- Wednesday, April 09, 2025
INDIA’S home ministry has refused to share details on its notice to Congress president Rahul Gandhi following a complaint questioning his Indian citizenship, citing provisions of the RTI Act barring disclosure of information that will, among other things, impede the investigation. In April, the home ministry served a notice to…
THE deadly brain-damaging Nipah virus has resurfaced in the southern Indian state of Kerala a year after it killed 17 people, state officials said today (4). A 23-year-old student tested positive for the virus, which is transmitted to humans through direct contact with infected bats, pigs or other people. Kerala…
THE failure of India’s Jet Airways should be a "wake up call" for the aviation industry and at least part of the blame should be at the doorstep of the policymakers as the cost structure is high, SpiceJet chief Ajay Singh has said. Low-cost carrier SpiceJet is expanding its operations…
AN Indian air force aircraft with 13 people on board went missing on Monday (3) in remote northeastern mountains bordering China, government officials said. The AN-32 aircraft, which is typically used for transport, took off from Assam state's Jorhat town for Menchuka in Arunachal Pradesh state but lost contact with…
FIVE bodies were spotted high on a mountain in the Indian Himalayas on Monday (3) during an aerial search for eight climbers feared swept away in an avalanche last week, a government official said. The climbers - four from Britain, two from the US, and one each from Australia and…
INDIA warned of severe heat in northern and central areas on Monday (3), following similar extreme weather on Sunday (2). Of the 15 hottest places in the world in the past 24 hours, eight were in India with the others in neighbouring Pakistan, according to weather monitoring website El Dorado.…
INDIA’S Congress party social media in-charge Divya Spandana has deleted her Twitter handle, along with the tweet history, triggering speculation over her future plans. Twitter was abuzz with speculation over her political future as none of her controversial tweets were available on the microblogging website. While her official Twitter handle…
AMID a continuing crackdown on Swiss bank account holders with suspected illicit money, Switzerland has stepped up its process to share details of such individuals with Potluri Rajamohan Rao being the latest Indian national to get a notice in this regard. At least 14 Indians, with accounts in Switzerland-based banks,…
SOUTH AFRICA have no margin for error after second World Cup loss and should take advantage of India's 'first game nerves' to bring their World Cup campaign back on track, said legendary all-rounder Jacques Kallis. South Africa, who were thrashed by England in the opening match, suffered their second successive…
INDIA'S economic growth suffered a third straight quarterly fall in the first three months of 2019 to 5.8 per cent, according to government figures, throwing up an immediate challenge to prime minister Narendra Modi's new administration. GDP growth for the world's sixth biggest economy was down from 6.6 per cent…
