- Sunday, February 23, 2025
INDIA'S Broadcasting Content Complaints Council (BCCC) on Thursday (1) asked non-news television channels to show restraint in depicting content pertaining to crimes against women, children and people belonging to the LGBTQ community. The television watchdog issued a detailed advisory for the portrayal of gender-based violence on programmes and asked the…
FOUR days after India experienced an unprecedented drone-supported terror attack on a military installation in Jammu, its army chief Gen Manoj Mukund Naravane said easy availability of drones has increased the complexity of security challenges but added that the Indian military is working on enhancing its capacities to effectively deal…
INDIAN prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday (1) said when combined with India’s proven tech prowess, its data and demographic dividend create a massive opportunity and expressed confidence that the current decade will be ‘India’s techade’. Speaking at a virtual event to mark six years of Digital India, Modi said…
NINE European countries have decided to allow people who have taken the Covishield vaccine to travel to their territories, sources said on Thursday (1). The nine nations are Austria, Germany, Slovenia, Greece, Iceland, Ireland and Spain besides Switzerland and Estonia. India had already asked the member countries of the European…
THE South Indian state of Kerala is yet to overcome its Covid-related challenges but yet on Tuesday (29), it has allowed ferrying bodies of victims of the virus to their homes to enable the kin to conduct their last rites in a time-bound manner. Under the pandemic protocol, bodies of…
INDIA'S external affairs minister S Jaishankar on Wednesday (30) sought a debate on responsibility and accountability of big tech companies that enjoy huge power and influence as “non-state players”, saying such issues could not be brushed under the carpet on the pretext of “freedom of speech”. The diplomat’s remarks came…
RELIANCE Industries’ share price gained nearly a per cent in the early trade on Wednesday (30), a day after the company unveiled an announcement with Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) for setting up a chemical facility at TA’ZIZ in Ruwais, Abu Dhabi, the United Arab Emirates, Moneycontrol reported. In…
POLICE on Wednesday (30) launched a house-to-house verification drive in residential colonies near the Jammu airport, three days after an Indian Air Force (IAF) base there was targeted using drones. It was a first-of-a-kind Pakistan-backed terror attack using drones that left two personnel suffering minor injuries. It was learned that…
THIS morning (30), we woke up with the sad news that actress Mandira Bedi’s husband and filmmaker Raj Kaushal (49) passed away due to cardiac arrest. He had directed films like Pyaar Mein Kabhi Kabhi (1999), Shaadi Ka Laddoo (2004), and Anthony Kaun Hai (2006). Mandira and Raj had tied…
IT seems there is no respite yet for social media giant Twitter in India. Already having found itself under the scanner of the government of India and the country’s police authorities over allegations like non-compliance with India’s new information technology laws or circulation of a controversial video of assault of…
