- Sunday, April 20, 2025
CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury on Monday alleged that despite the PMC Bank depositors being in "dire straits", the government does not care about their plight, days after two deaths have occurred as a result of the crisis. So far, four depositors have lost their lives apparently due to the…
CONGRESS leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has no understanding of the economy and the world is mocking India due to his government's divisive politics that pitted people against each other. Addressing an election rally here, Gandhi said Modi keeps diverting the attention of the…
PARTIES in West Bengal cutting across political lines unequivocally criticised union minister Piyush Goyal for his comment against Nobel laureate Abhijit Banerjee and said it reflects the "narrow" mindset of BJP and the saffron camp. Union minister Piyush Goyal on Friday dubbed Indian-American Abhijit Banerjee, who won the 2019 Nobel…
FAT can accumulate in the lungs of people, particularly those who are overweight or obese, researchers have shown for the first time. Scientists already know that people who are overweight or obese are more likely to suffer with wheezing and asthma, but the reasons for this have not been completely…
AN Indian tourist has been detained by the Royal Bhutan Police for allegedly desecrating a 'chorten' in the Buddhist kingdom, according to a media report on Friday. Abhijit Ratan Hajare, who is from Maharashtra, was part of a 15-bike convoy touring the Himalayan nation, The Bhutanese reported. The group was…
ATTACKING the Congress, Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday asked its leader Rahul Gandhi what four generations of his family did for adivasis during their 70-year rule in the country and stressed the region will be free of Naxalism in the next five years. Addressing a poll rally at…
INDIAN billionaire Gautam Adani-run Adani Group has signed a deal with UAE’s oil firm Adnoc, German chemical giant BASF, and Austria’s Borealis to study the feasibility of setting up a £3.11 billion chemical complex in the Indian state of Gujarat by 2024. The four companies have signed a memorandum of…
MORE THAN 10,000 trucks laden with apples left Kashmir this week in a sign that the territory is returning to normal, according to officials and government data, after India imposed a clampdown on the region in August. Involving some 3.5 million people, apples are the core of Indian Kashmir's economy,…
WHEN night falls in the Indian village of Nabipur, the backyard furnaces come to life, burning waste tyres from the West, making the air thick with acrid smoke and the soil black with soot. Not long ago, Nabipur was a quiet farming village in northern India. Now the village is…
THE BJP on Thursday stepped up its campaign to highlight Veer Savarkar's contribution to India's freedom movement, with its president Amit Shah asserting that had it not been for the Hindutva ideologue the first war of independence in 1857 would have been merely regarded as a revolt. While Shah paid…
