- Saturday, April 19, 2025
JAMMU AND KASHMIR (JK) state administration will organise a three-day world investors’ summit in a bid to boost the region’s economic development. The three-day-long summit is scheduled to start from October 12 in Srinagar, the biggest city in JK region. The Confederation of Indian Industries (CII), an industry body will…
INDIA issued a fresh flood alert Wednesday (14) for parts of the southern state of Kerala, as the nationwide death toll from the annual monsoon deluge rose to at least 244. Authorities warned Kerala locals of heavy rainfall over the next 24-48 hours in some of the worst affected regions…
THE British government is seeking to reach a compromise with India over the South Asian country's threat to boycott the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham in 2022 over the exclusion of shooting from the programme. Indian shooters accounted for 16 of the country's 66 medals at last year's Gold Coast Games…
THE Indian government said Tuesday (13) it is easing its lockdown in Kashmir in a ‘phased manner’ after cutting phone and internet access for over a week to prevent protests over its decision to end the Himalayan region's autonomy. Fearing unrest, India cut communications and imposed a curfew in Kashmir…
MEASLES cases nearly tripled globally during the first seven months of the year compared to the same period in 2018, the World Health Organization said Tuesday (13), amid growing concern over public resistance to the vaccine. So far this year, 364,808 measles cases were reported around the world, compared to…
THE death toll from India's monsoon floods climbed to 202 on Tuesday (13) as heavy rainfall kept pounding coastal regions in the west and south. Authorities have already moved more than 1.2 million people to relief camps. The southern tourist hotspot of Kerala, which was hit by its worst floods…
INDIAN authorities need more time to restore order in Kashmir, a Supreme Court justice said on Tuesday (13) as a security clampdown entered a ninth day since New Delhi revoked the region's special status, triggering protests. The court is hearing an activist's petition seeking to lift curbs on communications and…
INDIA'S domestic passenger vehicle sales fell for the ninth straight month in July, an auto industry body said on Tuesday (13), amid a deepening crisis in the country's automobile sector that has triggered large-scale job losses. The decline in sales is the worst since December 2000, when the industry sold…
UTPAL KAUL, a Hindu, has dreamt of returning to his lakeside property and peach orchard in Kashmir ever since he fled the Muslim-dominated valley three decades ago in fear of his life. It seemed like an impossible hope until last week, when the Indian government revoked Jammu and Kashmir's special…
INDIA'S Sonia Gandhi on Saturday (10) once again took the reins of the main opposition Congress party, replacing her son Rahul, who stepped down after a second straight election drubbing by prime minister Narendra Modi. The 49-year-old Rahul Gandhi, who was seeking to become the fourth member of the Nehru-Gandhi…
