- Thursday, February 27, 2025
OLYMPIC champion Neeraj Chopra became the first Indian to win a gold medal at the World Athletics Championships when he pipped Pakistan’s Arshad Nadeem in the men’s javelin on Sunday (27) with an 88.17 metre effort in the final. Chopra won Olympic gold in Tokyo but managed only a silver…
FRENCH authorities are to ban the wearing in school of abaya dresses worn by some Muslim women, the education minister said Sunday (27), arguing the garment violated France’s strict secular laws in education. “It will no longer be possible to wear an abaya at school,” education minister Gabriel Attal told…
A 16-year-old British Pakistani student, Mahnoor Cheema has set a record in the UK and internationally after passing a total of 34 subjects at the General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) level. This accomplishment is the result of Mahnoor passing 17 GCSEs in the previous year, coupled with an additional…
The Netherlands returned formal ownership to Sri Lanka of six colonial-era treasures on Monday, including a more than 275-year-old cannon inlaid with gold, silver, bronze and rubies. At a ceremony at the cultural ministry in Colombo, Dutch deputy minister for culture, education and science, Gunay Uslu, signed over the ownership…
London mayor Sadiq Khan has accused government ministers of “weaponising air pollution and climate change” alleging that they are not endorsing the expansion of London’s ultra-low emission zone (Ulez), The Guardian reported. As the Ulez expansion is set to encompass all London boroughs, Khan has expressed his dissatisfaction with the…
Days after becoming the first nation to land a craft near the Moon’s largely unexplored south pole, India’s space agency said on Monday it will launch a satellite to survey the Sun. “The launch of Aditya-L1, the first space-based Indian observatory to study the Sun, is scheduled for September 2,”…
Authorities in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh have taken the step of closing a private school following an incident where a teacher instructed her students to slap a Muslim classmate. Neha Public School in Khubbapur village was subjected to closure by officials who cited its failure to meet the…
FOUR migrants died Monday (28) when their boat capsized off the Greek island of Lesbos, while 18 people were rescued, the coastguard said. A patrol picked up 22 people in the Aegean but four of them were dead, a brief statement said. The survivors were transferred to Mytilene, the main…
A Pakistan court bailed a prominent human rights activist and a former lawmaker on Monday, their lawyer said, after they were detained for protesting against enforced disappearances. Lawyer Imaan Mazari-Hazir and politician Ali Wazir were arrested under anti-terror laws last week after appearing at a protest by the Pashtun Tahafuz…
AIR INDIA has come under scrutiny after an inspection by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) revealed fabricated internal safety audit reports. The DGCA’s inspection team uncovered that the airline had misrepresented routine safety spot checks in its audit reports, prompting an investigation into the matter. The civil aviation…
