Rajneesh Gupta presents all the important numbers after the third week of IPL 2020.
The flowers are a national symbol of Japan, and the annual display draws huge crowds -- and the attention of social media users.
Modi will embark on a three-nation tour beginning March 30 during which he will attend the crucial Nuclear Security Summit in Washington, India-EU Summit in Brussels and travel to Saudi Arabia, a key partner of India in the sensitive Gulf region.
'Any 'de-escalation' that brings down tensions will deprive the BJP of a plank with seamless possibilities to project PM Modi as the 'Iron prime minister' and hype up jingoism in the upcoming election campaign,' notes Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will pay floral tributes to the Gandhi statue and visit the historic Lincoln Memorial and the recently established memorial for Martin Luther King Jr in the American capital.
Biden's lengthy remarks on Afghanistan contained no condemnatory references to the Taliban, observes Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar, who played a stellar role in beginning India's systemic dealings in Afghanistan in 1994.
Describing it as a "spectacle in Houston", the Wall Street Journal said Trump is hoping to pick up a larger share of this growing voters bloc in 2020 than he did in 2016. Trump understands the benefit of associating with Indian Americans, whose contributions are crucial to the prosperity of both nations in the 21st century, it added.
'Open conflict would be a disaster for both China and India.'
Delhi's performance at home is woeful, but having registered a win after two consecutive losses at the Kotla, the Shreyas Iyer-led outfit is high on confidence.
Royal Challengers Bangalore will look to shrug off the disappointment of two back-to-back defeats and get back to winning ways when they taken on Sunrisers Hyderabad as they aim to seal their place in the play-offs, in the IPL match, in Sharjah, on Saturday.
While T20 is primarily a batsmen-dominated format, the bowlers have evolved over the years and left a mark with their clever innovations.
May said Britain and the US must "lead together" again and play their role in safeguarding global security even as she welcomed the rise of democratic allies like India.
The 3-0 series win against the West Indies could be called a precursor and the real battle begins now against Quinton de Kock's Proteas who are also in the midst of a tough transition.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is expected to undertake a six-day visit to the United States from September 20, during which he will have a bilateral meeting with President Barack Obama in Washington besides attending the United Nations General Assembly in New York.
According to report in the China Daily, Washington could be furthering its geopolitical interests in the region by acting through its private non-governmental organisation, the National Endowment for Democracy (NED).
The famous 'Gujarat model' won't work in Delhi. This is a spoilt city-state with a population that's never paid up front for anything
The community is planning to welcome Modi at every possible location where he could be available during his three-day stay.
United States President Joe Biden has nominated Indian-American lawyer and rights activist Kiran Ahuja to head the Office of Personnel Management, a federal agency that manages America's more than two million civil servants.
Purnendu Maji and Srinivas Bhogle list IPL 2020's 50 Most Valuable Players up to Game 34.
The restart has divided opinion among the players, with some 200,000 new COVID-19 cases being reported globally every day and international travel restrictions still in place.
For KKR, the biggest cause of concern will be the availability of big-hitter Andre Russell, who hurt his knee when he dived into the advertisement boards after missing a catch on Saturday.
The CAA does not change basic structure of Constitution, MEA spokesperson said at a media briefing.
Nawaz Sharif was the last Pakistani prime minister to visit the US on an official trip in October 2015.
>Putin's last-minute intervention with PM salvages $5.43 bn pact.
'A nation that has no long-term strategic intent, and whose leaders can be easily manipulated through flattery, is a banana republic. Unlike China, which intends to rule the world, India, which can only imagine itself as a second-rate power, will remain one.'
'Throughout the nearly 20-year US-led war, State sponsorship from Pakistan has been a constant.'
The left-hander smashed a 113-ball 151 (8x4, 10x6) to power Madhya Pradesh to victory.
Over 600 slots at three major airports - Heathrow, Dubai and New York's JFK International - could be at stake.
BWith a distracted president brooding in the White House, Pompeo seems to think his day has come. He seems to be pushing a personal agenda before a target audience in America, observes Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
To build one's political and ideological arguments on the dead bodies piling up outside our crematoriums is despicable and breaches the basic tenet of human civility, argues Vivek Gumaste.
'From the Indian perspective, Trump's invitation to Imran Khan to visit the White House is a bitter pill to swallow,' points out Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
Here's a glimpse of all that happened around the world last week in images.
Check out this collection of smashing images of Buddhist monks in a protest rally, military parade at the Zocalo square in Mexico City and much more.
He did not believe in any fiscal puritanism. In 2012, when it was almost certain that the government will breach the 2012-13 fiscal deficit target, he wrote that in abnormal times, abnormal measures are required to get back to normalcy.
Shaktikanta Das said in Washington, DC, that there was nothing sacrosanct about the 25 bps rate cut and that monetary policy could be well served by calibrating the size of the policy rate to the dynamics of the situation, and the size of the change itself could convey the stance of policy.
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Images from Thursday's second T20I between India and Bangladesh, at Rajkot.
Hundreds of thousands of people have flooded the American capital on Saturday for the "March for Our Lives" to support tougher gun controls and protest Congress's refusal to consider them. The event is being led by the student survivors of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting on February 14 when 17 were slaughtered by a teenage gunman carrying a legally-purchased AR-15.
How the two South Asian neighbours will interact with each other in the coming months will be decided by the two prime ministers in Washington.
The United States forces in Afghanistan handed over the full control of a key US-run detention center -- the Bagram prison -- to the Afghanistan defence ministry on Monday, putting an end to a source of tension between Kabul and its main ally Washington.
