A DAY after a terror module was busted, sources in Delhi Police Special Cell said it is believed to be in the first stage of the operation. According to a report by Asian News International, the module, which was coordinated and organised by Pakistan and its Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), was…
FORMER director of Afghanistan women’s cricket Tuba Sangar has urged the international cricket community to support the country’s men’s team by not boycotting their matches if the Taliban ban its women from playing. Sangar, who fled Afghanistan for Canada shortly after the hardline Islamist group returned to power in Kabul…
INDIA, which halted its coronavirus vaccine exports after a devastating second wave wreaked havoc earlier this year, is considering resumption of the same soon, with an emphasis on Africa, Reuters reported citing informed sources. The development took place after India has succeeded in partially immunising a majority of its adults…
INDIA'S minister of state for external affairs and culture Meenakshi Lekhi on Monday (13) met Portugal’s secretary of state for external affairs and cooperation Francisco Andre and signed an agreement on labour mobility facilitating recruitment of Indian citizens to work in the European country. “Delighted to sign an agreement between…
INDIA made a record of sorts in the month of August when it came to its vaccination drive for Covid-19. It administered more than 180 million doses the same month, a figure which is more than all the Group of Seven (G7) countries combined, an official statement said. G7 includes…
INDIAN prime minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday (14) said that the country is no longer known as a defence importer and is fast moving towards a major exporter in the same sector. He said this after visiting the exhibition models of the Aligarh node of the Uttar Pradesh Defence Industrial…
INDIA produced the most amount of social media misinformation on Covid-19 because of its high internet penetration rate, increasing social media consumption and users’ lack of internet literacy, a new study has said. The study, titled ‘Prevalence and Source Analysis of COVID-19 Misinformation in 138 Countries’, was published in Sage’s…
AS first-time member of the Gujarat legislative assembly Bhupendra Patel took over as the western state's chief minister from Vijay Rupani, speculation was rife as to what led to the sudden change of guard. The perceived “mismanagement” of Covid-19 pandemic by the previous Rupani government and the former chief minister's…
THE US will take a look at the role Pakistan has played in the last 20 years, the country's secretary of state Antony Blinken on Monday (13) told Washington's angry lawmakers after they expressed outrage over Islamabad’s “duplicitous” role in Afghanistan post the 9/11 attacks and sought that the US…
A TOP senator in the US has brought legislation to bolster cooperation between America and India on areas if clean energy and climate change, emphasising that he has witnessed first-hand the positive outcomes that come when the two countries work as a team to tackle common challenges. Robert Menendez, a…