- Tuesday, March 04, 2025
German chancellor Olaf Scholz is set to pay a state visit to India on February 25 and 26, his first trip to the country more than a year after he took charge of the top post in December 2021. Announcing the German chancellor's visit, the Indian ministry of external affairs…
Indian prime minister Narendra Modi and his Singaporean counterpart Lee Hsien Loong will witness the launch of cross-border connectivity between the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) of India and PayNow of Singapore on Tuesday (21) via video conferencing, his office said. The launch will be done by Shaktikanta Das, governor of…
Ritesh Agarwal, founder and chief executive officer of Softbank-backed OYO, a prominent name in the hospitality industry, recently called on Indian prime minister Narendra Modi with his mother and fiancee to invite him to his marriage next month. The 29-year-old entrepreneur, who is one of the youngest Indian billionaires, later…
In a spine-chilling incident, a 20-year-old man in the southern Indian state of Karnataka allegedly killed a courier delivery agent who brought him an iPhone because he was unable to pay the price. The accused, identified as Hemanth Dutt, allegedly stabbed Hemanth Naik, who worked for EKart at his home…
The row in the politics of the western Indian state of Maharashtra over the country's election commission granting the name and electoral symbol of the Shiv Sena, a right-wing Hindu nationalist political party, escalated further on Sunday (19) as former chief minister Uddhav Thackeray slammed the country's ruling Bharatiya Janata…
A journalist from Pakistan has said that the aid that Islamabad dispatched to earthquake-devastated Turkey was nothing but the same aid that the latter had sent to the south Asian country during its devastating floods in 2022. Recently, Pakistan, which is coping with financial hardships, sent C-130 aircraft with relief…
A senior scientist at the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) has cautioned that the temperature in Delhi could go up to 33 degree Celsius in a few days time, bringing the focus back on the key issue of climate change, a major environmental threat to south Asia in recent times. The…
Days before Russia's military adventure in Ukraine completed its first anniversary, US president Joe Biden on Monday (20) visited Kyiv, the capital of the war-devastated east European nation. Rolling Stone reported that Biden's visit to Ukraine was a surprising one which aimed to underscore Washington's support for president Zelensky and…
The special investigation team (SIT) appointed by the government of the western Indian state of Gujarat government has in its preliminary probe found that corrosion on nearly half of the wires on a cable and welding of old suspenders with new ones were some of the major faults that led…
Australia captain Pat Cummins left the tour of India on Monday (20) to return home because of a family illness, but will return in time for next week's third Test. "Pat Cummins has flown home for personal reasons due to a serious family illness," said a Cricket Australia statement. "He…
