- Wednesday, April 16, 2025
LORD RAMI RANGER says he owes “everything to a remarkable woman who was my mother” as he stresses that women’s empowerment “is a necessity and not a choice”. Making his maiden speech in the House of Lords recently, he noted that it was “unfortunate that even today, we live in…
THE World Health Organisation has lauded the Narendra Modi-led Indian government’s efforts to contain the coronavirus pandemic. Speaking to the media after a meeting with the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) on Tuesday (17), Henk Bekedam, the WHO representative to India, said: “I think the commitment of the Indian…
INDIA plans to take advantage of low prices for oil from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates to top up its strategic petroleum reserves (SPR), say sources in the know. Global oil prices have fallen around 40 per cent in March as the impact of the coronavirus pandemic has…
THE Conservative Party has appointed councillors Reena Ranger OBE and Ameet Jogia as co-chairs of Conservative Friends of India (CF India). Ranger was elected a district councillor for Moor Park & Eastbury in 2014, and re-elected in 2018. She had also contested as a parliamentary candidate in 2017. She had…
INDIA has evacuated 1,444 nationals from different COVID-19 infected countries in the past weeks. These include 766 from China, 124 from Japan, 336 from Iran and 218 from Italy so far. The country has carried out the latest rescue missions in Italy and Iran, worst COVID-19 affected countries after China.…
THE total number of positive COVID-19 cases in India jumped to 114 as on Monday (16), a health ministry official said. As part of stepping up the vigil, India prohibited travel of passengers from member countries of the European Union, Turkey and the UK to India with effect from March…
OVER 450 Indians, including students, stranded in coronavirus-hit Iran and Italy were brought back by two flights on Sunday (15) and were quarantined at facilities in Delhi and Rajasthan. A total of 218 Indians, mostly students, from Milan landed at around 9.45am at the Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA) and…
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has proposed setting up an emergency fund to fight the coronavirus pandemic in South Asia, with New Delhi pledging $10 million to get it going, on Sunday (15). The move came as the number of confirmed infections in the country rose to 108. "Any of us…
THE Indian Embassy in the US asked the large Indian students’ community to avoid all non-essential domestic and international travel. The US president Donald Trump on Friday (13) declared a national emergency to combat the novel coronavirus. There are over 200,000 Indian students studying in various educational institutions and universities…
INDIAN software major Infosys has vacated one of the buildings in Bangalore, South India, after a team member was suspected for coronavirus (COVID-19). As many as 30,000 software professionals work in the 81-acre green campus. “To ensure preparedness, we are evacuating only the IIPM building as a precautionary measure on receiving…
