- Friday, February 28, 2025
With three cheetahs and as many cubs dying at the Kuno National Park in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh in past three months, India's environment minister Bhupender Yadav on Thursday (1) said, "We take responsibility for whatever happened", but asserted that the translocation project will be a major…
Indian National Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, who is currently in the US where he has criticised the Narendra Modi government in India, on Wednesday (31) told an audience he was speaking to at a session with startup entrepreneurs in Sunnyvale, California, that he knew his phone was being tapped but…
Whenever Indian National Congress leader Rahul Gandhi visits abroad and criticises the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government of prime minister Narendra Modi, the saffron party in India lashes out at him and accuses him of insulting the country on foreign soil. Gandhi's ongoing tour of the US which started earlier…
India's external affairs minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar on Thursday (1) met his counterparts from Russia, South Africa and Saudi Arabia over bilateral meetings on the sidelines of the BRICS foreign ministers' meeting which kicked off in Cape Town in South Africa the same day. Tweeting about his meeting with his Russian…
The National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT), an autonomous organisation of the Indian government, has decided to drop some key chapters in both science and social sciences from textbooks of Class 10 as part of a "rationalisation" exercise. It has been reported that the council deleted chapters on…
The iconic Deccan Queen, the first deluxe train of the Indian Railways, completed 93 glorious years of operations between Pune and Mumbai on Thursday (1), according to the Central Railway. Rail enthusiasts and authorities celebrated the occasion with a lot of zeal and cut two big cakes at the Pune…
India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Thursday (1) lambasted Raghuram Rajan, noted economist and former governor of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), following the release of the National Statistical Office (NSO) report which stated that India's growth rate for the entire FY23 stood at 7.2 per cent. It…
Stories related to corruption are not new in India but recently, a video surfaced on social media showing villagers in Jalna district of the western state of Maharashtra 'lifting' a newly laid road with their bare hands, leaving netizens shocked. The 38-second clip shows a carpet-like material placed below the…
Foreign ministers of five nations of the BRICS grouping met in Cape Town in South Africa for a two-day meeting starting Thursday (1) as they seek to establish themselves as a counterweight to the West's geopolitical dominance in the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. According to…
Indian home minister Amit Shah on Thursday (1) warned of taking strict action against those who did not surrender arms in the north-eastern state of Manipur which has been witnessing disturbance for almost a month now. In an effort to restore peace in the state which shares an international border,…
