- Tuesday, February 25, 2025
VETERAN Kashmiri separatist Syed Ali Shah Geelani late on Wednesday (1) passed away at his residence in Srinagar following a prolonged illness. He was 92. Geelani resigned from politics and Hurriyat last year. His cremation was held on Thursday (2) morning. In March 2018, the late leader suffered a minor…
INDIA'S Allahabad High Court on Wednesday (1) said cows are “part and parcel” of the country’s culture and should be declared the national animal. The court’s observation came while it denied bail to Javed, a person who has been charged with offences under the Prevention of Cow Slaughter Act in…
INDIA head coach Ravi Shastri on Wednesday (1) said he would like his team to take inspiration from the victory at Lord’s last month instead of thinking about the humiliating defeat at Leeds ahead of the crucial fourth Test match against England starting at the Oval on Thursday (2). The…
DISTINGUISHED broadcaster Rajni Kaul, who became the first woman to read a news bulletin on BBC in Hindi six decades ago, passed away in Faridabad in the northern Indian state of Haryana on Tuesday (31). She was 92. Rajni was the widow of eminent broadcast journalist Mahendra Kaul who died…
DIGITAL payment solutions provider PayPal on Wednesday (1) said India is the “bedrock” of its development capabilities and it continues to hire people aggressively in the country to further build and drive the teams. The US-based firm, which had announced its exit from the domestic payment services in India five…
IN a move that would give relief to many Indian expats, Bahrain has removed India from a travel red list due to Covid-19 pandemic. While the middle-eastern kingdom has also removed Pakistan and the Dominican Republic from the list, its civil aviation authorities said they have added five more countries…
THE Narendra Modi government has a determined plan to connect Indian researchers with the diaspora, one of its top officials have said recently. Science and technology secretary professor Ashutosh Sharma said during an interaction with several Indian-American presidents of US universities last week, “Given the constraints and cultural differences in…
DIGITAL mapping company MapmyIndia, which powers Apple maps in India, has filed draft papers with domestic market regulator Sebi (Securities and Exchange Board of India) to raise funds through an initial share-sale. The company did not reveal the value of the IPO, but according to a source that spoke to…
INDIA'S month-long presidency of the United Nations Security Council for the month of August has come to end with “substantive” outcomes on important global issues, including a strong resolution on the situation in Afghanistan where the situation has worsened in the wake of the Taliban’s return to power. The resolution,…
INDIA'S Covid tragedy has become a money-making scheme for some local officials who have wrongly declared people to have died from the disease and allegedly pocketed compensation of £2,000. The suspected scam has forced 23 people from Borkhedi village in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh to prove that…
