- Sunday, February 23, 2025
Indian prime minister Narendra Modi said on Friday his government was a victim of “lies and conspiracy” as it struggled to defuse growing protests by tens of thousands of farmers threatening to encircle New Delhi. With more protesters gathering at entrances to the capital every day, Modi stepped up efforts…
BRITISH prime minister Boris Johnson and European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen are expected to speak in the next 48 hours on Brexit trade talks, a Spectator reporter said. “It is expected that Boris Johnson and Ursula von der Leyen will speak again in the next 48 hours,” James…
THE Trump administration labelled many countries including India as currency manipulators and said that these ‘trading partners’ may be deliberately devaluing their currencies against the dollar. This comes after the Indian central bank stepped up purchases of foreign currency as portfolio flows surged in the second half of the year. The…
US Muslim groups pleaded on Thursday for the Organization of Islamic Cooperation to speak out on China’s mass incarceration of Uighurs, accusing the global body of abetting what some described as genocide. The OIC consists of 57 Muslim-majority nations and frequently takes up cases in which it believes Muslims are…
French authorities this week arrested four people of Pakistan origin suspected of links to the meat cleaver attack in late September by a young Pakistani outside the former offices of the Charlie Hebdo weekly that wounded two people, a judicial source said on Friday. The four were detained on Monday…
Hundreds of masked shoppers defied pandemic fears to visit Ikea’s second Indian store, which opened on Friday, as the Swedish giant tries to lure the country’s burgeoning middle class with minimalist design and a dash of local masala. The company is betting big on the vast but complex market of…
On 9th December 2020, actress Kriti Sanon had revealed on social media that she has been tested positive for Covid-19. The actress had shared a note on Instagram to inform her fans about it. The note read, “I’d like to inform everyone that I have been tested positive for Covid-19. There’s…
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan was last seen in Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra’s production Fanney Khan (2018), and that too in an extended cameo. It has been several years since her diehard fans saw her sizzle in a powerful full-fledged role. Looks like their wish might just come true soon. If fresh reports doing the…
Unilever said it would resume advertising on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter in the United States after pausing in June due to divisiveness and hate speech on the platforms during the US election period. The consumer goods company said on Thursday it plans to end the advertising pause next month and…
Coca-Cola said Thursday it will cut 2,200 jobs as part of a restructuring as it prepares for a better post-pandemic market in 2021 following this year’s sales hit. The downsizing will impact about 2.6 percent of Coca-Cola’s global workforce and will eliminate 1,200 US jobs, a company spokesman said. The…
