Ministry of External Af...

February 21, 2025 5:40 PM

Libyan PM stresses support for UN efforts to enhance stability in Libya

Dbeibah made the remarks during a meeting with Hanna Serwaa Tetteh, the newly-appointed Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Libya and Head of the UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), in the capital Tripoli, according to a statemen...

February 21, 2025 5:22 PM

India no longer dependent on foreign aid for tackling AIDS: NACO

India is no longer dependent on foreign aid or funding to tackle the burden of AIDS, said Dr Uday Bhanu Das, Deputy Director General of the National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO), under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, on Friday. Speaki...