- Thursday, April 03, 2025
FIFTEEN diplomatic missions and the NATO representative in Kabul joined hands on Monday (19) to urge the Taliban to halt military offensives across Afghanistan, just hours after a peace meeting in Doha failed to agree on a ceasefire. A delegation of senior Afghan leaders met the Taliban's political leadership in…
INDIA'S official coronavirus death toll is around 415,000 but the actual number is up to 10 times more, which makes it the country’s worst humanitarian disaster since independence in 1947, an American research group said on Tuesday (20), AFP reported. The US officially leads the death toll with more than…
INDIAN actress and Celebrity Big Brother winner Shilpa Shetty’s husband Raj Kundra has been arrested in India in a case related to the alleged creation and distribution of pornographic films. An official said on Monday (19) that Kundra is the "key conspirator" of the case. He was taken into custody…
THE Supreme Court of India on Monday (19) ordered the release of Erendro Leichombam, an activist from the northeastern state of Manipur, after he was arrested on charges of sedition a few months ago for a Facebook post that said cow dung did not cure Covid-19 disease. The 40-year-old made…
THE Asian Development Bank (ADB) on Tuesday (20) downgraded India’s economic growth forecast for the current financial year to 10 per cent from 11 per cent projected in April on account of the negative impact of the coronavirus pandemic. The country’s gross domestic product (GDP) recovered to 1.6 per cent…
THE Indian National Congress, India’s main opposition party, on Monday (19) went on an all-out attack against the Narendra Modi government over the Pegasus snooping allegations. It accused the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of treason and compromising national security after reports came out saying Israeli software Pegasus was used…
AN India-origin fraudster posing as a car salesman has been handed a jail term of nine years by a UK court for defrauding over 200 unsuspecting car buyers out of more than £1 million. Last Friday (16), 30-year-old Ravinder Singh Randhawa was imprisoned for 22 offences of fraud and one…
BEFORE going out to bat in his debut ODI against Sri Lanka, young Ishan Kishan had announced in the dressing room that he would hit the first ball for a six, irrespective of the bowler and where the ball would be pitched. And he did what he had promised, by…
TYPHOO TEA is the latest British business to be bought by a private equity firm. Reports suggest a London-based Zetland Capital, led by dealmaker Ahmed Hamdani, has secretly acquired a majority of shares in Typhoo Tea. They will be taking control of the tea company from the Indian conglomerate Apeejay…
SOUTH AFRICA’S former president Jacob Zuma’s long-running graft trial resumed on Monday (19). Zuma testified from jail as the proceeding was conducted online to avoid more of the deadly unrest. Unrest erupted in KwaZulu-Natal a day later Zuma started his 15-month jail term on July 8. Thereafter, it covered the…
