- Tuesday, March 04, 2025
India on Monday (6) said that it will dispatch rescue and medical teams to Turkey following a 7.8 magnitude earthquake that killed over 500 people and toppled buildings in central Turkey and northwest Syria earlier in the day. Indian prime minister Narendra Modi took to Twitter and condoled the loss…
It's been a year since Lata Manageshkar left the world, but her memories and voice continue to give solace to family members, who are yet to come to terms with the singing legend's death. Mangeshkar, who passed away at the age of 92 on February 6 last year, was an…
Pakistani interior minister Rana Sanaullah on Monday (6) warned former prime minister Imran Khan that he would be arrested if he dared to launch fresh anti-government protests, and blamed the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief for indulging in the "politics of agitation." Sanaullah fired the salvo at the former prime minister…
Former US secretary of state Hillary Clinton on Monday (6) announced a Global Climate Resilience Fund of $50 million (£41.4 million) for women to fight climate change. The fund will empower women and communities to fight climate change and help provide new livelihood resources and education, she said addressing salt…
A 7.8-magnitude earthquake hit Turkey and Syria early on Monday (6), killing hundreds of people as they slept, levelling buildings and sending tremors that were felt as far away as the island of Cyprus, Egypt and Iraq. One of the largest quakes to strike Turkey in a century wiped out…
Indian National Congress parliamentarian Shashi Tharoor, who served as a junior foreign minister in the government of former prime minister Manmohan Singh, on Sunday (5) hit back at criticism over his take on Pervez Musharraf, the former military dictator of Pakistan who passed away in Dubai the same day. In…
During the Bali Summit in Indonesia in December last year, India took over the G20 presidency. Because it has elevated prime minister Narendra Modi to the rank of a preeminent global thinker and world leaders are looking to him to provide firm solutions in this time of war and rising…
Pakistan's exiled former military ruler Pervez Musharraf, who became a key US ally during the "war on terror", died in a Dubai hospital on Sunday (5) aged 79 after a long illness. Musharraf seized power in a 1999 bloodless coup and was acting simultaneously as Pakistan's army chief, chief executive,…
Indian prime minister Narendra Modi will on Monday (6) inaugurate a greenfield helicopter production facility of state-run aerospace behemoth Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) in Tumakuru in the southern state of Karnataka that will initially produce light utility helicopters (LUHs). The defence ministry billed the 615-acre factory as India's largest helicopter-manufacturing…
The North American Punjabi Association (NAPA), a US-based NRI body, has said immigrants from the state are worried about "unauthorised" sale of their properties back home. NAPA executive director Satnam Singh Chahal demanded the state government amend policies on immigrant Punjabis. In a release issued in Chandigarh, the capital of…
