- Sunday, March 09, 2025
Justice Dhananjaya Yeshwant Chandrachud was on Monday (17) appointed as India's 50th chief justice, the country's law minister Kiren Rijiju said. The judge, who was appointed by Indian president Droupadi Mumru, will take oath on November 9, a day after incumbent chief justice of India Uday Umesh Lalit, who took…
The representation of women on boards of companies in India during the last decade rose to 18 per cent in 2022 but the country is far behind France, Sweden, the US and the UK, according to a report. During 2013 till 2022, India made significant and rapid progress in increasing…
The use by Russia of Iranian drones in its war against Ukraine makes clear the weaknesses of its domestic industry and Tehran's growing claim on the market for unmanned aircraft, experts say. Washington believes Iran has delivered hundreds of drones, which Ukrainian officials say are now being used in strikes…
The Narendra Modi government has approved Rs 17.2 crore (£1.84 billion) as the second installment of its share to the north-eastern state of Nagaland for the State Disaster Response Fund (SDRF) for this fiscal to undertake relief measures in the wake of landslides and floods in 2022. According to a…
Britain's new chancellor of the exchequer Jeremy Hunt on Monday (17) reversed almost all of prime minister Liz Truss's tax cuts announced in the mini-budget last month and scaled back the expensive energy bills support in an emergency fiscal statement to reassure the jittery financial markets. Hunt's emergency financial statement…
Indian prime minister Narendra Modi is known for spending special occasions with the armed forces. This Diwali, there will be no exception as Modi will be among the Indian soldiers as he has been doing for the last eight years. Days before the festival of light, the prime minister will…
Police in India have launched a probe after a viral video showed men entering a women's college in Delhi, the national capital, by scaling the institute's walls. The cops came into the picture following a horrific incident during an event on October 14 which was organised by students of the…
Teenage Indian grandmaster D Gukesh on Monday (17) stunned Magnus Carlsen in the ninth round of the preliminary phase of Aimchess Rapid online chess tournament, becoming the youngest to beat the world champion. The 16-year-old from Chennai beat the world No.1 with white pieces to move up to third position…
Four persons were killed in Sultanpur in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh on Friday (14) when the BMW they were riding on rammed into a giant container. What has made the tragedy even more discussed is that a video of the passengers, all men, speeding the vehicle went viral…
Indian defence minister Rajnath Singh on Monday (17) said it has been seen in the last two decades that the gap between the internal and external security is reducing and a country's independent media, judiciary, NGOs and dynamic democracy can be misused to destroy its security. Addressing the second convocation…
