- Monday, February 24, 2025
INDIA'S ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has unveiled two lists of candidates contesting this year's general elections with 267 names and already, it has dropped almost 21 per cent of its sitting parliamentarians from their respective constituencies. For observers, it is a well-calculated move to beat anti-incumbency by a party…
DAYS after India's Narendra Modi government notified about the implementation of the contentious Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and a number of opposition-governed states of the country protested against it accusing Modi's ruling Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of indulging in narrow vote-bank politics, home minister Amit Shah asserted that…
THE United States and the United Nations have expressed concerns over the religion-based citizenship law that India's Narendra Modi government implemented earlier this week, with the world body calling it "fundamentally discriminating in nature". Rights activists criticised the contentious Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) which was passed in 2019 and aims…
HERE are news in brief on Indian economy and business for Wednesday, March 13, 2024: Indian car manufacturer Tata Motors has inked a deal to set up a manufacturing plant in the southern state of Tamil Nadu for Rs 90 billion (£849 million), the state's industries minister Dr T R…
LESS than two weeks after it unveiled its first list of candidates for the upcoming general elections, India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of prime minister Narendra Modi released its second list on Wednesday (13) and it featured 72 names. The list comes two days after the BJP's Central Election…
AMIT PATEL, an Indian-origin former financial manager of Jacksonville Jaguars, has been sentenced to six-and-half years in jail for embezzling more than $22 million (over £17 million) from the assets of the American football team and engaging in illegal monetary transactions, court papers showed. Henry L Adams, a US district…
GOOGLE has implemented restrictions on its Gemini AI chatbot, preventing it from addressing election-related inquiries in countries where voting is underway this year, such as India, US, UK and South Africa. The move aims to prevent users from accessing information about candidates, political parties, and other political aspects. “Out of…
PREPARATIONS for the 2024 general elections in India turned ugly in the southern state of Telangana on Tuesday (12) when two opponent parties -- including prime minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) fought over a former lawmaker who had announced his intention to join…
SOCIAL media users in India were on Tuesday (12) unpleasantly surprised to see 'Whats Wrong With India' trending on X with several millions of posts with the same tag. The trend became strong as some users posted about incidents that have happened in the last few days with the hashtag…
AT a time when India and Canada have found themselves involved in a diplomatic face-off over the murder of Sikh separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar on Canadian soil last year, one of the latter's key allies has questioned the lack of evidence of the Indian government's involvement in the case. In…
