- Monday, February 24, 2025
THE governor of the eastern Indian state of West Bengal, Jagdeep Dhankar, will dedicate an enormous Indian national flag measuring 7,500 square feet on the occasion of the country’s 75th Independence Day on Sunday (15). The event will take place at the historical Victoria Memorial Hall in Kolkata, the capital…
INDIAN president Ram Nath Kovind will deliver his Address to the Nation on Saturday (14), on the eve of the country’s 75th Independence Day. The address will begin at 7 pm local time and will be broadcast on the state-owned All India Radio and Doordarshan. On Sunday, prime minister Narendra…
ON February 26, 2019, a dozen Mirage 2000 fighter jets of the IAF crossed the Line of Control (LoC) penetrated to deep inside Pakistan to carryout a pre-dawn strike at the Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) terrorist camps in Balakot in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province and in Muzaffarabad and Chakothi in POK. Operation Bandar,…
SOCIAL media giant Twitter on Saturday (14) restored the handle of former Indian National Congress leader Rahul Gandhi a week after temporarily suspending it saying he flouted its rules by sharing pictures of the family of a nine-year-old girl who was allegedly gangraped and murdered in Delhi. Sources said the…
IN an exclusive interview with India Weekly, India’s High Commissioner to the UK Gaitri Issar Kumar reveals the change in dynamics of British-Indian ties and plans to celebrate the 75th anniversary of India’s independence next year. You came to Britain came in the midst of the pandemic; how did you…
THE Taliban, who have shown a resurgence in Afghanistan as the US-led western forces have started exiting the country after almost 20 years, have appreciated India’s humanitarian and developmental efforts there but at the same time, warned New Delhi against playing a military role in the violence-ravaged nation saying “that…
INDIAN prime minister Narendra Modi on Saturday (14) said August 14 will be remembered as Partition Horrors Remembrance Day in memory of the struggles and sacrifices of people during that period. He said this on the eve of India’s 75th Independence Day. “Partition’s pains can never be forgotten. Millions of…
THE state exchequer in the western Indian state of Gujarat lost Rs 171 crore ($23 million) in the first quarter of 2021-22 due to the evasion of the goods and services tax (GST) by wrongly claiming the input tax credit (ITC), the Times of India newspaper reported on Friday (13).…
SATSA (South African Tourism Services Association), South Africa’s main inbound tourism industry body, is lobbying politicians in the UK to remove the country from its coronavirus travel Red List, claiming that it is not compatible with scientific evidence and ruining relations between countries. Bloomberg on Friday (13) cited Satsa saying…
JOE Hogsett, the mayor of the American city of Indianapolis, recently announced August 7, 2021, as the Asian Day and conferred the Young-Hee Yedinak Leadership Award to six youths. The occasion saw individuals and groups from various countries presenting performances and more than 1,200 people attended the event. ALSO READ:…
