- Tuesday, February 25, 2025
JALLIKATTU, India's age-old but controversial bull-taming sport made the headlines on Wednesday (17) for the wrong reason as two spectators of the event, including a minor boy, were gored to death by raging bulls. The incident happened in Sivaganga district of Tamil Nadu, India's southernmost state where Jallikattu is a…
HERE are news in brief on Indian economy and business for Tuesday, January 16, 2024: Indian minister of state for information technology (IT) Rajeev Chandrasekhar has announced the forthcoming notification of new information technology rules, addressing the surge in deepfake incidents, including former cricketer Sachin Tendulkar falling victim to the…
INDIAN prime minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday (16) emphasised his Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) significant focus on the opposition-dominated Kerala in the upcoming general elections by conducting a massive roadshow in the southern state's port city of Kochi, marking the second such event in a part of India where the…
GITA Gopinath, the Indian-born first deputy managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), has said that while the South Asian economy was good, it still required consistent reforms to continue its run as the world's fastest-growing economy. The 52-year-old economist told an Indian news outlet in an exclusive interview…
SUMIT Nagal, India's top-ranked tennis player in singles, created history on Tuesday (16) when he became his country's first player to beat a seeded opponent in the Australian Open since 1989. The 137th ranked Indian defeated Kazakhstan's Alexander Bublik, ranked 110 places before him, 6-4, 6-2, 7-6 to advance to…
INDIA has not allowed to undermine or dilute its commitment to sustainability and green energy transition, despite challenges it has faced due to geopolitical events lately, said the country's petroleum minister Hardeep Singh Puri at the ongoing World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland. "Under PM Modi's leadership, India's ascent…
A WEEK ahead of the grand consecration of the Ram temple in the temple town of Ayodhya in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, devotees of Hindu Lord Ram held car rallies in 21 cities across the US with the enthusiastic participants in the national capital organising an innovative…
MONTHS after some of India's top female actors found themselves at the receiving end of the deepfake video threat, it is none other than the country's cricket icon Sachin Tendulkar who has gone through the same. Recently, a video went viral on social media in which the 50-year-old seemed to…
INDIAN-AMERICAN entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, who joined the race for the White House this year, has called off his campaign following a disappointing finish in the Iowa caucuses held on Monday (15). The 38-year-old leader endorsed former president Donald Trump who won the caucuses. Speaking to his supporters in Iowa, Ramaswamy…
INDIAN National Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, who kicked off the Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra (Unite India Justice March) from the eastern to the western most points of India on Sunday (14), on Tuesday (16) said that it is difficult for his party's leaders to take part in the consecration ceremony…
