- Tuesday, March 04, 2025
When his teacher requested him for help to improve the infrastructure of a school in the southern Indian state of Telangana, he responded at once even as he is settled in the US. Parikipandla Prasanth, who hails from Ponkal village of Mamada Mandal in Nirmal district of the state, donated…
Most parts of Kashmir received fresh snowfall on Friday (20) leading to the closure of the Srinagar-Jammu national highway and impacting flight operations to and from the Valley, officials in Srinagar said. Snowfall was recorded in tourist towns of Pahalgam and Gulmarg, as well as in Anantnag, Kulgam, Shopian, Pulwama,…
Sri Lanka on Friday (20) thanked India for the generous support of a $3.9 billion (£3.15 billion) credit line last year and the assurances given to the IMF to restructure the country's debt after India's external affairs minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar conveyed India's commitment to increase investment flows to hasten the…
Chinese president Xi Jinping took part in a video conversation with the soldiers stationed along the country's border in eastern Ladakh and inspected their combat readiness, official media in Beijing reported on Friday (20). Xi addressed the troops from the People's Liberation Army (PLA) headquarters in the Chinese capital on…
The 102-year-old cricket bat industry in Kashmir has upped its standards over the years to compete with manufacturers that work with the fabled English willow. But bat-makers fear a shortage of clefts might force closure of the Rs 300-crore (£30 million) enterprise that provides livelihood to over 100,000 people. "We…
British prime minister Rishi Sunak has found himself in the middle of yet another row and apologised for his actions. The Conservative leader was found speaking on camera in a moving car without wearing a seatbelt while recording a government campaign ad. According to the BBC, a video of the…
Swati Maliwal, the chief of Delhi Commission for Women (DCW), on Friday (19) asked as to why the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) president has not been asked to resign, in the wake allegations of sexual harassment levelled against him by women wrestlers. Celebrated Indian wrestlers, including Olympic medallists Bajrang…
As he stitches together the final threads of his latest Paris Fashion Week collection, acclaimed Indian fashion designer Rahul Mishra is taking inspiration from France -- and a fellow master from another era. "I want to achieve the impossible, I want to paint air," he told AFP, quoting the 19th-century…
Indian carrier Air India has been slapped with a fine of Rs 30 lakh (£29,916) while the license of the pilot, who was in charge of the controversial New York-Delhi flight of November 26 last year where a drunk passenger allegedly urinated on an elderly woman co-passenger, has been suspended…
Footage showing Swati Maliwal, the chief of Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) being allegedly molested by an inebriated man and dragged by his car for 10-15 metres with her hand stuck in the vehicle's window has been recovered, police said on Friday (20). Maliwal is seen in the video, which…
