• Saturday, March 29, 2025

AstraZeneca admits Covishield-induced side effect TTS syndrome; what is it?

BRITISH-Swedish multinational pharmaceutical and biotechnology company, AstraZeneca for the first time admitted the possibility of its Covid-19 vaccine leading to a rare but serious side effect, namely the Thrombosis with Thrombocytopenia Syndrome (TTS), revealed a report of The Telegraph. The covid-19 vaccine marketed worldwide under various names including Covishield and…

Piyush Goyal, a top Modi minister, files nomination for first…

PIYUSH GOYAL, India's commerce and industry minister and one of the major faces of the Narendra Modi government, on Tuesday (30) filed nomination for the ongoing general elections from the country's financial capital, Mumbai. He will contest from Mumbai North constituency. It was a special occasion in the long political…

Doctors speak on Indian-origin man who drove Tesla with family…

AN Indian-origin radiologist who drove his Tesla car off a cliff in California, US, with his wife and two kids inside, was allegedly suffering from a major depressive disorder and had a psychotic episode when the accident took place, media reports have said.  The 43-year-old Dharmesh Patel from California's Pasadena…

India lawmaker, accused of sexual offence & allied with Modi’s…

AMID the row over explicit videos allegedly showing him assaulting a number of women sexually, Prajwal Revanna, a parliamentarian from the southern Indian state of Karnataka, was on Tuesday (30) suspended from his party -- Janata Dal (Secular), which is in alliance with prime minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party…

India PM’s fans hold ‘Run for Modi’ in London to…

LONDON on Sunday (28) witnessed a vibrant and enthusiastic crowd of supporters of prime minister Narendra Modi and his party, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), gathering for an event 'Run for Modi' to mobilise support for the PM in his bid to get elected for the third consecutive time in…

UK resident Inderpal Singh Gaba arrested by India’s NIA in…

A MAN, who was arrested by India's National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Thursday (25) over his alleged participation in the attack on the Indian high commission in London in March 2023, was also detained for entering India from Pakistan the same year. A resident of Hounslow in west London who…

Indians among top investors in Sharjah real-estate; Pakistanis also in…

REAL-ESTATE transactions in Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates have shot up 67.1 per cent in the first quarter of 2024 over the same period last year to a value of Dh10 billion, reflecting a growing demand after the emirates allowed non-Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) nationals to buy property, according…

Three women from Gujarat killed in US after speeding SUV…

IN A horrific incident, three women from the western Indian state of Gujarat were killed when the SUV they were travelling in swerved off the road and hurtled over a bridge to crash into trees in the US. The accident took place in Greenville County in South Carolina and officials…

Opposition cries foul as Modi delivers ‘hate speech’ in Rajasthan…

THE Indian opposition has accused prime minister Narendra Modi of making a “divisive” speech in an election rally in the north-western state of Rajasthan on April 21 where he allegedly targeted a religious group as “infiltrators” and claimed that the opposition Indian National Congress would give away all the “hard-earned…

India, South Korea discuss disarmament & non-proliferation

INDIA on Friday (26) engaged in discussions with South Korea on disarmament and non-proliferation in Seoul, its ministry of external affairs (MEA) said. The talks were centered around disarmament and non-proliferation of nuclear, chemical and biological domains.  The Indian side at the talks was led by Muanpuii Saiawi, joint secretary…