- Wednesday, April 02, 2025
AUTHORITIES in south India rescued dozens of bonded labourers from a farm on Friday (3) after a tip-off from awareness campaigners that they had been banned from voting in a national election. The campaigners said they were trying to raise awareness of the importance of voting when they realised many…
AUSTRALIA'S Queensland state government has rejected a management plan of Indian energy giant Adani to protect an endangered black-throated bird species, saying the company's proposals do not meet the approval conditions for the proposed billion-dollar mine project. The environment department's decision will delay the controversy-hit Carmichael coal mine project indefinitely,…
A CYCLONE barrelled into eastern India on Friday (3), bringing down trees and power lines and "extensively" damaging the tourist town of Puri, but there were no early reports of casualties with a million people evacuated before it made landfall. Tropical Cyclone Fani, the strongest to hit India in five…
INDIA’S Punjab state chief minister Amarinder Singh Thursday (2) accused prime minister Narendra Modi of seeking votes in the name of martyrs and urged people to oust the "communally divisive" BJP from power and install a Congress government at the Centre. Saying that his blood “boils” when he hears Modi…
CONGRESS president Rahul Gandhi Thursday (2) said his party's government will not work for a handful of top businessmen, calling the prime minister Narendra Modi's “masters”. "We will not run the government for 15 people because they are not our 'malik' (masters),” he told a public meeting at Chomu in…
THE makers of Vivek Oberoi-starrer biopic on prime minister Narendra Modi today (3) announced that the film will be released countrywide on May 24, a day after the results of the Lok Sabha elections are declared. The film, titled 'PM Narendra Modi', was earlier set to release on April 11…
THE Congress has won elections in Delhi more times than it has faced defeat, says former chief minister Sheila Dikshit though she does not want to speculate on the number of seats the party will win in the national capital. She says she will be satisfied only if the party…
THE Congress Thursday (2) came out with a list of six anti-terror surgical strikes carried out during UPA rule, asserting that it never tried to take political advantage from military operations. The Congress released the list at a press conference after Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Arun Jaitley took a…
BHARATIYA JANATA PARTY (BJP) has sought permission from the Chief Electoral Office of Delhi to air two movies- 'Padman' and 'Toilet-Ek Prem Katha' on NaMo TV, officials here said today (2). The Delhi poll body has now written to the Election Commission, seeking clarity whether it can certify movies already…
LEGENDARY leading lady Madhuri Dixit has delighted many millions with her immense body of work and got herself countless super fans around the world, including Nitesh R Shahani from Mumbai, India. Eastern Eye caught up with Nitesh to find out more. What first connected you to Madhuri Dixit? I faintly remember waking…
