- Friday, April 04, 2025
INDIA'S main opposition Congress party on Monday (24) rejected a proposal from its leader, Sonia Gandhi, to step down, after a rare challenge to the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty, which has dominated the party for seven decades. The Italian-born widow of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi had offered to resign as interim…
A LUXURY resort in southern India has turned its swimming pool into a fish farm to stop the business sinking amid the economic crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic. Normally the 150-metre (500-feet) pool at the Aveda Resort in Kerala state is packed with European tourists. Now thousands of pearl spot fish…
BOLLYWOOD megastar Amitabh Bachchan is back at work filming India's version of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? following a bout of Covid-19, while authorities eased coronavirus curbs on movie and TV shoots. A blanket ban on studio activity in March dealt a huge blow to India's cinema and TV industries, hitting…
AIMING to woo the influential Indian-American voters numbering over two million, the Trump campaign has released a video commercial that has short clips from Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's speeches and US President Donald Trump's historic address in Ahmedabad. Modi and Trump addressed a huge crowd in the capital city…
INDIAN authorities have imposed tough anti-coronavirus restrictions on gatherings and the size of Lord Ganesha idols for one of the biggest religious festivals of the year that started on Saturday (22). The 10 days of prayers and family gatherings for Ganesh Chaturthi started under a pandemic cloud with the country…
THE World Health Organization has said it hopes the coronavirus pandemic will be shorter than the 1918 Spanish flu and last less than two years if the world unites and succeeds in finding a vaccine. The WHO has always been cautious about giving estimates on how quickly the pandemic can be dealt with while there…
TO Kuozeu Vizo, the landscape was as spellbinding as a rice field, golden and ripe for harvest, but it was her village burned black. “I still wonder how they even knew which land belonged to whom when they started rebuilding the village,” said Vizo, 98. She and fellow Naga people…
A PAIR of glasses believed to have been used by Mahatma Gandhi has been sold for £260,000, after it was found in an envelope sticking out of a Bristol-based auctioneer’s letterbox. Reports said an American collector bagged the spectacles – initially estimated to fetch about £15,000 – through "a phone…
A 36-YEAR-OLD man, who was extradited from India, has been sentenced to life imprisonment for carrying out a “horrific” series of rapes that culminated in murder. Aman Vyas, 36, of “no fixed address” had been convicted at the Old Bailey last month of the rape and murder of Michelle Samaraweera,…
INDIA's ambassador to the US has said clinching a limited trade deal would be a crucial step towards a comprehensive bilateral trade pact between the two nations. "First step to realise trade partnership is to conclude ongoing trade negotiations," said Taranjit Singh Sandhu during a virtual summit organised by an…
