Twenty-two time Grand Slam champion Rafa Nadal fell 7-5 6-4 to Czech Jiri Lehecka in the fourth round of the Madrid Open on Tuesday, marking his final appearance at a tournament he has won five times. In just over two hours, a feisty Lehecka thwarted Nadal’s hopes of reaching his 100th Masters 1000 quarter-final after […]
The Indian Womens cricket team won the second T20 international match by 19 runs against host Bangladesh based on the DLS method played at Sylhet International Cricket Stadium on Tuesday. Earlier, the host Bangladesh team won the toss and decided to bat first. Bangladesh team allout in 119 runs after playing full 20 overs. Bangladeshi […]
Bitcoin slid by almost 6 per cent on Wednesday, having posted its worst monthly performance in April since late 2022, as investors pulled money out of cryptocurrencies ahead of an interest rate decision by the Federal Reserve later. The value of the world’s most traded cryptocurrency fell by nearly 16 per cent in April, as […]
Hundreds residents of Indonesia’s Tagulandang island were waiting at the island’s port to be evacuated on Wednesday, footage from National Search and Rescue Agency showed, while grey smoke continued to erupt from Ruang volcano. Indonesia’s Ruang volcano erupted on Tuesday, spewing lava that prompted authorities to evacuate more than 12,000 people from the nearby Tagulandang […]
The historic May Day is being observed today in Bangladesh and elsewhere across the world in a befitting manner. It is a public holiday in Bangladesh. This year’s theme of May- Day in Bangladesh is ‘Sramik-Malik Gorbo Desh, Smart Hobey Bangladesh’. Political parties, worker’s union and other organisations working to ensure Labour Rights organised a […]
New York City police raided Columbia University late on Tuesday to arrest dozens of pro-Palestinian demonstrators, some of whom had seized an academic building, and to remove a protest encampment the Ivy League school had sought to dismantle for nearly two weeks. Shortly after police moved in, Columbia University President Minouche Shafik released a letter […]
South Korea has held talks about joining part of the AUKUS defence deal between the U.S., Britain and Australia, Defence Minister Shin Won-sik said on Wednesday, only weeks after the pact said it would consider including Japan. Formed in 2021, AUKUS is a two-stage security pact to counteract China’s growing power in the Asia Pacific […]
India and Croatia on Tuesday convened the 11th session of Foreign Office Consultations (FOC) in New Delhi. Both sides conducted a comprehensive review of their bilateral relations, focusing on enhancing cooperation across various sectors including trade and economics, defence and maritime affairs, science and technology, innovation, research and development, tourism, culture, and people-to-people ties. The […]
The judge overseeing Donald Trump’s criminal hush money trial fined the former U.S. president $9,000 for contempt of court on Tuesday and said he would consider jailing him if he continued to violate a gag order. In a written order, Justice Juan Merchan said the fine may not be enough to serve as a deterrent […]
Foreign portfolio investors (FPIs) offloaded Indian stocks in April, following two consecutive months of being net buyers. The ongoing geopolitical crisis in the Middle East, coupled with the strength of US bond yields, likely pushed investors to withdraw funds from their portfolios. Foreign portfolio investors (FPIs), who continued to remain net buyers for the third […]
