- Monday, April 28, 2025
India's external affairs minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar on Thursday (19) arrived in Colombo for a much-anticipated visit to Sri Lanka, where he will meet the cash-strapped country's top leadership to finalise a debt restructuring plan to help the island-nation carve out a path from its worst economic crisis. Jaishankar, who rounded…
In dreadful incidents, six people, including three children, were killed after their throats were slit by 'manja' or glass-coated kite strings during an annual kite-flying festival held in India recently. Several people unfurled their kites towards the sky from their house rooftops at the Uttarayan festival in the western Indian…
Indian auto manufacturer Mahindra has been named the fastest-growing brand in South Africa for the year 2022 as the company’s local subsidiary set several records in the last year, according to a report by the National Association of Automobile Manufacturers of South Africa (NAAMSA). The report said that ‘Mahindra SA’…
Aruna Miller has scripted history by becoming the first Indian-American politician to be sworn in as the lieutenant governor in the state of Maryland, adjoining the US capital. Aruna, 58, a former delegate to the Maryland House, made history on Wednesday (18) when the Democrat became the 10th lieutenant governor…
Conservationists in India were outraged after a minister in the country's southern state of Kerala reportedly suggested sterilisation or culling to keep the tiger population under check. AK Saseendran, the state's wildlife minister, was speaking amid the outrage after a tiger killed a farmer recently away from the forest area.…
Following his side's 12-run win over New Zealand in the first one-day international (ODI), India skipper Rohit Sharma admitted that his team "slipped up with the ball". A top-class bowling effort from Mohammed Siraj outweighed Michael Bracewell's heroic ton and partnership with Mitchell Santner as India overcame a late onslaught…
India's capital New Delhi has often found itself in the headlines for wrong reasons such as crime against women. Recently, the news of a 20-year-old woman getting killed after she was dragged by a car for a long distance in the city on the New Year's Day shook the entire…
As a trade war escalates between the US and China and restrictions imposed by Washington obstructing Beijing's ambition to become a semiconductor superpower, India could have an opportunity to capitalise on the situation and realise its own global aspiration to emerge as a chip-manufacturing hub, sector experts have predicted. According…
The Indian opposition Indian National Congress on Thursday (19) slammed the Narendra Modi government over the allegations of sexual exploitation against the chief of the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI), Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, who is also a parliamentarian of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The Congress asked if…
Shubman Gill scored a brilliant 208 as India held on to beat New Zealand by 12 runs in the first one-day international in Hyderabad on Wednesday (18) despite a blistering century from Michael Bracewell. India looked to be coasting to victory with New Zealand in deep trouble at 131-6 while…
