- Monday, March 31, 2025
When Sneha Kale filed her nomination as a candidate for India's general election this week, she was with a lone supporter - a stark contrast to the cheering crowds and camera crews that usually accompany politicians in the world's biggest democracy. The transgender 27-year-old knows she is outgunned in the…
The Indian government may have to make a series of major changes at the top of the nation's civil service if prime minister Narendra Modi is re-elected to a second term in May, according to multiple sources in the administration. At least eight senior bureaucrats in the prime minister's office…
EARLY this year, a dozen of Bollywood’s biggest names took a private jet from India’s film capital of Mumbai to New Delhi for a private audience with prime minister Narendra Modi. Subsequently, actor Ranveer Singh, who has nearly 22 million followers on Instagram, posted a smiling picture of himself hugging…
CONGRESS president Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday (10) filed his nomination for the Lok Sabha elections from Amethi in Uttar Pradesh. He was accompanied by mother Sonia Gandhi, sister Priyanka and brother-in-law Robert Vadra. The three-term MP will take on Union minister and BJP candidate Smriti Irani. Rahul Gandhi reached the…
NEARLY 2,000 Zambian villagers have the right to sue mining company Vedanta in the English courts, London's Supreme Court said today (10), raising the prospect other companies could face legal action in England related to their activities abroad. India-listed Vedanta, which delisted from London last year but maintains a legal…
An Indian married couple accused of spying on Germany's Sikh community and Kashmir movement have been charged with espionage, German prosecutors announced on Tuesday (9). They named the suspects only as 50-year-old Manmohan S and his wife Kanwal Jit K, 51, in keeping with German privacy rules for defendants. "Manmohan…
India’s Congress party leader and United Progressive Alliance (UPA) chairperson Sonia Gandhi will file her nomination for the Rae Bareli seat of Uttar Pradesh state on Thursday (11). Sonia Gandhi, who has been representing the seat since 2004, will contest against Dinesh Pratap Singh, who had recently joined the Bharatiya…
A major Australian coal mine project near the Great Barrier Reef was controversially approved by the federal government today (9), days before national elections are expected to be called. The controversial Queensland project backed by India’s Adani would significantly boost coal production, but must now get approval from state and…
Unknown gunmen burst into a hospital in India's northern state of Jammu and Kashmir and killed a regional leader of a Hindu group, the police said on Tuesday (9), days before general elections at which security is a major concern. Authorities imposed an indefinite curfew in the town of Kishtwar,…
India's top court today (9) dismissed an appeal to delay the release of a Bollywood biopic about prime minister Narendra Modi that the opposition says is propaganda, until after India's mega-election. The Supreme Court threw out the petition from the opposition Congress party, saying the biopic was not even certified…
