- Friday, March 07, 2025
Former Indian National Congress president Rahul Gandhi hoped on Friday (28) that social media platform Twitter would now act against hate speech, check facts more robustly and not stifle the voice of the opposition in India, soon after billionaire Elon Musk took it over and fired four of its top…
Terming money the lifeblood of terrorism, India's external affairs minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar on Friday (28) highlighted how terrorists continue to get financial resources to maintain their organisational functions and said the reality that terrorism continues to exist and expand points to an underlying truth. Ahead of the 14th anniversary of…
In a shocking revelation, the National Human Rights Commission of India has said that young girls are being sold in the north-western state of Rajasthan as "repayment" for loans their parents cannot afford. According to a report by The Guardian, the human rights body has issued a notice to the…
Paul Pelosi, the husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, was "violently assaulted" after a break-in at the couple's California home early on Friday (28), her office said in a statement. "The assailant is in custody and the motivation for the attack is under investigation," the statement said. "Mr. Pelosi was…
The western Indian state of Maharashtra has seen yet another political controversy erupting after a lucrative project worth Rs 22,000 crore (£2.31 billion) went to neighbouring Gujarat. Aaditya Thackeray, a former minister of the state from the Uddhav Thackeray faction of Shiv Sena slammed the current government led by chief…
Real gross domestic product (GDP) in the US moved back to positive territory after two consecutive quarters of degrowth. The country’s economy grew at an annual rate of 2.6 per cent in the third quarter of 2022 (July-September), taking the US out of a technical recession. A technical recession is…
Raghuram Rajan, former governor of India's central bank -- the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) -- has called the country's employment situation "really alarming" and said the government must focus on promoting labour-intensive jobs such as those in the services sector, Moneycontrol reported. Speaking in a conversation with students of…
A man, one of the six accused in the explosion case in Coimbatore in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, confessed during interrogation that he met two men in a Kerala prison who had links with an IS (Islamic Group) outfit involved in the 2019 Easter bombings in Sri…
Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi Corp has shut down its financial services business in India, four years after its launch, a Xiaomi India spokesperson said on Friday (28). "As part of the annual strategic assessment activity and as a response to enhanced focus on our core business services, we closed the…
Emphasising on the need to create awareness against fake news, Indian prime minister Narendra Modi on Friday (28) said that social media cannot be underestimated and that a small piece of fake news generated by it can create chaos. He also appealed for people to check facts before sharing messages…
