- Thursday, April 03, 2025
INDIA will not invite Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan to Thursday's (30) swearing-in ceremony of Narendra Modi, who starts his second term as India's prime minister, two sources in the foreign ministry said, suggesting any early warming in ties between the neighbours is unlikely. An Indian government statement on Monday…
IT'S a long way from Berlin to India, where Friederike Irina Bruening devotes her life to sick and abandoned cows. Now, after intervention from the Indian government, she has been allowed to stay. "Currently we have around 1,800 cows," Bruening said outside the holy city of Mathura in northern India…
THE 17th Lok Sabha's (lower house of the Indian Parliament) first session is likely to start from June 6 and go on till June 15, sources have said. The dates of the first Parliament session are expected to be finalised during the first meeting of the new Cabinet on May 31,…
The European Union explained in five figures: Group Of 28 Nations It was born out of the European Economic Community formed in 1958 by six nations seeking closer economic integration: Belgium, France, Italy, Luxembourg, The Netherlands and West Germany. In 1993 the six joined with Britain, Denmark, Greece, Ireland, Portugal,…
RANVEER SINGH is returning to Yash Raj Films for "Jayeshbhai Jordaar", a humorous entertainer set in Gujarat, to be directed by debutant Divyaang Thakkar. This will be Ranveer's next release after cricket drama "83". Ranveer, who is on a career high after the back-to-back success of "Padmaavat" and "Gully Boy",…
INDIA'S ruling coalition has promised to rev up growth, double farmers' income and boost infrastructure spending in the next five years after exit polls showed it would retain power when general election votes are counted on Thursday (23). Exit polls have predicted an outright majority for prime minister Narendra Modi's…
INDIA'S main opposition parties Tuesday (21) alleged voting fraud in the country's general election, days after exit polls predicted a comfortable win for prime minister Narendra Modi's ruling party. Members of as many as 22 parties called on the poll watchdog and demanded that electronic machines used to record votes…
The premier of Australia's Queensland state on Wednesday (22) asked India's energy giant Adani to sit down with the environment regulator to work out a "definitive time-frame" to obtain approvals for its controversial coal mine project in the state. It comes days after Labor suffered a poor voter turnout across…
A DAY before the counting of the votes polled in the Lok Sabha (lower house of the Indian parliament) election, the Congress on Wednesday (22) termed as "constitutional travesty" the EC's rejection of Election Commissioner Ashok Lavasa's demand that dissent notes should be recorded and alleged that the poll watchdog…
COUNTING of votes for the Lok Sabha (lower house of the Indian parliament)elections, in which over 8,000 candidates were in the fray for 542 seats, will begin at 8.00 am IST on Thursday (23) and results are expected only by late evening due to tallying of voter-verified paper audit trail…
