- Friday, April 04, 2025
US secretary of state Mike Pompeo will tackle a host of delicate issues when he gets into New Delhi on Tuesday (25) for talks with Indian leaders, from trade to India's long-standing defence and energy ties to Russia and Iran. Relations between the US and India have dramatically improved since the…
WE all know that Hindi movie ‘Lagaan’ was India’s official entry for Oscars and was also nominated in the Best Foreign Language Film, but unfortunately, it didn’t win any title. But well, we are sure that there are many facts about the film that not many of you know. Shah…
TENDULKAR helped England ahead of their World Cup clash against Australia not the man who owns almost all the batting records but the boy who aspires to shine with the ball. Aiming to live up to his illustrious surname, Arjun Tendulkar ran in fast and bowled at the England batsmen…
KRITI SANON believes acting is a tricky profession as one has to "switch on and off" from their real-to-reel emotions every now and then. The actor, who is looking forward to Arjun Patiala, says a performer maybe going through tough times in their life, but when in front of the camera…
ABSCONDING diamond merchant Mehul Choksi's citizenship of Antigua may be revoked by the Caribbean country and he could be extradited to India after he exhausts all legal options, prime minister Gaston Browne was quoted as saying by a media report. Choksi, 60, had taken the nationality of Antigua and Barbuda…
THE parents of a six-year-old migrant girl from India who died of heat stroke in an Arizona desert said they sought asylum in the US because they were "desperate." "We wanted a safer and better life for our daughter and we made the extremely difficult decision to seek asylum here…
HUNDREDS of thousands of doctors across India went on strike on Monday (17) demanding better working conditions, the country's top medical body said, as the outrage over lax security conditions at hospitals escalated. The nationwide protests, affecting hundreds of hospitals, started after an attack at a medical college in West…
THE goal of making India a $5 trillion economy by 2024 is "challenging, but achievable" with the concerted efforts of states, prime minister Narendra Modi said at the fifth meeting of NITI Aayog's governing council in New Delhi on Saturday (15). The NITI Aayog is a policy think tank of…
INDIAN anti-terrorism police questioned six men on Thursday (13), after conducting raids against alleged Islamic State group supporters in the country's south. India has been concerned about Islamist extremists on its soil for some time, and the Sri Lanka bombings in April left authorities alarmed that the country might be…
INDIAN energy giant Adani today (13) cleared the last regulatory hurdle to commence the work on its controversial Carmichael coal mine project in Australia with the Queensland state authorities approving its groundwater management plan. The final and last approval for the Adani Group's long-delayed billion dollars mega coal mine project…
