- Saturday, April 19, 2025
THE Congress staged protests in several parts of Karnataka on Wednesday (4) against the arrest of senior Congress leader D K Shivakumar by the Enforcement Directorate, in a money laundering case. Quoting reports he has received, Karnataka Home Minister Basavaraj Bommai said five to six buses were pelted with stones…
GOLD continued its rally for the second consecutive day, climbing Rs 122 to Rs 39,248 per 10 gram in the national capital on Wednesday (4) following overnight gains in the precious metal in global markets, according to HDFC Securities. Silver prices also maintained the rising trend and zoomed Rs 2,070…
INDIA’S P V Sindhu's demolition of Japan's Nozomi Okuhara in the World Championship final was "perfect execution" of a strategy which included putting a halt to the Indian ace's tendency to be repetitive, says the country's foreign badminton coach Kim Ji Hyun. Kim, a former South Korea international and coach,…
MONSOON rains stalled trains delayed flights and disrupted traffic in India's Mumbai on Wednesday (4), and forecasters warned of more wet weather for India's financial capital. Authorities advised people to stay indoors and asked schools and colleges to close for the day. "Those living near the Mithi river have been…
A BLAST at a fireworks factory in India on Wednesday (4) killed 14 people, police said, weeks ahead of a Hindu festival marked by the lighting of millions of firecrackers. It was not clear if the factory in the northern state of Punjab was a legal facility or one of…
ASIA'S heavy and expanding reliance on coal power risks cancelling out global progress towards preventing catastrophic climate change, a top United Nations official warned on Wednesday (4). While developing economies such as India, Indonesia, the Philippines and Vietnam increasingly turn to cheap coal to meet fast-growing demand for electricity, some…
BRITISH Pakistani groups-led protests turned violent outside the Indian High Commission in London on Tuesday (3) resulting in the arrest of two people. The Indian authorities will take up with the UK the matter of damage inflicted to the Indian High Commission in London during the protests yesterday, media has…
PAKISTAN'S Punjab Governor Chaudhry Muhammad Sarwar says that the alleged abduction and conversion of a teenage Sikh girl who was married to a Muslim man has been "amicably" resolved between the two families. Jagjit Kaur's conversion and her marriage to Mohammad Hassan snowballed into a controversy after her family issued…
A “big” free trade agreement (FTA) was among the major issues discussed with Indian prime minister Narendra Modi during a meeting on the sidelines of the G7 summit in August, British prime minister Boris Johnson said. Johnson stated in the House of Commons on Tuesday (3) that he had an "extremely good conversation"…
INDIAN sports minister Kiren Rijiju has written a letter to UK secretary of state for digital, culture, media and sport (DCMS) Nicky Morgan, seeking her intervention for the inclusion of shooting in 2022 Birmingham Commonwealth Games. For the first time since 1974, shooting has been excluded from the Games roster…
