NINETEEN PEOPLE were reportedly injured following a gas leak at a plant of Tata Steel in Dhenkanal in the eastern Indian state of Odisha on Tuesday (13). The injured were rushed to a nearby hospital. The incident happened at the time of an inspection. Confirming the incident, the company said…
RAHUL GANDHI, one of India's major opposition faces who is currently touring the US, recently travelled from Washington to New York in a truck and got into a candid conversation with the driver that centred around the everyday lives of Indian-origin truck drivers in America. Gandhi's journey in the US…
INDIAN NAVY frigate INS Trishul reached the Durban port in South Africa last week for a three-day tour to mark several historic events, PTI reported. However, the most significant among them is the completion of three decades of the resumption of diplomatic relations between India and South Africa after a…
RUSSIA IS keen to expand and deepen its bilateral ties with Pakistan as the first shipment carrying its discounted oil reached the Karachi port in the South Asian nation at the weekend, Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov has said. He made the remarks in a video message on the 75th…
The Biden family is planning to host an intimate dinner for Indian prime minister Narendra Modi on June 21, a day before the much-in-demand state dinner at the White House, a senior administration official has said. Modi has been invited by US president Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden…
THREE PERSONS were killed while another three got injured in "horrific and tragic" attacks in Nottingham that are reportedly connected. According to the BBC, police discovered two bodies in Ilkeston Road around 4.00 BST, before they were called to Milton Street where a vehicle had tried to run over three.…
STRONG TREMORS were felt after a 5.4-magnitude earthquake struck the eastern part of the Indian Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir around 1.30 pm local time on Tuesday (13) afternoon, the European Mediterranean Seismological Centre said. Preliminary reports said the quake took place 18 kilometres away from Gandoh Bhalessa village…
TWITTER CO-FOUNDER Jack Dorsey in sensational allegations claimed the Indian government threatened to shut Twitter down unless it complied with orders to restrict accounts during farmers' protest, an accusation that the country's minister of state for information technology Rajeev Chandrasekhar dismissed as an "outright lie". In an interview, Dorsey, who…
INDIA CAPTAIN Rohit Sharma, who has been facing flak after his side was crushed by Australia in the final of the World Test Championship (WTC) final by Australia at The Oval on Sunday (11) by 209 runs, said the team's mindset and strategy will change completely when it plays the…
PAKISTAN might have a historically disturbed relationship India owing to many factors but one of its major business leaders feels that economically, Islamabad has to learn from its adversary and also focus on regional trade ties with the latter. Mian Mohammad Mansha, chairman of the Nishat Group, one of Pakistan's…