- Sunday, April 06, 2025
THE Met Police has been accused of racial profiling as public outrage grew over a video that showed policewoman handcuffing a black off-duty ambulance in Lewisham. The now viral video, which was recorded on May 21, showed the officer questioning and detaining the man even as he agreed to a…
THE death toll due to Covid-19 rose to 5,394 and the number of cases climbed to 1,90,535 in India on Monday (1). The country reported record 230 deaths and 8,392 cases in the past 24 hours, the health ministry said. India is now seventh among the nations worst hit by…
India captain Virat Kohli believes he landed the job largely because his predecessor Mahendra Singh Dhoni was impressed with his reading of situations in matches. Kohli, 31, replaced Dhoni as test captain in 2014-15 and took over the limited-overs reins in early 2017, becoming India’s all-format leader as well the…
INDIA has ordered its internet service providers (ISPs) to block file-sharing website WeTransfer at a time when hundreds of millions of people are working from home because of a nationwide lockdown to stop the novel coronavirus. The order, dated May 18, from India’s Department of Telecommunications (DoT), does not specify…
A PROMINENT Indian-American aerospace and defence expert has been appointed as the chief of one of the world’s leading privately held nuclear and defence companies, General Atomics Global Corporation, based in California. Vivek Lall, 50, who played key roles in some major Indo-US defence deals between India and the US,…
IN a setback to Walmart-owned Flipkart, the Indian government has rejected the firm’s proposal to enter the huge food retail business in the country. Walmart recently said that its India business is one of the worst impacted by the global Covid-19 pandemic. India’s commerce and industry ministry’s wing, the department…
India registered its highest single-day spike of COVID-19 cases on Sunday with 8,380 new infections reported in the last 24 hours, taking the country's tally to 1,82,143, while the death toll rose to 5,164, according to the Union Health Ministry. The number of active COVID-19 cases stood to 89,995, while…
India said Saturday (30) it would begin a major relaxation of the world’s biggest coronavirus lockdown from early June, even as the country saw another record rise in confirmed infections. Efforts to contain the disease saw the shutdown of virtually all economic activity in late March, putting hundreds of millions…
A group of 85 distressed Indians in the US have launched a SOS campaign to travel back home, urging the Indian government to allow their minor children having American citizenship with valid Indian visas to accompany them to India. Travel to India by a non-Indian citizen, except for certain categories…
As India’s health system grapples with the coronavirus, doctors are increasingly going online to consult with patients suffering less critical or chronic diseases, while the south Asian economy prepares to emerge from a nationwide lockdown. To head off a rush at clinics and an accompanying risk of infection, many doctors…
