- Saturday, March 01, 2025
The Narendra Modi government is working on bringing more than 640 products under the purview of mandatory quality control orders to ensure compliance with quality standards, the Hindu BusinessLine reported. It added that the Bureau of Indian Standards is in the middle of finalising and developing standards for emerging sectors…
An 11-year-old Australian boy has won praise for intervening after an Indian-origin bus driver on a trip from Swansea to Newcastle, located north of the New South Wales Central Coast, faced racial abuse from a woman passenger. According to 9 News, Brock Keena, who was sitting on the front seat…
India has decided to temporarily relocate its embassy from the violence-hit Sudanese capital city of Khartoum to Port Sudan in view of the prevailing security situation in the African country, the country's ministry of external affairs (MEA) said on Tuesday (2). "In view of the prevailing security situation in Sudan,…
India is set to form a committee to look into the problems that gay couples face everyday, the Narendra Modi government told the country's Supreme Court on Wednesday (3) during arguments over recognising same-sex marriages, Reuters reported. The government has opposed demands to legalise same-sex marriages on the grounds that…
Days after she faced a backlash for criticising the ongoing #MeToo protest against the chief of the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI), Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, Indian Olympic Association (IOA) president PT Usha on Wednesday (3) met the protesting wrestlers at Jantar Mantar in Delhi. The 58-year-old Usha, a former…
A Sikh restaurant owner in London is spending sleepless nights after receiving life threats after posting a video on social media on the Khalistan movement and has asked whether action will be taken only after they are dead, India Today reported. Harman Singh Kapoor's restaurant was also attacked by pro-Khalistan…
The Supreme Court of India on Wednesday (3) declined to commute the death penalty of Balwant Singh Rajoana, who was convicted in the 1995 assassination case of former chief minister of Punjab, Beant Singh, to life imprisonment. The court said the competent authority may deal with Rajoana's mercy plea. "What…
All eyes were set on the visit by Pakistani foreign minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari to India to take part in the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) foreign ministers' meeting, which will kick off on Thursday (4) in the south-western state of Goa. While both sides have tried to convey the message that…
Chinese foreign minister Qin Gang will travel to India to take part in the two-day Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) foreign ministers' meeting which will kick off on Thursday (4) in Goa, the country's foreign ministry in Beijing said on Tuesday (2). Qin will attend the upcoming SCO foreign ministers' meeting…
Indian vice president Jagdeep Dhankhar will visit the UK on Friday (5) and Saturday (6) to attend the coronation of King Charles III on behalf of the Indian government, the country's ministry of external affairs announced on Tuesday (2). India and the UK have historic relationship and share values of…
