- Monday, February 24, 2025
NATURAL disasters in India’s Himalayan zone continued unabated on Wednesday (11) when 11 people were killed while 60 more were feared buried after a landslide took place on a road in Kinnaur district of the hill state of Himachal Pradesh. Many vehicles were trapped under the debris following the mayhem.…
A DELHI court on Wednesday (11) discharged Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal and deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia along with nine others in a case related to alleged assault of former chief secretary of the state, Anshu Prakash. The special court, presided over by additional chief metropolitan magistrate Sachin Gupta,…
MORE than 240 children tested positive for Covid-19 in just five days in Bangalore, the capital of the South Indian state of Karnataka and the country’s information technology hub, raising fears that the third wave, which is predicted to affect children, has already started. The state reported 1,338 cases and…
THE euphoria over athlete Neeraj Chopra’s massive show at the just-concluded Tokyo Olympics refuses to get over. As the country continues to celebrate the 23-year-old army subedar’s success in winning a gold in javelin throw at the mega event, one petrol-pump owner in the western Indian state of Gujarat has…
INDIAN cricket team’s support staff could be set for a transition as head coach Ravi Shastri, bowling coach Bharat Arun, fielding coach R Sridhar and batting coach Vikram Rathour will move on after the T20 World Cup to be held in the United Arab Emirates in October-November, reports said in…
INDIA and the Association of South East Asian Nations (Asean) should join hands to explore ways to enhance the digital connectivity further economic cooperation between the two regions, Singapore’s deputy prime minister and coordinating minister for economic policies Heng Swee Keat on Wednesday (11) said. He also said that the…
PAKISTAN’S police took an eight-year-old boy into protective custody after his release from jail earlier this month triggered a mob fury in the country’s Punjab province. The Hindu boy who had been arrested last month for allegedly urinating in a seminary became the youngest person in the deeply conservative country…
SRI Lanka's government rejected on Tuesday (10) mounting calls for an immediate lockdown to contain a surge in Covid-19 cases and deaths that are severely stretching hospitals and crematoriums. Government spokesman and media minister Keheliya Rambukwella said the country had not reached a critical stage even as the island nation…
CANADA has extended again its ban imposed on passenger flights arriving directly from India till September 21 owing to risks posed by the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. The country’s federal transport ministry said this on Tuesday (10). In April, the North American country banned all direct flights to and from India…
A SPECIAL ceremony was organised at the BAPS Hindu Mandir site in Abu Dhabi, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), on the first day of the holy month of Shravan. The gathering was small considering the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. The ceremony started with Pujya Ishwarcharandas Swami symbolically sanctifying the first of…
