- Monday, March 03, 2025
India faced pro-Khalistan protesters staging demonstrations in four major democracies around the world over the last few days after authorities in its northern state of Punjab launched a massive manhunt to nab radical preacher and Khalistan separatist Amritpal Singh on Saturday (18) but New Delhi dealt with the show of…
Yogi Adityanath, the monk chief minister of the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh is often seen as a poster boy of Hindutva and is expected to be the next big thing for the country's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) after prime minister Narendra Modi. His administration has often been…
Ajay Banga, former chief executive of Mastercard and the US nominee to lead the World Bank, was set to arrive in India on Thursday (23) to meet prime minister Narendra Modi, external affairs minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar and finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman. The Indian-born Banga's visit to India will conclude his…
A bill seeking to explicitly ban caste discrimination has been introduced in the California Senate by a Democratic lawmaker, which, if passed, could make America's most populous state also the country's first to outlaw caste-based bias. State senator Aisha Wahab, the first Muslim and Afghan-American elected to the state legislature,…
Indian National Congress leader Rahul Gandhi was on Thursday found guilty in a four-year-old defamation case and sentenced to two years in prison. A court in Surat in the western Indian state of Gujarat gave the verdict over remarks that Gandhi allegedly made targeting the surname of prime minister Narendra…
India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Thursday (23) lashed out Indian National Congress leader Rahul Gandhi after the latter was convicted by a court in the western state of Gujarat in a 2019 defamation case over his alleged remarks about the surname of prime minister Narendra Modi. The court…
Weeks after he took on the Narendra Modi government in the UK, Indian National Congress leader Rahul Gandhi was on Thursday (23) found guilty in a 2019 criminal defamation case over a remark made about the prime minister's Modi surname in Surat in the western state of Gujarat. The 52-year-old…
India had a heartbreaking series loss against Australia on Wednesday (22) when the visitors defeated them by 21 runs to clinch the three-match one-day international (ODI) series 2-1. But more than the team's defeat, it was Suryakumar Yadav's disastrous show with the bat in the series which became a hot…
Australia produced a clinical show in the third and final one-day international (ODI) against India at the MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai to beat the hosts by 21 runs and clinch the three-match series 2-1. Batting first after winning the toss, the visitors scored 269 runs losing all their wickets…
The Indian high commission in London witnessed more chaos on Wednesday (22) as pro-Khalistan protesters shouted slogans and threw water bottles and ink at the Metropolitan Police as their officers tried to restrict them at a safe distance from the diplomatic premises. The incident happened three days after an act…
