- Tuesday, February 25, 2025
THE Indian selection committee is set to convene on Wednesday (8) to pick the squad for the Twenty20 World Cup starting next month in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Oman. All eyes will be on Washington Sundar, the injured all-rounder who is facing uncertainty over making it to the…
HINDU, Jain and Buddhist community leaders in the Australian territory of Victoria have expressed concerns after its government decided to make public display of Nazi symbols, which include ‘Swastika’, illegal. ‘Swastika’ in Sanskrit means ‘well-being’ and it has been used as an auspicious symbol by Hindus, Buddhists and Jains for…
FARMERS' protests in northern India over the Narendra Modi government’s controversial farm laws were spreading fast to other areas, putting local administrations of a number of states under pressure to tackle them. On Tuesday (7), the district administration of Karnal in the northern state of Haryana invited an 11-member delegation…
SOURAV Ganguly, the chief of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), was elated over India’s victory over England in the fourth Test match at the Oval and said that Virat Kohli’s men proved that they are “far ahead” of the rest in the Test world. Ganguly, a…
THE government of the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu on Monday (6) introduced a Bill in the state legislature which aims to make it mandatory for all shops and establishments to facilitate seating arrangement for their employees. In 2018, Tamil Nadu’s western neighbour Kerala also brought a similar rule…
IN an incident that has caused a massive outrage across India, six minor girls were allegedly paraded naked at a village in Damoh district of central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh as part of a ritual to please the rain god, official sources on Monday (6) said. The National Commission…
RATNAKAR, the newly appointed organisational secretary of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the western Indian state of Gujarat has claimed that Mahatma Gandhi himself never wore the cap which is named after him but Jawaharlal Nehru, India’s first prime minister, did. His remarks found defence in the words…
INDIA'S teaching-learning process needs to be constantly redefined and redesigned to make its education sector world class, prime minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday (7) said. Addressing the inaugural conclave of ‘Shikshak Parv’ (education time) through video-conferencing, he expressed confidence that the initiatives his government launched to transform the education sector…
A JUDGE in India recently scrapped a decision that stopped a man from giving one of his kidneys to his friend because the former had been convicted of a crime. Justice PV Kunhikrishnan of the high court of the South Indian state of Kerala said a ruling by a government…
MULTILATERAL funding agency Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a loan worth Rs 1,095 crore (£108 million) for a sustainable housing project for the urban poor in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu. The loan, which will provide access to inclusive, resilient and sustainable housing for the urban poor…
