- Thursday, April 24, 2025
A COURT in the US has barred an Indian-origin doctor from practising medicine as he is facing a number of charges of attempted murder for allegedly driving his family off a cliff in California earlier this year, according to a media report. Dharmesh A Patel, a radiologist, was charged with…
ENDING MONTHS of speculation around the Asia Cup, the Asian Cricket Council (ACC) on Thursday (15) announced that the tournament will be staged in a hybrid model with four games in Pakistan and nine in Sri Lanka from August 31 to September 17. The deadlock over the staging of the…
AVTAR SINGH Khanda, UK-based chief of Khalistan Liberation Force (KLF) and a close aide to jailed radical preacher Amritpal Singh, on Thursday (15) passed away at a hospital in Birmingham. Khanda, who allegedly helped Singh evade the police for more than a month in March and April, was suspected of…
Cyclone Biparjoy, packing maximum sustained winds with speeds of up to 145 kilometres per hour, is swirling towards the coast of the western Indian state of Gujarat and is expected to make landfall near Jakhau port in the state's Kutch district on Thursday (15). With the India Meteorological Department (IMD)…
AS PEOPLE standing on the way of Cyclone Biparjoy waited with bated breath its arrival that threatened massive destruction and human lives and authorities were leaving no stone unturned to ensure that the impact was minimum, a television news anchor herself became the headlines while covering the calamity. In an…
A SINGAPOREAN man of Chinese origin has been convicted of verbally insulting and kicking in the chest an Indian lady, who did not wear her mask properly while brisk walking to the workplace during Covid-19. Wong Xing Fong, 32, attacked Madam Hindocha Nita Vishnubhai, 57, near the Northvale condominium in…
THE UNITED Nations General Assembly has adopted a draft resolution introduced by India to set up a memorial wall in the headquarters of the world body to honour fallen peacekeepers. Ruchira Kamboj, India's permanent representative to the UN, introduced the draft resolution titled ‘Memorial wall for fallen United Nations peacekeepers' on…
THE GOVERNMENT of Pakistan has stopped operations of small aircraft in areas that are threatened by the advancing Cyclone Biparjoy predicting an inclement weather amid the storm's expected landfall on Thursday (15), Dawn reported. Authorities are also considering suspending commercial flights and according to the report, the Pakistan International Airlines…
MORE THAN 100,000 people had been evacuated in India and Pakistan ahead of the expected landfall Thursday of a fierce cyclone which could devastate homes and tear down power lines. Biparjoy, a cyclone whose name means "disaster" in Bengali, is making its way across the Arabian Sea and is expected…
EMINENT INDIAN historian and writer Ramchandra Guha has won the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography 2023 for his book Rebels Against the Raj: Western Fighters for India's Freedom published by William Collins. The 65-year-old won a prize money of £5,000 and a bound copy of The Pebbled Shore, Elizabeth…
