- Friday, April 04, 2025
India’s coronavirus death toll passed 35,000 on Friday, overtaking that of Italy, as floods affecting millions and killing almost 350 hampered the battle against the pandemic. With 779 new deaths in 24 hours, the health ministry put total fatalities at 35,747, giving India the world’s fifth-highest death toll behind the…
Rajbala spends most of her day looking up at people walking past her roadside makeshift shop without a glance or looking down at the silk and cotton ‘rakhis’ lined up, undisturbed, in a neat arrangement on the pavement. Raksha Bandhan, or Rakhi, one of north India’s biggest festivals, is only…
UK-based advanced cyber security provider and Hinduja Group firm CyQureX-UK and Tech Mahindra have entered into a global strategic partnership to offer cyber security solutions through ‘digital transformation’. With this, both firms aim to become leaders in the emerging ‘Zero Trust’ environment, leveraging CyQureX’s core Software Defined Perimeter technology and…
Police have been ordered onto the streets of an Indian town where Hindu groups will next week begin building a temple on a site contested by Muslims for decades in a dispute that has sparked some of the country’s most bloody communal violence. The Supreme Court of India ruled last…
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan on Wednesday thanked her fans for their prayers following the actor and her family’s coronavirus diagnosis. Aishwarya and her daughter Aaradhya were discharged from Nanavati Hospital on Monday. Aishwarya’s husband Abhishek and father-in-law Amitabh, who were admitted to the hospital on July 11 after testing positive for…
CORONAVIRUS patients from Asian backgrounds are at least 30 years than white British people being hospitalised, an analysis in Oldham has shown. A research team of doctors at the Royal Oldham hospital in the Greater Manchester town that recorded on of highest infection rates in England also noted that 319…
The touchdown of five Rafale jets on Indian soil on Wednesday caps years of intense political dogfight, with the ruling BJP projecting the purchase as a huge boost to national security and the Congress alleging corruption, before a clean chit by the Supreme Court to the deal removed any hurdle…
COVID-19 cases in India crossed the 50,000 mark in a single day for the first time, pushing the virus tally to 15,83,792, while the recoveries went past 10 lakh on Thursday, according to the Union Health Ministry data. The country registered a record increase of 52,123 infections in a span…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Mauritian counterpart Pravind Jugnauth on Thursday jointly inaugurated the new Supreme Court building of Mauritius at Port Louis. Addressing the virtual event, the prime minister said that history has taught us that in the name of development partnerships, nations were forced into dependence partnerships.…
Punjab National Bank International Limited (PNBIL) has logged a big win in a UK High Court in its pursuit of around $22 million in unpaid loans, setting a precedent for other enforcement cases brought by Indian banks against promoters or guarantors in English courts. The case by the UK subsidiary…
