- Wednesday, March 05, 2025
The Indian Navy on Tuesday (20) received the fifth Scorpene-class submarine Vagir ahead of its planned commissioning next month, officials said. The induction of the submarine, built under Project-75, is set to bolster the Indian Navy's combat capability at a time when China has been increasing its presence in the…
For Subhadra, it could not have been more pleasantly surprising. The 46-year-old woman from Kerala, one of India's southernmost states, had asked for help to feed her children and she ended up receiving millions in donations from strangers on social media, the BBC reported. Subhadra, according to the report, had…
Craze for football is not new in India. Even though the country is one of the poorly placed teams in international football, there is no dearth of excitement about the game, particularly when the FIFA World Cup is around. The southern Indian state of Kerala stormed the headlines after the…
Here are news in brief related to Indian economy and business for Tuesday, December 20, 2022: Fitch Ratings expects India's power demand to be about 8 per cent in the financial year ending March 2023 (FY23), against 8.2 per cent in FY22, ANI reported. In a report -- India Power…
After the easing of Covid-19 restrictions, China is experiencing a massive surge in coronavirus cases. Hospitals are completely overwhelmed in China, reported Eric Feigl-Ding, an epidemiologist and health economist. The epidemiologist estimates that more than 60 per cent of China and 10 per cent of Earth's population are likely to…
Pakistan foreign minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on Tuesday (20) slammed a leader of India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) after the latter reportedly announced a bounty worth Rs 2 crore (£198,730) on his head over an objectionable remark made against Indian prime minister Narendra Modi recently. Zardari, the son and…
Pakistan's security forces on Tuesday (20) launched a major operation to rescue hostages taken by the Taliban militants in the restive Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province after talks between the government and the militants failed to resolve the standoff. The standoff began on Sunday (18) when an arrested TTP (Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan) militant,…
Britain's first Indian-origin prime minister Rishi Sunak has defended the UK's record on race amid a brewing row over controversial remarks by a columnist attacking Prince Harry's wife Meghan Markle, who is of African-American heritage. Sunak was addressing questions posed by reporters during a visit to the Latvian capital of…
The Indian parliament remained witness to a huge row on Tuesday (20) as the country's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) sought an apology from Mallikarjun Kharge, the president of the opposition Indian National Congress, over an controversial dig he took at the saffron party. In his remarks made on Monday…
No breakthrough was achieved on Tuesday (20) in talks between the federal government and the Taliban militants, who seized a counter-terrorism centre and took some people as hostages in Pakistan's restive Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province two days ago. The standoff began on Sunday (18) when an arrested militant, who was being…
