- Tuesday, February 25, 2025
INDIAN cricket might witness a major transition in the days to come following the debacle in the final of the just concluded 50-over World Cup. The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) will hold a meeting with Rohit Sharma, India's current full-time captain in all three formats, to…
OFFICIALS of the Indian government have decided that a regulation will soon be brought in to control the menace of deepfakes that have targeted some of the country's women celebrities and even prime minister Narendra Modi, who raised concerns over it more than once in the past few days, including…
INDIA and ASEAN on Wednesday (22) launched a five-day Millets Festival in Jakarta, a move aimed at raising awareness and creating a market for millets and millets-based products among the 10-member bloc. “The prime minister (Narendra Modi) participated in the ASEAN-India Summit and East Asia Summit on September 7. During…
HERE are news in brief related to Indian economy and business for Wednesday, November 22, 2023: Indian external affairs minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar on Wednesday sought investments from Nordic-Baltic countries in the development of ports, renewable energy, food processing and fisheries, saying India has put in place institutional frameworks for closer…
PAKISTAN has applied for membership in the BRICS grouping and sought Russia's support, the country's envoy to Moscow Muhammad Khalid Jamali has said. Pakistan has filed an application to join the BRICS group of nations in 2024 and is counting on Russia's assistance during the membership process, Russia's official TASS…
INDIAN prime minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday (22) said it is important to ensure that the deadly conflict between Israel and Palestinian militant outfit Hamas did not escalate into a regional war and said despite the "difficulties", the world could still strive towards achieving peace. Modi, who backed Israel on…
THE brother of blogger Jagtar Singh Johal, who has been detained in an Indian jail for more than six years now, has expressed hope that the new foreign secretary, David Cameron, would succeed in securing his release. Gurpreet Singh Johal felt Cameron, who recently made a dramatic comeback into frontline…
BHUPENDRA Patel, chief minister of the western Indian state of Gujarat, on Tuesday (21) declared the 'Ghol' or 'Jew' fish as the state fish. He made the announcement at the two-day Global Fisheries Conference India 2023 which was held in the state's Ahmedabad city. Tuesday was also the World Fisheries…
DRILLING to create an escape passage for 41 workers trapped in the Silkyara tunnel in Uttarkashi in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand for 10 days resumed on Tuesday (21) night and there were just 18 metres to go before the drilling machine breaks through the rubble, officials said Wednesday…
INDIA'S elite counter-terror agency National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Wednesday (22) carried out raids at 14 locations in the northern states of Punjab and Haryana in connection with its probe into attacks on the Indian consulate in San Francisco in the US earlier this year, an official spokesperson said. The…
