- Friday, February 28, 2025
RUSSIA’S share of arms supply to India fell from 69 per cent in 2012-17 to 46 per cent in 2017-21, according to a report released on Monday (14) by the Stockholm-based defence think-tank SIPRI. Russia started a war against Ukraine on February 24, which led the US and other western…
A public historian in England is trying to track down relatives of soldiers of the British Indian Army held as Prisoners of War (PoW) in Germany, Italy and France during the Second World War. Dr Ghee Bowman in South West England and author of the book The Indian Contingent: The Forgotten Muslim Soldiers of Dunkirk became…
BRITAIN and the US have committed to coordinating the implementation of their Indo-Pacific strategies, with a focus on enhancing ties with India, Downing Street has said. At “high-level consultations” on the Indo-Pacific held in London last week, officials from both governments resolved to broaden and deepen their alignment and cooperation…
ELON MUSK, the world’s richest man, on Monday (14) challenged Russian president Vladimir Putin to a fight, with nothing less than the fate of Ukraine, scene of Moscow’s brutal invasion, at stake. The eccentric billionaire and founder of aerospace company SpaceX took to Twitter, where his messages are notoriously erratic,…
PROMOTER Ben Shalom has said that a re-match between Amir Khan and Kell Brook shouldn’t happen as it ‘doesn’t make any sense’. He added that Amir Khan is expected to continue his career but Kell Brook could enter retirement. “I think he’s [Khan] thinking about it [rematch clause], he’s still got another…
The Ukraine war has seen a surge in pro-refugee public sentiment. British Future’s six-monthly tracker of migration attitudes, conducted by Ipsos, offers conclusive evidence that this is underpinned by a long-term softening of attitudes to immigration. Most striking of all is the shift in people’s views on overall numbers. In 2016,…
US president Joe Biden has announced his intent to nominate Indian-origin political activist Shefali Razdan Duggal as his envoy to the Netherlands, according to the White House. Duggal, 50, is an Indian immigrant to the US from Jammu and Kashmir. She has been raised in Cincinnati, Chicago, New York and Boston.…
FIVE Indian students were killed in a road accident in Canada after the passenger van they were travelling in collided with a tractor-trailer on the Ontario highway on Saturday (12), Indian High Commissioner to Canada Ajay Bisaria said on Monday (14). Taking to Twitter, the Indian envoy expressed his condolences to the…
AN INDIAN court upheld on Tuesday (15) a ban on wearing the hijab in classrooms in the southern state of Karnataka, a ruling that could set a precedent for the rest of the country which has a big Muslim minority. The ban last month by the state sparked protests by…
Multiple award-winning actor Kamal Haasan’s much-awaited film Vikram has locked an official date for its theatrical release. The Tamil-language action drama, which was earlier supposed to release in March, will now enter cinemas on June 3. Haasan, who also produces the film under his production house, Raaj Kamal Films International, announced the release…
