- Tuesday, February 25, 2025
THE government of the Australian state of Victoria has been accused of betraying the promise of donating 1,000 ventilators to India to help it in the fight against Covid-19 pandemic. In early May this year, when India was facing a devastating second wave of the coronavirus pandemic, Victoria’s acting premier…
INDIA has sent thousands more paramilitary personnel into the part of Jammu and Kashmir that it controls following a series of targeted killings by suspected rebels in recent weeks, officials on Wednesday (10) said. India has for decades stationed at least 500,000 soldiers in Jammu and Kashmir, which is one…
THE Samajwadi Party (Socialist Party), a major political player in India’s most populous state Uttar Pradesh, on Tuesday (9) launched a perfume with what it calls the “fragrance of brotherhood, love and socialism” that will “end hatred”. The party unveiled the product hoping to woo voters in the 2022 state…
FALGUNI Nayar, who owns about half of beauty start-up Nykaa, has joined the ranks of self-made billionaire women this week after the start-up went public and doubled on its trading debut. Nayar is now asking more women to take control. Nayar runs FSN E-Commerce Ventures Limited, which raised Rs 53.5…
AUTHORITIES at Chennai International Airport in Chennai, the capital of the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu, on Thursday (11) due to severe rain and heavy crosswinds. The arrivals remained suspended between 1.15 pm and 6 pm local time. The departures would, however, continue. ALSO READ: Red alert issued in…
NEW ZEALAND made their first-ever final of the T20 World Cup on Wednesday (10) when they defeated former champions England by five wickets in an absorbing semi-final match at Sheikh Zayed Cricket Stadium in Abu Dhabi. They will meet the winners of the second semi-final between Pakistan and Australia at…
PAKISTAN’S Supreme Court asked prime minister Imran Khan why he was “negotiating” with militants behind the 2014 attack on a Peshawar school, which left 150 dead, most of them students. A total of 147 people, 132 of them children, were killed when Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) militants stormed the Army Public…
WITH Delhi registering nine deaths and more than 2,700 cases of dengue since September, the state’s chief minister, Arvind Kejriwal, on Wednesday (10) said his government is keeping a check on the rise in the number of cases and doing whatever is necessary. Addressing a media conference on the day,…
THE United Nations climate agency has published the first draft of the political decision countries will likely issue at the end of the COP26 summit (26th session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)) which is being held in Glasgow in…
INDIA'S ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and main opposition Indian National Congress have locked horns over the Rafale jet deal. On Tuesday (9), the Congress accused prime minister Narendra Modi of blocking an investigation into the deal to shield himself and challenged the government to set up a parliamentary committee…
