- Tuesday, February 25, 2025
At a time when several Indian-origin residents in Australia have not been able to travel home to meet their friends and families in India and have been requesting the country’s federal as well as state governments to ease tough border measures, Queensland premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has made the headlines by…
INDIAN prime minister Narendra Modi on Monday (27) said places where more people have taken the Covid-19 vaccine and have a better healthcare infrastructure will attract more tourists, especially in the wake of the pandemic. In his address post the launch of Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM), Modi said when…
POLITICS in the northern Indian state of Punjab continued to witness drama as Navjot Singh Sidhu, a cricketer-turned-politician who was made the state chief of the ruling Indian National Congress in July, stepped down from the post on Tuesday (28). The sudden development took place just over a week after…
FORMER Pakistan cricket captain Inzamam-ul-Haq on Tuesday (28) underwent an emergency angioplasty at a private hospital in Lahore after complaining of chest-related issues and breathing difficulty. According to Haq’s family sources, the 51-year-old felt uneasy and complained of having breathing difficulty on Monday (27). He was taken to a private…
INDIAN prime minister Narendra Modi presented some unique gifts to US vice president Kamala Harris and Australian prime minister Scott Morrison during his visit to the White House last week and the items have brought the world’s attention to his constituency in India – Varanasi – one of the oldest…
US DEPUTY secretary of state Wendy Sherman will travel to India and Pakistan in October. The twin visits by the US state department’s No.2 will come at a time when the nuclear-powered rivals in South Asia have differed on the way forward in Afghanistan where the Taliban stormed back to…
WITH India’s festival season about to kick off, the country’s decorated Olympians and Paralympians have come together for the first time since their events held in Tokyo between July and September in a video that has been made to support India’s ministry of health and family welfare’s efforts to promote…
INDIAN prime minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday (28) launched 35 crop varieties with special traits that have been developed by the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) to address the twin challenges of climate change and malnutrition. The crop varieties were dedicated to the nation through a video conference which…
HEAVY rain on Monday (27) battered several parts of the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh after cyclonic storm ‘Gulab’ made a landfall between the northern coastal parts of the state and southern Odisha around midnight on Sunday (26). Several parts of Telangana, which lies to the west of Andhra,…
THE Narendra Modi government has thanked the office of the New York district attorney over its “excellent support” in returning more than 150 antiquities to India and appreciated the role it played in promoting India-US people-to-people links and cultural understanding by means of restituting the valuable artefacts. Modi, who went…
