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Watch: With last game washed out, Team India players hit the beach for game of beach volleyball

June 17, 2024 3:32 pm

Team India's final game against Canada in the group stage has been abandoned due to rain in Florida

ENG vs SCOT Highlights, T20 World Cup Match Today: Get England vs Scotland Highlights at Kensington Oval, Bridgetown, Barbados

England vs Scotland Highlights, T20 World Cup 2024: Match called off due to rain; ENG-SCO share a point each in Group B

June 05, 2024 12:29 am

England vs Scotland Highlights, T20 World Cup 2024: Jofra Archer, who had missed out on England's 2022 T20 World Cup winning squad and last year's ODI World Cup defence, made a return to the big stage at his hometown, Barbados.

Watch: Indian players meet local players and fans at Barbados

July 07, 2023 5:17 pm

The Test series starting July 12 in Dominica will mark the Indian side’s first appearance since their defeat against Australia in the 2023 World Test Championship Final

The east coast of Barbados, on March 3, 2023, with its rough Atlantic winds and rocky beaches, feels like another place entirely from the luxury resorts of the west coast. (Tony Cenicola/The New York Times)

An independent Barbados

March 30, 2023 5:02 pm

Now is a particularly fascinating time to visit Barbados. For one, there’s the Rihanna effect: The country’s most famous homegrown star, who revealed her second pregnancy while ascending to the heights of Phoenix’s State Farm Stadium during the Super Bowl half time show this year, has given Barbados new visibility and cachet.

Antigua and Barbuda planning vote to become republic within 3 years -media

September 12, 2022 8:24 am

The tiny Caribbean island nation, which became independent from Britain in 1981, is one of 14 Commonwealth members who share the UK monarch as their head of state.

Barbados calls snap election after becoming republic

December 28, 2021 8:43 pm

Weeks after removing Queen Elizabeth as head of state, Barbados is set for a general election. The country's ruling party currently has an overwhelming majority in parliament.

'National hero' Rihanna kept it stylish in a halter gown at Barbados' presidential inauguration

December 01, 2021 12:04 pm

The RiRi reign continues, now even stronger!

Barbados, 55 years after its independence, has become a republic

December 01, 2021 8:07 am

🔴 The declaration of a republic is more than repudiation. It is an acknowledgement, as the country's first president, Sandra Mason put it, that “We the people are Barbados”.

Barbados ditches Britain's Queen Elizabeth to become a republic

November 30, 2021 11:34 am

🔴Barbados will remain a republic within the Commonwealth, a grouping of 54 countries across Africa, Asia, the Americas and Europe.

Explained: Barbados - the world's newest republic

November 30, 2021 10:24 pm

Barbados has become the world's newest republic. Who took over as the new head? How will the transition take place? Here's a history of Barbados as a British colony, and after.

Nepal’s Home Minister Ramesh Lekhak resigns after 19 killed in ‘Gen Z’ protests

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Nepal's Home Minister Ramesh Lekhak has resigned after 19 people died during youth-led protests demanding reforms and accountability. The protests spread across major cities and police opened fire on demonstrators. Lekhak tendered his resignation to Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli during a Cabinet meeting, following calls from Nepali Congress leaders earlier in the day.

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