- Saturday, April 05, 2025
A new West Midlands-India Partnership (WMIP) launched on Friday (26) to enhance UK-India relations with a special focus on tourism, trade and investment in the region. The partnership, led by the West Midlands Growth Company, will support the region’s long-term economic growth plans as part of a five-year programme of…
The aviation regulator DGCA said on Friday it is extending the suspension of scheduled international passenger flights in the country till July 15 but added that some international scheduled services on selected routes may be permitted on a case to case basis. Scheduled international passenger flights were suspended in India…
Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) chief S S Deswal on Friday visited the newly created COVID-19 care facility here with over 10,000 beds and reviewed its preparedness, officials said. The large Radha Soami Beas establishment in Chhatarpur area of the national capital, as per the officials, will have two segments --…
BUSINESS leaders have welcomed new figures showing that British Indians are outperforming other minority groups to land top jobs, but have warned more work is needed on equality. Eleven per cent of professionals of Indian heritage were in “manager, director and senior official” roles, the joint highest percentage, along with…
INDIA reported 17,296 Covid-19 cases on Friday (26), the country’s highest single-day tally so far. With this India’s tally jumped to 490,401, and the death toll climbed to 15,301 with 407 new fatalities. India registered over 14,000 cases for the seventh day in a row and witnessed a surge of 299,866…
Sushant Singh Rajput’s final film Dil Bechara, which is an official adaptation of hugely successful Hollywood film The Fault In Our Stars (2014), will premiere on July 24 on Disney+ Hotstar. The movie marks the directorial debut of well-known casting director Mukesh Chhabra and stars Sanjana Sanghi as the female lead. Rajput and…
PAKISTAN’s prime minister Imran Khan faced a growing backlash after he said former Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden had been “martyred”. Khan made the comment in parliament as he was describing the history of Pakistan’s troubled relations with the US since American special forces killed bin Laden in 2011 in…
An Indian judge faced an outpouring of anger on Thursday (25) after he cast doubt on a woman’s rape claim, calling her description of events “unbecoming” and granting her alleged attacker protection from arrest. Krishna S. Dixit, a high court judge in the southern state of Karnataka, said he found…
Striking a conciliatory tone after raising tensions in eastern Ladakh to a fever pitch, China on Thursday said it was ready to work with India to properly deal with the border standoff while noting that "suspicion and friction" was a wrong path that goes against the fundamental aspirations of people…
UNILEVER will drop the word “fair” from its “Fair & Lovely” brand of skin lightening products which are popular in South Asia but have long been criticised for promoting negative stereotypes against people with darker skin. Companies face a mounting backlash on social media in the wake of the Black…
