- Saturday, March 01, 2025
Pakistan's former prime minister Imran Khan, who is fighting battles on a number of fronts, was on Tuesday (4) granted interim bail by an anti-terrorism court in Lahore in three cases. The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader's bail was extended till April 13 in the three cases including: Zille Shah murder…
Attacks on Hindu religious centres have continued abated in Canada as a temple has been vandalised with anti-India graffiti in Windsor in the Ontario province, the city's police said in a statement. They also launched an investigation into the vandalism as a "hate-motivated incident" and were looking for two suspects…
Indian prime minister Narendra Modi on Thursday (6) set the tone for the 2024 parliamentary elections by taking a strong dig at the opposition at an event to mark his ruling Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) 44th foundation day. He said the opposition parties only talk about social justice but it…
India's National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) has come under criticism over its decision to drop from the textbook of Class XII history certain portions related to Mahatma Gandhi and how his pursuit of Hindu-Muslim unity "provoked Hindu sentiments" and on a ban on the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh…
Scores of Indian-Americans held a peaceful rally in the US state of California to register their protest against a Democratic senator for introducing a bill in the state's Senate seeking to explicitly ban caste-based discrimination. State senator Aisha Wahab, the first Muslim and Afghan American elected to the state legislature,…
British home secretary Suella Braverman, who is not new to controversy, courted a fresh one on Sunday (2) when saying in a television interview that British-Pakistani men are part of grooming gangs that "pursue, drug, rape and harm vulnerable English girls". Her remark has been criticised by Pakistani authorities. Braverman,…
Here are news in brief related to Indian economy & business for Wednesday, April 5, 2023: The unemployment rate in the northern Indian Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir declined from 6.7 per cent in 2019-20 to 5.2 per cent in 2021-22 while the urban unemployment rate dipped by 1.1…
Record imports of crude oil from Russia in the 2022-23 fiscal, when its war in Ukraine continued, helped India's refiners increase exports of diesel and jet fuel to the European continent that avoided products of Russia, preliminary ship-tracking data from Kpler and Vortexa have shown, according to Reuters. The report…
Former US president Donald Trump might have had a forgettable outing on Tuesday (4) when he was arraigned by a court in New York on 34 charges related to allegedly paying hush money to adult film actress Stormy Daniels to cover up a purported affair between the duo but he…
Shreena Patel, an abstract artist from London, recently won SHE Awards in the arts and culture category. The SHE Awards was launched in 2018 by Sharifa Begum and her husband Imdad Basit to celebrate the centenary of women's right to vote in the UK. The award recognises and celebrates the achievements…
