- Tuesday, February 25, 2025
A BIG political controversy erupted in India on Tuesday (21) when Indian National Congress leader Rahul Gandhi allegedly called prime minister Narendra Modi a "panauti" (bad omen) and said it was his presence during the final of the ICC Men's cricket World Cup 2023 in Ahmedabad in the western state…
A COMPANY in Gurugram in the northern Indian state of Haryana on Monday (20) offered its employees a day's leave to recover from the emotional setback they suffered after India lost the cricket World Cup final against Australia in Ahmedabad the previous night. Billions of Indian fans were left shattered…
RESCUE officials on Tuesday (21) released the first video of the workers trapped inside the Silkyara tunnel in Uttarkashi district of the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand for 10 days. The visuals were captured using an endoscopic camera sent in through the alternative 6-inch pipeline, which was pushed in through…
INDIA'S Narendra Modi government on Tuesday (21) issued an advisory to the country's private television channels, asking them to refrain from sensationalising the coverage of the rescue operations at Silkyara in Uttarakhand, where 41 workers are trapped inside a tunnel for 10 days. The advisory, issued by the information and…
ISRAEL on Tuesday (21) listed Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) as a ‘terror organisation'. The move comes ahead of the 15th year anniversary of the 26/11 terror attacks in Mumbai that killed over 160 people, including a number of Israeli nationals. “To symbolise the marking of the 15th year of commemoration of…
INDIAN-BORN Canadian member of parliament Chandra Arya on Monday (20) shared a purported video of pro-Khalistan supporters in Surrey in Canada claiming they want to create trouble at the Hindu Laxmi Narayan Mandir there. Along with the video that he shared on social media platform X, Arya urged the Canadian…
HERE are news in brief on Indian economy and business for Monday, November 20, 2023: Indian information and broadcasting minister Anurag Thakur on Monday said India will become the third largest media and entertainment market in the world in the next five years. Speaking at the inauguration of the 54th…
IN a discomforting revelation, a survey has found that in India, the majority of organ donors are women who almost everytime donate their kidneys to men. Between 1995 and 2021, among 36,640 transplant recipients, four-fifths of living donors were women, while four-fifths of recipients were men, as per data analysis…
INDIAN prime minister Narendra Modi, who attended the later part of the ICC Men's cricket World Cup 2023 final in Ahmedabad in his home state of Gujarat on Sunday (19), paid a visit to the Indian cricket team's dressing room at the Narendra Modi Stadium following its hear-breaking defeat against…
AUTHORITIES in Uttar Pradesh, India's most populous state, have put a ban on distribution and sale of Halal-certified products, including dairy, garments and even medicine with immediate effect, calling it illegal. Bakery products, edible oil, sugar and other products that are labelled as 'Halal-certified' by farms manufacturing them would not…
