- Sunday, March 02, 2025
Indian prime minister Narendra Modi on Sunday (26) paid tribute to women power in 'Mann Ki Baat' (Inner Thoughts) -- his monthly radio broadcast which had started since he first came to power in 2014. In his address which was also the 99th edition of the broadcast, Modi said, “This…
Ace tennis player Novak Djokovic is currently focusing on training in Belgrade in his own country Serbia after being denied entry to the US to play in the Indian Wells Masters and Miami Open. The 35-year-old, who won the Australian Open in January to equal the most Grand Slam titles…
Former US president Donald Trump has said that he could end the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict "within 24 hours" by presiding over peace talks. The one-time president, who will run for the top post in next year's presidential election, said this during an interview to Fox News but "refused" to explain…
While India is called the world's pharma capital, deaths of children in countries such as The Gambia and Uzbekistan after allegedly consuming cough syrups made in the South Asian nation seem to have hit its image in the international fraternity. To deal with the situation, the country's health ministry has…
Six years since troops from India and China faced off in Doklam in Bhutan, a small landlocked country sandwiched between the two giants, its prime minister has said that Beijing has an equal say in finding a resolution to the dispute over the high-altitude region which New Delhi believes is…
A court in Prayagraj in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday (28) held gangster-politician Atiq Ahmad and two others guilty in the 2006 Umesh Pal kidnapping case, and sentenced them to rigorous life imprisonment. Ahmad's brother Khalid Azim alias Ashraf and six others were acquitted. Government counsel…
Maharashtra, India's top sugar-producing state, could see 16 per cent less production than what was previously estimated as mills were shutting down due to limited availability of sugarcane, Reuters reported citing a senior government official on Monday (27). A slump in production in sugar could hurt India, the world's second-biggest…
Bangladeshi prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday (27) slammed the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) denouncing its call for holding a movement during Ramadan, Islam's holy month and asked it to give relief to people. According to a report in Dhaka Tribune, the Awami League leader said at a party…
Anti-national elements and smugglers have been using drones for smuggling arms and narcotics from Pakistan to the northern Indian state of Punjab and 28 incidents of recovery of such drones have been reported in the last three years, India's minister of state for home Nisith Pramanik said in the Lok…
The BBC was again in headlines in India after the official Twitter handle of BBC Punjabi News, one of the leading news sources in Punjabi language, was withheld. The account was not accessible for users in India for several hours on Tuesday (28). It was restored later. A message was…
