- Sunday, February 23, 2025
The fields are alive with the sound of music, not wedding ditties or soulful melodies but songs of resistance born in the farmers' protest against the new agri laws and echoing all the way from Punjab to Delhi. As thousands of farmers, mostly from Punjab and Haryana, braved water cannons…
Reversing the decision of the outgoing Trump administration, a federal court has ordered full reinstatement of an Obama-era programme that protects undocumented immigrants brought to the US as minors from deportation, a ruling that will help a large number of Indian migrants. The Trump administration tried ending the Deferred Action…
US President-elect Joe Biden has said that his administration would be the most diverse than it has ever been both in the Cabinet and inside the White House. Biden, 78, is due to take over as the 46th US President on January 20. African-American groups have been asking Biden, a…
Actor Akshay Kumar on Saturday said he was overwhelmed with joy after filmmaker Christopher Nolan penned a note for veteran star Dimple Kapadia, praising her exceptional performance in his directorial "Tenet". The espionage-thriller, which released theatrically in the country on Friday, marks the Hollywood debut of Kapadia. In the note,…
Ikea said on Friday (4) it will open its second Indian store on December 18, seeking to woo the nation’s growing middle class with Swedish functionality and a dash of local masala. The furniture giant opened its first Indian outlet two years ago in the southern city of Hyderabad. Its…
India on Friday (4) summoned Canada’s ambassador and warned of serious damage to diplomatic ties after prime minister Justin Trudeau commented on growing protests by farmers, authorities said. Tens of thousands of Indian farmers have been trying for more than a week to encircle the capital New Delhi in protest…
Twitter Inc has expanded its policy barring hateful speech to include “language that dehumanises people on the basis of race, ethnicity and national origin,” it said in a statement. The company banned speech that dehumanises others based on religion or caste last year and updated the rule in March to…
A 15-year-old Indian-American has been named as Time magazine’s first-ever ‘kid of the year’. Gitanjali Rao, from Denver, Colorado, the US has been recognised for her technological inventions including a device that can identify lead in drinking water, and an app and Chrome extension that uses artificial intelligence to detect cyberbullying.…
US president-elect Joe Biden has named Indian-American Dr Vivek Murthy as the next surgeon general, reports said. UK-born Dr Murthy held that post during the Obama administration, but had to leave abruptly during the Trump administration. Dr Murthy,43, is one of the three co-chairs of the Biden’s Covid-19 advisory board.…
INDIAN village teacher Ranjitsinh Disale has won this year’s Global Teacher Prize worth $1 million, for his work helping girls at a village school in western India. Disale immediately announced he would share the prize money with the nine other finalists. He was honoured for having ‘transformed the life chances’…
