- Friday, February 21, 2025
Nizar Kochery has been fighting for migrant workers’ rights in the courts for decades, but he has never felt so overwhelmed. As the coronavirus pandemic forced tens of thousands of South Asian migrants to leave the Gulf countries where they worked, the Doha-based lawyer was flooded with calls about unpaid…
Even if so for a brief while, cricket was meant to take a back seat for MS Dhioni, an honorary lieutenant colonel in India's Territorial Army, who holds dear anything that is related to the military. (File photo: SAJJAD HUSSAIN/AFP via Getty Images) FORMER India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni on…
FILE PHOTO: Mukesh Ambani, chairman and managing director of Reliance Industries, gestures as he answers a question during a media interaction in New Delhi, India, June 15, 2017. REUTERS/Adnan Abid/File Photo INDIAN conglomerate Reliance denied a report Thursday(10) that it was planning to sell a $20-billion stake in its retail…
Ankhi Das, Facebook's Public Policy Director for India, South & Central Asia, is seen on her Facebook page in this illustration picture taken on August 19, 2020. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi/Illustration CIVIL RIGHTS groups in India have said that Facebook has failed to address dangerous content in the country and demanded that…
The Indian Air Force tweeted on September 10, 2020, this pic with the caption: "IAF will formally induct the Rafale aircraft in the 17 Squadron 'Golden Arrows' today at Air Force Station, Ambala. New bird in the arsenal of IAF." FIVE Rafale fighter jets were formally inducted into the Indian…
US private equity firm Silver Lake Partners has invested $1 billion for 1.75 per cent stake in the retail arm of India’s Reliance Industries, valuing the firm at $57 billion. This marks the second billion-dollar investment by Silver Lake in a Reliance Industries subsidiary after the $1.35 billion investment in…
CRISTIANO RONALDO rattled home a superb first-half free kick to become only the second male player to score 100 international goals as Portugal outclassed 10-man Sweden 2-0 in their Nations League A Group 3 game on Tuesday(8). Portugal’s captain scored with a dipping set-piece effort just before halftime to join…
INDIA’s biggest syringe manufacturer is ramping up production to churn out a billion units, anticipating a surge in demand as the global race to find a coronavirus vaccine heats up. While the focus on tackling the pandemic has mostly been on the development of vaccines, experts say medical essentials to…
FUGITIVE diamantaire Nirav Modi’s legal team told a UK court on Tuesday (8) that he was unlikely to get a fair trial in India due to the politicisation of his case, and that he faced a “high risk of suicide” in Indian prisons. Modi, 49, has been fighting extradition on…
Two tribal sisters were allegedly gang-raped in West Bengal’s Jalpaiguri district, following which one of them died by suicide while the other girl is fighting for life at a hospital, police said on Tuesday (8). The two sisters, aged 16 and 14, went out with some local youths on September…
