- Saturday, March 01, 2025
Indian prime minister Narendra Modi is normally seen talking on development issues while campaigning for elections but on Friday (5), five days ahead of the elections in the southern state of Karnataka, he was found to have shifted his focus from development to terrorism-nationalism to attack the opposition Indian National…
At a time when a number of India's renowned wrestlers were protesting against the chief of the country's wrestling federation for allegedly harassing at least seven female wrestlers including a minor sexually, former India cricket captain Sourav Ganguly made a remark on the matter which did not go down well…
At least 13 people were killed while several were injured in two days of violence that broke out in the north-eastern Indian state of Manipur following a an opposition staged by the tribal communities to the demand made by the Meiteis, the state's majority community, for Scheduled Tribe (ST) status,…
Amid speculation that the foreign ministers of India and Pakistan would meet and speak at the two-day Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) foreign ministers' meeting in India's western state of Goa which kicked off on Thursday (4), India's external affairs minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar welcomed his Pakistani counterpart Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari at the…
In yet another instance of attack on Hindu temples in Australia, the BAPS Swaminarayan Temple in a suburb of western Sydney has been vandalised by Khalistan sympathisers. The incident happened weeks before Indian prime minister Narendra Modi's visit to the Australian port city for the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (Quad) on…
Chinese foreign minister Qin Gang on Thursday (4) reiterated his country's view that the situation at the India-China border is "generally stable" and said that both sides should take joint action to further ease and cool down the border situation and maintain sustainable peace along the Line of Actual Control…
Indian information and broadcasting minister Anurag Thakur slammed The New York Times (NYT) chairman A G Sulzberger on Thursday (4) for his claims that journalists are treated as terrorists in India. Speaking at a UNESCO event on World Press Freedom Day on Wednesday (3), Sulzberger said in India, authorities have…
Here are news in brief related to Indian economy and business for Thursday, May 4, 2023: The Adani Group is developing an integrated data centre and technology business park in Visakhapatnam in the south-eastern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh to boost the local technology ecosystem in the region, ANI reported.…
Pilots, including many from Go First which has filed for bankruptcy, on Thursday (4) went for a walk-in interview with Air India, owned by Indian conglomerate Tata Group, at one of its hotels near Delhi, Reuters reported. The cash-strapped airline cancelled all its flights till Tuesday (9), extending the suspension…
US president Joe Biden has said that Ajay Banga, the new president of World Bank due to take over next month, will be a "transformative leader" and bring expertise, experience and innovation to the top position at the international financial institution. He said this after the Indian-born Banga was confirmed…
