- Tuesday, February 25, 2025
AUTHORITIES in Zambia on Wednesday (29) said they have arrested Milingo Lungu, the liquidator of a major copper company for embezzling $9 million (£6.6 million), marking the latest twist in the southern African nation’s dispute with India’s Vedanta Resources, AFP reported. Konkola Copper Mines, which is co-owned by Vedanta and…
INDIAN prime minister Narendra Modi on Thursday (30) said his government is working towards transforming the country’s health sector and increasing its strength and self-reliance in the sector. Speaking at an event after virtually laying the foundation stone of four medical colleges in four districts of the north-western Indian state…
FIGHTER pilot Air Chief Marshal Vivek Ram Chaudhari on Thursday (30) took over as India’s chief of air staff from Air Chief Marshal RKS Bhadauria. Chaudhari, who was commissioned in the Indian Air Force in December 1982, is the 27th chief of air staff. Bhadauria, who superannuated after 42 years…
THE internal trouble in the Indian National Congress, India’s main opposition party, seems to be worsening with each passing day. Soon after senior leader of the party Kapil Sibal, a member of the Congress’s veterans’ group G-23 questioned the party’s functioning amid the current crisis in the northern state of…
MEENABEN Madhvani, matriarch of the Madhvani family, on Wednesday (29) died in Kakira in Uganda. She was 92 and had been ailing for sometime. Meenaben was the widow of Jayant Madhvani, the eldest son of Mulji Prabhudas Madhvani, an Indian-born Ugandan businessman, entrepreneur, industrialist and philanthropist who founded the Uganda-based…
FORMER student leader of India’s renowned Jawaharlal Nehru University Kanhaiya Kumar on Tuesday (28) joined the Indian National Congress in the presence of former party president Rahul Gandhi. However, the occasion was more dominated by reports that Kumar removed the air-conditioner (AC) that he had installed in the office of…
INDIA will complete 75 years of independence next year and in the run-up to that, Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav is being observed. As part of the celebrations, the Indian embassy in Antananarivo, Madagascar, is observing the age-old Indian philosophy of 'Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam' (the whole earth is a family) in the…
THERE are many psychological benefits of having something to look forward to and as we come towards the final stages of lockdown life that hope is now needed more than ever. It will release positive thoughts in a sea of negativity, make you optimistic about the future and give added…
INDIA captain Mithali Raj on Wednesday (29) confirmed that ace batter Harmanpreet Kaur has been ruled out of the pink-ball Test against Australia starting at the Metricon Stadium in Queensland on Thursday (30) due to injury. This will be the first time that India women will play a Test under…
AT a time when the ruling party of the northern Indian state of Punjab is facing a serious crisis with two of its top leaders quitting in a week’s time, a key development took place in New Delhi where former chief minister of the state Captain Amarinder Singh met the…
