Sport

India to host MotoGP for first time in 2023

Editorial Bureau September 30, 2022

India will stage a MotoGP race for the first time from 2023, organisers said on Friday, in a bid to expand audiences to the country of 1.4 billion people. The inaugural race is scheduled to take place at Buddh International Circuit in Uttar Pradesh, to the south of New Delhi. The track has

Sport

Starc out of Australia’s Twenty20 cricket tour to India

Editorial Bureau September 14, 2022

Brisbane (Australia)- Pace bowler Mitchell Starc and allrounders Mitch Marsh and Marcus Stoinis withdrew Wednesday from Australia’s tour to India because of injuries and will instead prepare at home for the Twenty20 World Cup title defense. Starc played a leading role in Australia’s one-day international series wins over Zimbabwe and top-ranked New Zealand in north […]

UK

UK slips behind India to become world’s sixth biggest economy

Editorial Bureau September 3, 2022

The former British colony leaped past the UK in the final three months of 2021 to become the fifth-biggest economy. The calculation is based in US dollars, and India extended its lead in the first quarter, according to GDP figures from the International Monetary Fund. The UK’s decline down the international rankings is an unwelcome […]

Asia World

Chinese ship docks in Sri Lanka despite India, and US concerns

Editorial Bureau August 16, 2022

A Chinese research vessel docked at Sri Lanka’s Chinese-run southern port of Hambantota on Tuesday despite concerns from India and the United States about its alleged spying activities. Port officials said that the Yuan Wang 5 entered the deep-sea port after securing permission to enter Sri Lankan waters on the condition it would not engage […]

Asia World

At 75, India’s democracy is under pressure like never before

Editorial Bureau August 12, 2022

New Delhi(India)- The Aug. 5 demonstrations by India’s main opposition Congress party against soaring food prices and unemployment began like any other recent protest — an electorally weak opposition taking to the New Delhi streets against Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s massively popular government. The protests, however, quickly took a turn when key Congress lawmakers led

Sport

India beat West Indies by 3 runs in ODI series opener

Editorial Bureau July 23, 2022

Oval(UK)- India stymied West Indies just enough in the death overs to win their opening one-day international by a measly three runs at Queen’s Park Oval on Friday. India put up 308-7 and West Indies’ chase ended on a tense 305-6. The home side needed 15 runs off the last over but the yorkers of […]

Asia Europe World

UN projects world population will reach 8 billion on Nov. 15

Editorial Bureau July 12, 2022

The United Nations estimated Monday that the world’s population will reach 8 billion on Nov. 15 and that India will replace China as the world’s most populous nation next year. In a report released on World Population Day, the U.N. also said global population growth fell below 1% in 2020 for the first time since […]

Asia World

South Asia floods hampering access to food, clean water

Editorial Bureau June 20, 2022

Dhaka(Bangladesh)-Days of floods are challenging authorities Monday in South Asia as they try to deliver food and drinking water to shelters across submerged swaths of India and Bangladesh. The high water brought on by seasonal monsoon downpours has already claimed more than a dozen lives, displaced hundreds of thousands and flooded millions of homes. Bangladesh called

Finance World

“US economy has problems”- Biden after talks with Fumio Kishida

Editorial Bureau May 23, 2022

Biden launched a trade agreement with Indo-Pacific nations and warned US economy about inflation. Tokyo(Japan)- After talks with Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, Biden acknowledged the US economy has “problems”. But said they are “less consequential than the rest of the world has.” President Joe Biden launched a new trade agreement with

Asia

India bans exports of wheat, citing threat to food security

Editorial Bureau May 14, 2022

NEW DELHI — India has banned exports of wheat effective immediately, citing a risk to its food security, partly due to the war in Ukraine. A notice in the government gazette by the Directorate of Foreign Trade, dated Friday, said a spike in global prices for wheat was threatening the food security of India and […]