Accra: India and Ghana on Wednesday elevated their ties to the level of a comprehensive partnership after Prime Minister Narendra Modi held wide-ranging talks with President John Dramani Mahama. In his media statement shortly after the talks, Prime Minister Modi said both sides have set a target of doubling the two-way trade in the next…
Accra: Prime Minister Narendra Modi was conferred with ‘The Officer of the Order of the Star of Ghana’, the country’s national honour, for his “distinguished statesmanship and influential global leadership”. Modi received the award on Wednesday from the Ghanaian President John Dramani Mahama. “Honoured to be conferred with ‘The Officer of the Order of the…
Accra: India and Ghana have elevated their ties to the level of a comprehensive partnership, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi reaffirming that New Delhi is a co-traveller in the African nation’s development journey. Modi made the remarks on Wednesday after holding wide-ranging talks with Ghanaian President John Dramani Mahama. In his media statement, Prime Minister…
London: India’s Yuki Bhambri and his American partner Robert Galloway progressed to the second round of the men’s doubles event at Wimbledon with a straight-sets win over Romain Arneodo of Monaco and Manuel Guinard of France here on Wednesday. The 16th-seeded Indo-American pair defeated Arneodo and Guinard 7-6(8) 6-4 in a first-round match that lasted…
Birmingham: Shubman Gill batted with plenty of patience and resolve to complete his second successive hundred but India squandered the early advantage against England to settle for 310 for five at stumps on a shared day one of the second Test here on Wednesday. India adopted a measured approach with the bat after picking three…
New York/Washington: The US has expressed hope that it can complete several major pending American defence sales to India, as it stressed that Washington and Delhi are “mutually aware” of the security concerns in the Indo-Pacific region. External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar met US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth on Tuesday at the Pentagon and said…
Patna: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Wednesday asserted that the Narendra Modi government will not hesitate to eliminate terrorists, wherever they are, and that no distinction will be made between masterminds and the regimes which sponsor them. The former BJP president’s stern message to Pakistan, without mentioning the neighbouring country by name, came in his…
Accra (Ghana): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday arrived in Ghana on a two-day visit during which he will hold talks with the West African country’s top leadership and review the strong bilateral partnership. In a special gesture, Ghana President John Dramani Mahama received Prime Minister Modi at the airport, where he was accorded a…
MS Shanker It began with a phone call. An innocuous ring on a Monday evening. Within ten days, KN Radhakrishna (name changed), a 60-something retired resident of Mehdipatnam, Hyderabad, saw his entire life’s savings—over ₹1.36 crore—vanish into the digital ether. Not to a robber with a weapon, not to an elaborate Ponzi scheme, but to…
So, MS Dhoni wants to trademark “Mr Cool”. Yes, you read that right. Our man from Ranchi has moved the papers in Kolkata to officially own the tag that millions of cricket fans unofficially stamped on him long ago. As someone who’s shared dressing rooms with hotheads and heartbreakers, I’ll say this upfront—Dhoni has every…
