- Sunday, February 23, 2025
Shubham Ghosh THE South Indian state of Kerala has been praised in its battle with the Covid-19 pandemic. The country’s only Left-ruled state has now focused to shield its key tourism sector by providing vaccines to everyone who is related to that sector. Kerala’s tourism industry has suffered massive losses…
THE election in India’s most important political state Uttar Pradesh is less than a year away and the Congress, which was once a powerhouse there, has been delivered a body blow. Former central minister Jitin Prasada, one of the grand-old party’s few remaining prominent faces in the state, left to…
Shubham Ghosh A bigamist woman from Guildford, Surrey, who had a child with her lover while still married to her first husband of 22 years has been spared by a court in London. Brinda Kantamaneni, 43, hid her relationship as well as pregnancy with Matthew Hall from her first husband…
Shubham Ghosh INDIAN-AMERICANS, who form the second-largest immigrant groups in the United States, regularly face discrimination and polarisation, according to a survey which was released on Wednesday (9). The report, titled ‘Social Realities of Indian Americans: Results from the 2020 Indian American Attitudes Survey’, draws on the Indian-American Attitudes Survey…
THE Indian government is up against a herculean task of controlling the deadly spread of Covid-19 pandemic and is conducting a mammoth vaccination drive to protect lives. But amid the inoculation drive, it has been revealed that a serious gender disparity exists in the country’s immunisation mission, besides the fact…
Shubham Ghosh THE UK government has reached out to women to know their experiences of the health and care system via a call for evidence which aims at bettering healthcare for women across England. The announcement was made to coincide with the International Women’s Day to commemorate the occasion and…
Shubham Ghosh THE Govind Ballabh Pant Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education and Research (GIPMER) recently came under heavy criticism over a circular asking its nursing staff members not to speak in Malayalam on duty but in Hindi and English. The order led to a massive controversy with top politicians,…
Shubham Ghosh ANUP Chandra Pandey, a former Uttar Pradesh-cadre Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer was on Tuesday (8) appointed as an election commissioner in India. His appointment will restore the full strength of the Election Commission of India (ECI) to three ahead of some crucial state elections in Uttar Pradesh,…
India and Pakistan are not just fierce enemies in matters of Kashmir, Indus River water or cricket. There is another aspect over which neither is ready to give up and that is the famous basmati rice. The long-grain rice is prized by both countries as far as their culinary tastes…
A court in South Africa on Monday, June 7, found Mahatma Gandhi’s great-granddaughter Ashish Lata Ramgobin guilty in connection with a six-million rand fraud and forgery case and sent her to seven years in prison. The 56-year-old woman was accused of defrauding businessman SR Maharaj after the latter gave her…
