- Sunday, February 23, 2025
THE ruling Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) 57 legislators in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand were scheduled to choose a new leader on Saturday (3) to become the 10th chief minister of the 21-year-old state. The hilly state saw dramatic turn of events late on Friday (2) when incumbent chief…
BRITISH retailer Marks & Spencer has come under accusations of laying claim to a popular dish created by Indian restaurant chain Dishoom. M&S posted a photograph of the chilli egg and bacon naan, one of the chain’s best-known dishes, on Instagram this week, sparking an outrage on social media where…
SERGEY KARJAKIN at 12 years seven months was the youngest grandmaster ever, but on Wednesday (30), Abhimanyu Mishra, from Englishtown, New Jersey, the US, broke that record at 12 years four months. Mishra, who was already the youngest ever international master at 10 years nine months, finally achieved his third…
UK PRIME minister Boris Johnson on Friday (2) said he saw no reason why people who received Indian-made AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines should be left out of vaccine passport schemes after the European Union did not initially recognise it. About five million people in Britain are thought to have had the…
AMID relentless complaints from the country’s domestic traders alleging violations of foreign direct investment (FDI) norms by foreign online players, India’s commerce and industry player Piyush Goyal on Friday (2) said his ministry will come out with certain clarifications on the e-commerce sector “very shortly”. Goyal added that the ministry…
BAHUJAN Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati on Friday (2) said the decision of the opponent Samajwadi Party (SP) to contest the assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh in 2022 with the help of small parties showed its “helplessness” as major parties were avoiding it owing to “bitter” experience. Recently, SP chief…
PASSENGERS who are planning to fly from India to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have been cautioned against fake chartered flights after a travel agency said that it will be arranging a ‘special business charter flight’ on July 7. Go First (also known as GoAir), which is India’s low-cost carrier,…
A UNIQUE story of the ‘living dead’ surfaced in India when Lal Bihari ‘Mritak’ (deceased), the man who made the headlines after fighting a long battle to prove he was ‘alive’ after government documents declared him ‘dead’, is in the limelight again. Bihari has now planned to remarry his 56-year-old…
THE escape could not have been sweeter for two brothers in Burhanpur in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. On Wednesday (30), Firoz Mansuri and his brother Sabir from Nepanagar, located around 18 miles from Burhanpur, were heading home at dusk for the former’s son’s birthday party on a…
AS MANY as five million Britons could remain locked out of their European holidays because the vaccine they took against Covid-19 is not recognised by the European Union’s passport scheme. Millions of vaccines administered in the UK are yet to qualify for the EU’s vaccine passport scheme since they have…
