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Kumar put on an outstanding bowling display, becoming the first Indian to take four wickets on IPL debut.

A sparkling debut performance by medium pacer Ashwani Kumar, powered up by a single banana, helped Mumbai Indians register their first win of the IPL season, downing Kolkata Knight Riders by eight wickets.

Kumar’s stunning but highly unexpected 4-wickets-for-24-runs effort, coupled with an overall disciplined bowling performance by the home team, restricted champions Kolkata to a modest…

CK Hutchison, one of the largest conglomerates in Hong Kong, earlier this month announced plans to sell its stake in two ports on the Panama Canal to a group of US investors led by BlackRock.

The plan, part of a $22.8bn megadeal that would grant the consortium control over more than 40 ports in 23 countries, followed complaints by United States President Donald Trump that the key shipping route was under Chinese control.

CK Hutchison shares soared following news of the deal on March 4, but…

China’s military has launched a new round of military exercises around Taiwan in its latest “warning” to Taipei’s democratic government.

The People’s Liberation Army said on Tuesday that the drills served as a “powerful deterrent” to “separatist forces” advocating Taiwanese independence.

The exercises are intended to test the “combat readiness” of China’s army, navy, air force, and rocket force and their ability to work together during a joint military operation, the…

These are the key events on day 1,132 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.

These are the key events from Monday, March 31:

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• Russian forces shelled a front-line settlement in Ukraine’s southeastern Zaporizhia region, killing a 66-year-old woman and wounding five others.
• The number of people wounded in Russia’s attack on Ukraine’s second-largest city, Kharkiv, has risen to three.
• Moscow’s Ministry of Defence said Ukraine had attacked energy facilities in Russia’s Bryansk region…

United States President Donald Trump has said his long-awaited reciprocal tariffs will be lower than what other countries charge as uncertainty over his biggest trade announcement yet continues to roil global stocks.

Speaking at the White House on Monday, Trump said the tariffs he is preparing to announce on Wednesday will be “nicer” than the trade policies of US trading partners.

“We are going to be very nice by comparison to what they were. The numbers will be lower than what they…