- Saturday, March 01, 2025
Twenty-one policemen accused of gangraping 11 tribal women at a village in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh 16 years ago have been acquitted by a special court. According to the Press Trust of India, the court held that the accused were primarily acquitted because of the failure of…
Indian prime minister Narendra Modi on Saturday (8) visited two southern states of Telangana and Tamil Nadu where he either inaugurated or laid the foundation of a slew of development projects besides flagging off two semi high-speed Vande Bharat (VB) Express trains. Modi, whose Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is not…
Pakistan president Arif Alvi on Saturday (8) returned to the country's parliament for reconsideration a bill aimed at clipping the powers of the chief justice, citing that the proposed legislation is beyond the jurisdiction of the legislative body and can be assailed as a "colourable legislation". Pakistan is witnessing a…
A missing six-year-old boy from Texas, whose parents fled to India from the US and face felony charges of abandoning and endangering their child, is believed to be dead, a top police official has said. Noel Rodriguez-Alvarez, who has special needs, was last seen in November shortly after his twin…
Five Indian-origin women executives have made it to Barron's prestigious annual '100 Most Influential Women in US Finance' list for achieving positions of prominence in the financial services industry and helping shape its future. Barron's is a sister publication of the Wall Street Journal, published by Dow Jones and Company.…
Saturday (8) will see a mega clash in the ongoing Indian Premier League (IPL) 2023 as the two teams with the most number of crowns -- Mumbai Indians (five) and Chennai Super Kings (four) -- will lock horns at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai. Ahead of the match, Chennai's Moeen…
The remark made by Sharad Pawar, one of India's senior opposition politicians, that the Adani Group was seemingly targeted by US-based short seller Hindenburg Research has caused uneasiness among in the camp opposed to prime minister Narendra Modi and his ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The Indian National Congress, which…
Indian president Droupadi Murmu on Saturday (8) flew a sortie on a Sukhoi 30MKI fighter jet at the Tezpur Air Force Station in the northeastern state of Assam. Videos showed her taking her maiden sortie on a fighter plane and becoming the second woman president of India to fly a…
Indian prime minister Narendra Modi will launch the International Big Cat Alliance (IBCA) on Sunday (9), government sources said on Saturday (8). IBCA will focus on the protection and conservation of seven major big cats of the world -- tiger, lion, leopard, snow leopard, puma, jaguar and cheetah. The launch…
In what will be the first official visit from Ukraine since Russian troops launched an offensive against the east European country in February last year, its first deputy foreign minister Emine Dzhaparova will be in India for four days starting Monday (10). She will discuss bilateral ties, exchange views on…
