- Sunday, April 20, 2025
INDIAN prime minister Narendra Modi held a series of bilateral meetings with several world leaders on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly session here, including with German chancellor Angela Merkel, Italian prime minister Giuseppe Conte, and Emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad. Modi, who arrived here to attend…
MEGASTAR Amitabh Bachchan, who has been shining on the firmament of Hindi cinema for close to five decades now, has been selected for the prestigious Dada Saheb Phalke award 2019, for his inestimable contribution to Indian cinema. For the unversed, Dada Saheb Phalke award is Indian cinema's highest honour for…
THE Kashmir Press Club (KPC) has denounced the communication gag in the valley and called for resumption of the services as the clampdown continued for the 51st day on Tuesday (24). THE Kashmir Press Club (KPC) has denounced the communication gag in the valley and called for resumption of the…
STATE Bank of India (SBI) has launched its digital banking application (app) YONO for its SBI (UK) Limited customers. The app was launched by SBI Chairman Rajnish Kumar at an event co-hosted with the UK India Business Council (UKIBC). SBI has now decided to make YONO global, starting with the…
INDIA gets maximum foreign students from Nepal followed by Afghanistan while Karnataka is the favourite city for foreigners to pursue higher education in India, according to the data from country’s ministry of human resource development (HRD). The number of males is higher than that of female students from foreign countries…
PAKISTAN on Tuesday (24) rejected as "completely baseless" the Indian Army chief's statement on the reactivation of a Jaish-e-Muhammed (JeM) terror camp in Balakot that was destroyed by the IAF in February. Army chief General Bipin Rawat in Chennai on Monday said Pakistan has reactivated the Balakot terror camp very…
AN earthquake of magnitude 5.8 shook northern Pakistan on Tuesday (24), killing eight people and injuring 100, government and police officials said. Media photos and video showed a collapsed building and cracks in roads large enough to swallow cars in Mirpur, a town in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir near India. District commissioner…
THE Mangalyaan mission, which was initially meant to last six months, completed five years of orbiting Mars on Tuesday (24) and is likely to continue for some more time, Indian space agency chief K Sivan said. In the last five years, the Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), India's first interplanetary endeavour,…
AHEAD of the festival season, United Arab Emirates (UAE) has agreed to supply extra cooking gas LPG to India to make up for the shortfall in supplies from its principal supplier Saudi Arabia. While oil supplies from Saudi Arabia have not been impacted in the aftermath of a massive attack…
THE Army has removed 130 tonnes of solid waste from the Siachen glacier as part of a mega drive to protect the eco-system of the world's most dangerous battlefield. Presence of sizeable numbers of troops saddled the glacier with tonnes of waste and the Army is determined to rid the…
