- Saturday, March 01, 2025
Jai Parkash, a prominent minority leader of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) of former prime minister Imran Khan, on Friday (19) quit, thus becoming the latest politician to exit the party following the May 9 attack on military installations and government buildings in Pakistan following the arrest of Khan. Violent protests broke…
C Manikandan, a small-time film actor and producer in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, has done something which he might not have imagined in his wildest thought -- buying the family home of Google chief executive Sundar Pichai in a quiet, residential area of Ashok Nagar in Chennai,…
Indian prime minister Narendra Modi on Friday (19) met members of the Indian diaspora after arriving in Hiroshima in Japan for the G7 summit. A popular figure with the Indian community overseas, Modi interacted with people and children as he reached the Sheraton Hotel in the Japanese city. He is…
Ahead of the 2024 general elections, the Narendra Modi government on Wednesday (16) held a day-long brainstorming session on improving its public outreach, particularly to those who do not have access to television and newspapers. The move came three days after the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party led by prime minister…
A panel appointed by India's Supreme Court examining the regulatory mechanism in a probe linked to US-based short seller Hindenburg's allegations on Friday (12) gave a clean chit to Indian conglomerate Adani Group, saying it appears there was no regulatory failure on part of the Securities Exchange Board of India…
Officials of India and the US have intensified talks on co-producing jet engines, long-range artillery and infantry vehicles under the Initiative on Critical and Emerging Technologies (iCET) ahead of prime minister Narendra Modi's state visit to Washington next month. The national security advisors of India and the US -- Ajit…
The long and agonising wait for green cards for people from India, China, Mexico and the Philippines is mainly due to the country-based quota system in its allocation which can be changed only by the US Congress, a senior official has said. A Green Card, known officially as a Permanent…
Commandos of India's elite National Security Guard (NSG) on Thursday (18) carried out an area domination and security sanitisation exercise in Lal Chowk area of Srinagar, the summer capital of the northern Indian Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir, ahead of a G20 meet next week, officials said. The Jammu…
Senior diplomats of India and Ukraine are exploring the possibility of a bilateral meeting between prime minister Narendra Modi and Ukranian president Volodymyr Zelensky on the sidelines of the G7 summit in Hiroshima, people familiar with the matter said on Friday (19). If the meeting takes place, then it will…
Whenever prime minister Narendra Modi visits abroad, he makes it a point to meet and mingle with the Indian diaspora with the country that he visits. The non-resident Indians (NRIs) of that country also give the Indian leader a grand welcome. Things will not be any different when Modi visits…
