- Saturday, March 29, 2025
THE Election Commission of India (ECI) has left no stone unturned to ensure ‘no voter is left behind’ in the upcoming general elections kicking off on April 19. With 969 million registered voters all set to cast ballots to choose the leader and party of their preference in the world's…
X, LED by Elon Musk, has come to the rescue of an Indian-origin doctor in Canada who was facing a challenging legal battle over her tweets related to Covid-19 pandemic. The social media giant recently said that it was proud to help Dr Kulvinder Kaur Gill pay her legal fees…
INDIA'S National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Wednesday (27) made a major breakthrough in the restaurant blast case in Bengaluru by arresting a key conspirator of the incident. The development was confirmed in an official statement released on Thursday (28). It said Muzammil Shareef was picked up on Wednesday and placed…
A MAN accused of aiding in the smuggling of individuals across the US-Canada border into Minnesota, including four members of an Indian family who tragically perished in freezing conditions in 2022, on Wednesday (27) pleaded not guilty to seven counts of human smuggling, Canada's CBC News reported. Twenty-eight-year-old Harshkumar Ramanlal Patel,…
THE role of social media in political systems is increasingly becoming critical and India is no exception. The world's largest democracy has seen online campaigns -- whether positive or negative -- taking a centrestage in times of elections, be it local, state or national, and with the country set to…
INDIAN spiritual leader Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev was on Wednesday (26) discharged from Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals in New Delhi where he underwent an emergency brain surgery on March 17. The 66-year-old had been experiencing severe headaches for a few weeks but continued with his social commitments, including carrying out the rituals…
ARRHYTHMIA Alliance Pace4Life (A-A P4L), a charitable organisation, is dispatching heart rhythm specialists from Milton Keynes Hospital Foundation Trust and North Middlesex University Hospital (NMUH) to Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning (SSSIHL) in the southern Indian city of Bengaluru. Their mission is to administer life-saving treatments to 100…
A VACATION in India’s popular tourist destination of Goa turned out to be a disaster for a couple last week when they ventured into the sea despite warnings. While his wife survived, the 72-year-old Vijay Tulshidas Daswani, a British, died at Talpona beach in south Goa on Friday (22) after…
MUBADALA, an Emirati state-owned holding company that serves as one of the sovereign wealth funds of Abu Dhabi, has invested in Avanse Financial Services, an Indian non-banking financial company that provides loans to students. This is happening through the Alpha Investment Company, a Mubadala affiliate, and participation from Avendus PE…
THE Indian national election kicks off on April 19 and the massive electoral exercise in the world’s largest democracy will continue till June 1 in a seven-phase affair. The results will be announced on June 4. While the ruling National Democratic Alliance (NDA) led by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)…
