- Saturday, March 01, 2025
Natural disasters, especially heavy floods and cyclones, triggered around 2.5 million internal displacements in India in 2022, according to a report by the Geneva-based Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre. South Asia witnessed 12.5 million internal displacements due to disasters in 2022 with 90 per cent of the movements in the region…
India and the European Union have agreed to coordinate their policies in the strategic semiconductor sector with an aim to conclude an agreement by September in the first ministerial meeting of the Trade and Technology Council (TTC) in Brussels. A day after the high-level meeting, India's ministry of external affairs…
N Chandrasekaran, chairman of India's Tata Sons has been conferred France's highest civilian award Chevalier de la Legion d'honneur for his contributions to strengthen the trade relationship between India and France. French minister for Europe and foreign affairs Catherine Colonna gave the award to Chandrasekaran on behalf of the French…
India's external affairs minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar has virtually disapproved of the European Union (EU) foreign and security policy chief Josep Borrell's call for a crackdown on India for reselling Russian crude oil into Europe as refined fuel ignoring western sanctions against Moscow. Borrell said on Tuesday (16) that Brussels was…
Policemen generally run after culprits but Lancaster remained witness to a strange chase this week as the local cops were seen going after a goat that escaped and the chase was such a long story that it even caused traffic chaos. Yes you read it right. It all happened when…
Designed by renowned Ghanaian-British architect Sir David Adjaye in collaboration with S. Ghosh & Associates, Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA) will unveil an architectural model of its new building during the preview of the 18th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia this week. It is set to…
A week after his arrest outside a court in Islamabad and a protest by his supporters that erupted across the country, Pakistan's former prime minister Imran Khan on Wednesday (17) claimed that police officers surrounded his house in Lahore for yet another arrest. He also said that he was perhaps…
Srichand Parmanand Hinduja, the eldest of the four Hinduja brothers and chairman of the Hinduja Group, died in London on Wednesday (17) after a prolonged illness. His family said the patriarch passed away peacefully with the loved ones around. He was 87. He is survived by his three businessmen brothers…
The Indian National Congress may have defeated the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the recently held elections in the southern state of Karnataka but it is yet to pick the new chief minister between DK Shivakumar, the state party chief, and Siddaramaiah, a former chief minister of Karnataka. On Wednesday…
Describing Islamabad as an important partner in the region, the White House on Tuesday (16) said it wants to see a successful Pakistan. "We want to see Pakistan be a success. And we want to see the Pakistan government live up to the strongest aspirations of the Pakistani people," John…
