- Monday, February 24, 2025
INDIA has planned to put into use facial recognition technology on its train services to get hold of fare dodgers and criminals by helping police to scan through images of 22 million daily commuters. The Indian Railways has installed CCTV at 800 of the country’s 7,349 railway stations while the…
RENOVATION of Jallianwala Bagh complex in the northern Indian state of Punjab has sparked an outrage among Indians as the beautification of the site, which the country remembers with horror, has allegedly erased the signs of history. On April 13, 1919, the garden site located in the city of Amritsar…
INDIA'S Chief Justice NV Ramana on Tuesday (31) morning administered nine new judges of the top court their oaths of office, setting a record. This is the first time in the history of the Indian Supreme Court that as many as nine judges have been sworn in at one time.…
THE United States has announced the end of its 20-year-old war in Afghanistan as its final military flight flew out of the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul shortly before the arrival of the August 31 deadline. The Taliban, who came back to retake control of the country on August…
FLOOD waters rose on Monday (30) across north-eastern India, where hundreds of thousands of people are stranded on the roofs of their homes or have fled to higher ground as more torrential rain fell. Incessant downpours for more than a week forced the Brahmaputra and other major rivers to burst…
AIR India has asked a court in New York to quash a petition by Britain’s Cairn Energy for seizure of its assets to enforce $1.2 billion arbitral awards against the Narendra Modi government, saying the litigation was premature since an appeal against the arbitration was still pending. The airline’s petition,…
AFGHANISTAN has turned into a hotbed of terrorism after the US-led western forces have started their final leg of evacuation from its soil after an occupation that lasted almost 20 years. The international community has expressed serious concerns over the deteriorating security situation in the war-ravaged nation as the foreign…
INDIA'S telecom giant Bharti Airtel on Sunday (29) said it plans to raise Rs 210 billion ($2.86 billion) by selling shares to existing shareholders ahead of the 5G network’s rollout. In a notice to the stock exchange, the telco said, “The board of directors... comprehensively reviewed the industry scenario, business…
TWO-TIME gold-winning javelin throw veteran Devendra Jhajharia clinched a stupendous third Paralympic medal, a silver this time, while discus thrower Yogesh Kathuniya also finished second as India surpassed its best ever medal tally at the Games on Monday (30). Sundar Singh Gurjar also chipped in with a bronze, finishing behind…
INDIA'S rising output of Covid-19 vaccines and the inoculation of more than half its adult population with at least one dose are raising hopes the country will return as an exporter within months, ramping up from early next year. After donating or selling 66 million doses to nearly 100 countries,…
