- Tuesday, March 04, 2025
Indian prime minister Narendra Modi will flag off the 'Ganga Vilas Cruise' on January 13 and preparations for the programme have started, district authorities said on Thursday (5). "Prime Minister Narendra Modi will flag off the world's longest cruise tour from Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh to Dibrugarh in Assam via…
A bizarre incident was recently caught on camera in Mooresville in North Carolina, US, where a fiery lightning strike on a parked vehicle turned its headlights on. The incident happened on Wednesday (4) morning at Mooresville's JR Motorsports. JR Motorsports shared a video of the incident on Twitter an captioned…
The Indian government on Friday (6) banned the People's Anti-Fascist Front (PAFF), a proxy outfit of the terror group Jaish-e-Mohammed, for its involvement in terror acts in Jammu and Kashmir and elsewhere. The country's home ministry also designated Arbaz Ahmad Mir, a Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) member, as an individual terrorist under…
An Indian-American body has welcomed the nomination of lawyer diplomat Richard Verma for the deputy secretary of state, a top diplomatic position in the US state department. In December, the White House in a statement said that president Joe Biden announced his intent to nominate 54-year-old Verma to be deputy…
Shankar Mishra, the man accused of urinating on an elderly woman while drunk on board an Air India flight between New York and Delhi in November last year, was arrested by the Delhi Police from Bengaluru in the southern Indian state of Karnataka late on Friday (6) night. He was…
Pushkar Singh Dhami, the chief minister of the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand, on Friday (6) ordered an immediate evacuation of around 600 families living in houses that have developed huge cracks and are at risk in the holy town of Joshimath town which is said to be 'sinking'. "Saving…
Pakistan's last pair Naseem Shah and Abrar Ahmed survived 21 balls in fading light Friday while Sarfaraz Ahmed hit a fighting century to deprive New Zealand of a victory, bringing the second Test to a sensational draw in Karachi. New Zealand were in sight of a series-clinching victory after dismissing…
US financial services company Wells Fargo on Friday (6) terminated Shankar Mishra, the vice president of its entity in India, as the latter was accused of urinating on an elderly woman in the business class of an Air India flight from New York to Delhi in November last year. Mishra…
The Narendra Modi government of India has put a ban on tourism activities at a key pilgrimage site in the country for the Jain religious community, which includes around 4.5 million believers. The holy site Sammed Sikharji is located at an environmentally sensitive area atop Parasnath Hill, the highest mountain…
The year 2023 has started on a devastating note for thousands of tech workers globally as companies have already laid off more people in the first five days of January than they did in the entire December last year. Citing data from tracking website Layoffs Tracker, Moneycontrol reported that tech…
