- Saturday, March 01, 2025
India and Russia are in the middle of a free-trade agreement (FTA), the Russian trade minister on Monday (17) said, making an announcement that could deepen bilateral commercial relations that have flourished since the Ukraine war started in February last year. According to Reuters which reported about it, the FTA…
Political drama intensified in the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the southern state of Karnataka which is due to go to elections on May 10 as Jagadish Shettar, one of its former chief ministers, decided to join the Indian National Congress on Monday (17) after getting no ticket for…
At a time when Khalistan sympathisers have been accused of targeting India in various corners of the world, a woman has alleged that she was allegedly refused entry at the Golden Temple in Amritsar in the northern Indian state of Punjab since she painted the Indian Tricolour on her face.…
The US emerged as the biggest trading partner of India in 2022-23 on account of growing economic ties between them. According to provision data released by India's commerce ministry, the bilateral trade between India and the US has grown by 7.65 per cent to $128.55 billion (£103.66 billion) in 2022-23…
A 67-year-old Australian woman of Indian origin was killed and two persons, including her daughter, were injured on Monday (17) when the car in which they were travelling plunged from a cliff in Sri Lanka. The woman, who was identified as Prakash Sharita Devi and two others were travelling when…
The Royal Challengers Bangalore versus Delhi Capitals game in the ongoing Indian Premier League (IPL) 2023 played at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru on Saturday (15) has caught headlines more for reasons outside the result. Videos emerged from the ground during and after the match, which Bangalore won by…
An Indian national lost his life on Sunday (16) after being hit by a stray bullet in Khartoum, the capital of Sudan, after violence rocked the city over clashes between regular army and paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on Saturday (15). The Indian embassy in Khartoum identified the deceased as…
Atiq Ahmed, a former Indian parliamentarian who was earlier a gangster and had several criminal cases lodged against him, was shot dead on live television along with his brother in Prayagraj in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. The 60-year-old, who was convicted of kidnapping and under police escort,…
A jawan of the Indian Army has been arrested in connection with the killing of four soldiers at a military station in Bathinda in the northern Indian state of Punjab, a senior official of the state police said on Monday (17). Gulneet Singh Khurana, senior superintendent of police, identified the…
An Indian couple who died in a major fire at an apartment in Dubai, UAE, which killed 16 people, were preparing an Iftar meal for their neighbours, a media report has said. Rijesh Kalangadan, 38, and his wife Jeshi Kandamangalath, 32, both from the southern state of Kerala, were preparing…
