WELLINGTON: New Zealander Brett Randell has made history Sunday by becoming the first bowler to take five wickets with five balls in a first class match. Randall was playing for Central Districts against Northern Districts in a domestic Plunkett Shield match and his victims included former Black Caps opener Jeet Raval and current New Zealand
Iran War News: Saudi Arabia thwarts drone attack on Riyadh diplomatic quarter The Saudi defence ministry announced Sunday that it intercepted a drone targeting the diplomatic quarter in the capital, Riyadh. Officials confirmed that the drone was successfully shot down, resulting in no civilian injuries or material damage. Israel Iran War: Israeli strike on Beirut
As the region’s fault lines shift decisively from an Israeli-Palestinian conflict to an Israeli-Iranian confrontation, and India’s strategic ambiguity is tested by real events, New Delhi faces not merely a recalibration but a potential collapse of one of its most carefully constructed diplomatic architectures. When India established full diplomatic relations with Israel in January 1992
Air India Group said it will operate about 50 flights connecting India with Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Muscat, Jeddah, Ras Al Khaimah and Sharjah on 7 March, combining both scheduled services and additional ad-hoc rotations cleared by regulators. The announcement came after partial reopening of Saudi and Omani airspace allowed the flag-carrier to step up repatriation
India’s Ministry of Civil Aviation (MoCA) reported on 7 March that 40 inbound flights carrying 7,205 passengers from the Middle East landed in India on 5 March. The cumulative number of evacuees since the Iran–Israel conflict erupted has now reached nearly 15,000. For 6 March, Indian carriers have filed plans for 51 additional flights, subject
India has been letting an Iranian naval vessel dock in its port at Kochi, with an Indian official calling it the “humane thing to do.” An Indian government source told Reuters the Lavan docked at India’s southern port of Kochi on Wednesday. That’s the same day that a U.S. submarine sank the torpedoed the Iranian warship “DENA” off
Navi Mumbai: Panvel corporator Arvind Mhatre (50) of Bharatiya Shetkari Kamgar Paksha (BSKP), which formed an alliance (Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi) with Indian National Congress (INC) as opposition in the Panvel Municipal Corporation, filed a writ petition through his advocate, Chetan Nagare, in the Bombay High Court on March 4, seeking an order (writ of mandamus)
Navi Mumbai: A post on X by state forest minister Ganesh Naik saying some captured leopards will be shifted to the Vantara wildlife centre in Jamnagar has raised the hackles of wildlife activists. Sources in the forest department said 67 captured leopards will be translocated to various other places, including 50 to Vantara, to reduce
Synopsis International Women’s Day quotes 2026: International Women’s Day celebrates women’s global achievements and gender equality. Its origins trace to early 20th-century labor movements and a 1910 proposal for international observance. The United Nations recognized the day in 1975. March 8 marks a significant Russian women’s strike in 1917. Inspiring quotes from prominent women are
NEW DELHI: Aiming to reach women in distress, the National Commission for Women in coordination with state women’s commissions will hold marathon ‘Mahila Jan Sunwais’ (public hearings) across the country starting from Monday to cover 500 districts spread out in 25 states and Union Territories till March 14. Through this nationwide effort, the commission aims