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Published – November 03, 2025 06:19 am IST
Trophy presentation during the ICC Women’s World Cup Final match India vs South Africa at the DY Patil Stadium in Navi Mumbai on Sunday, November 2, 2025. | Photo Credit: EMMANUAL YOGINI
On the eve of the final, a reporter asked India captain Harmanpreet Kaur how she would celebrate if her side won the Women’s ODI World Cup. “For big occasions, you don’t have to plan anything because we have visualised it and dreamt about it so many times. It’s only about what you remember and what comes out when it happens,” she gushed with a big smile on her face. A little over 24 hours later, with a capacity crowd carrying the team in its chants and prayers at the D.Y. Patil Stadium on Sunday (November 2, 2025), the Indian women’s team made history as it beat South Africa by 52 runs in the final to clinch its maiden ICC crown.
The Tri-Services Exercise (TSE-2025) “Trishul” will commence on Monday, with the Indian Navy leading the large-scale joint drills alongside the Indian Army and Indian Air Force across the creek and desert sectors of Rajasthan and Gujarat, extending into the northern Arabian Sea.
President Donald Trump says that Chinese President Xi Jinping has given him assurances that Beijing would take no action toward its long-stated goal of unifying Taiwan with mainland China while the Republican leader is in office.
Bihar Police has so far arrested 80 people, including JD(U)’s Mokama candidate Anant Singh, in connection with the murder of Jan Suraaj Party supporter Dular Chand Yadav, a senior officer said on Sunday (November 2, 2025). Mr. Singh, along with his associates Manikant Thakur and Ranjeet Ram, were arrested in the intervening night of Saturday and Sunday.
Trinamool Congress MLA and former West Bengal Minister Jyotipriyo Mallick was assaulted by a youth who intruded into his residence at the Salt Lake area on Sunday (November 2, 2025) night, a senior police official said. The youth, identified as Abhishek Das, was later arrested by police and is being interrogated.
At least 15 persons were killed and two injured when a tempo traveller carrying passengers crashed into a parked truck on the Bharatmala Expressway at Matoda, near Phalodi, in Rajasthan on Sunday. All the deceased were residents of Sursagar in Jodhpur, who were returning after visiting a temple in Bikaner district’s Kolayat.
A delegation of foreign diplomats stationed in India is on a two-day visit to poll-bound Bihar to experience the election season in the State, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) announced on Sunday. Dr. Vijay Chauthhaiwale, in-charge of the foreign affairs department of the BJP, said in a press note that diplomats from Japan, Indonesia, Australia, the United Kingdom, Bhutan, and South Africa are among the countries that have sent their resident diplomats to Bihar for the November 2-3 tour.
Russia has launched its latest nuclear submarine to be armed with a ‘Poseidon’ nuclear drone, also known as ‘doomsday missile’ capable of “wiping out” coastal nations, according to media reports. The nuclear submarine ‘Khabarovsk’ was launched by Russian Defence Minister Andrei Belousov at a solemn ceremony in the presence of Russian Naval Chief Admiral Alexander Moiseyev and other top shipbuilding officials in Severodvinsk at Sevmash shipyards.
A 23-year-old woman Maoist has surrendered in Madhya Pradesh’s Balaghat district, the first such case in the State since the introduction of its new rehabilitation policy launched in August 2023, officers said. Sunita, a resident of Bhairamgarh tehsil of Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur district and a member of the GRB (Gondia, Rajanandgaon Balaghat) division of the Maoists, surrendered at the Chauriya camp of Madhya Pradesh’s anti-naxal Hawk Force on Saturday (November 1, 2025) night.
As Leh district in Ladakh ceases to have any elected representatives from October 31, 2025, with the five-year term of the hill council coming to an end, elections to the local body are likely to be held only after ongoing talks between civil society groups and the Centre take a decisive turn, officials said. Ladakh MP Mohammad Haneefa is now its only representative.
Published – November 03, 2025 06:19 am IST
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