- Sunday, April 20, 2025
PRESIDENT Donald Trump will join Indian prime minister Narendra Modi at a massive gathering of Indian-Americans in Houston, the White House said Sunday (15), in a symbolic show of the bond between the two leaders and countries. The September 22 rally- dubbed, with a touch of Texan twang, "Howdy, Modi!"…
INDIA has initiated a project to digitally map the country with a resolution of 10 centimetres, using drones and technologies such as Artificial Intelligence and big data, a senior government official said on Monday. The herculean task was taken up by the Survey of India, part of the Department of…
A GROUP OF MINISTERS (GoM) set up to look into various aspects of how to prevent sexual harassment at workplace and strengthen legal frameworks met Monday (16) and discussed on future action, officials said. The GoM is headed by Indian Home Minister Amit Shah while Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, Human…
CONGRESS leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Monday (16) hit out at Indian Labour Minister Santosh Kumar Gangwar over his "dearth of quality people" remark, asking him for figures of how many jobs have been given to north Indians in the last five years. The Congress general secretary also posted a…
INDIAN actor Varun Sharma says his character in Nitesh Tiwari's "Chhichhore" has opened doors for people to look at him for roles that go beyond the genre of comedy. Varun's portrayal of Sexa, an affable but emotional character, got him some of the best reviews of his career and the…
THE Supreme Court on Monday (16) asked the Indian government and Jammu and Kashmir authorities to see that normalcy is restored on a selective basis in the state while keeping in mind national interest. A bench of Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and justices S A Bobde and S A Nazeer…
NON-COMPLIANT state units like Tamil Nadu and Haryana risk losing their voting rights in the BCCI but their cricketing activities will not be affected after the elections, COA chief Vinod Rai said here on Monday (16). The Supreme Court-appointed Committee of Administrators (COA), which last week extended the deadline of…
FORMER Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Farooq Abdullah, under detention since August 5, has now been booked under a provision of the stringent Public Safety Act (PSA) which allows authorities to detain an individual for six months without trial, official sources said on Monday (16). The tough law against the…
CONSUMER goods giant Unilever released a list of its global tea suppliers on Thursday (12), bolstering a drive to stamp out worker exploitation and modern-day slavery on plantations. The move by the Anglo-Dutch food group - which buys 10 per cent of the world's tea supply and owns at least…
INDIA and Nepal officially opened South Asia's first cross-border oil pipeline on Tuesday (10), a project seen as part of New Delhi's efforts to increase its influence in the Himalayan nation where China is also making deep inroads. Indian prime minister Narendra Modi and his Nepal counterpart KP Sharma Oli…
