- Sunday, March 09, 2025
Activists, lawyers and politicians welcomed former Delhi University professor G N Saibaba's acquittal in a Maoist link case and rued that the wheelchair-bound human rights defender had to endure the "torture" of being in jail since 2014. The Bombay High Court on Friday (14) acquitted Saibaba and ordered his release…
The Paris Club creditor nations in September reached out to Asian economic giants China and India seeking to coordinate closely on debt talks related to the South Asian island nation of Sri Lanka, but is still awaiting a reply, Reuters reported citing a source with direct knowledge of the matter.…
Consumers in India are lapping up everything from cars, houses, and television sets to travel and jewellery this festive season that kicked off last month, as per early data, giving a boost to growth prospects despite economic gloom at other corners of the globe, Reuters reported. Online and offline sales…
The Indian ministry of external affairs (MEA) said on Friday (14) the high commission in Canberra is in touch with the local authorities over an incident of stabbing of an Indian student in Australia and expects action to be taken against the perpetrators. MEA spokesperson Arindam Bagchi said a suspect…
India's Border Security Force (BSF) troops shot down a drone that entered the country in the Gurdaspur sector of the northern state of Punjab from the Pakistan side of the International Border in the early hours of Friday (14). A senior BSF officer said that the drone was spotted at…
Months after Zulfiqar Ahmad Khan, a former chief operating officer of Mumbai-based Balaji Telefilms, went missing in Kenya, his family has urged the Indian government to intervene and ensure the 48-year-old man's safe return. Khan's family and friends came up with a press release that said, "It's been almost 80…
Russian airline Aeroflot's flight SU 232 on Thursday (13) received a bomb threat while flying to Delhi's Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport. "Our investigation is underway at the airport, all the passengers and their luggage are being checked and the SOPs (standard operating procedures) are followed, the aircraft is currently…
The main suspect who kidnapped and killed four members of an Indian-origin Sikh family, including a baby girl, in California, US, has entered a not guilty plea in court, authorities said. The Sikh family of four -- eight-month-old Aroohi Dheri; her 27-year-old mother Jasleen Kaur; her 36-year-old father Jasdeep Singh;…
The free trade agreement (FTA) negotiations with India are no longer working towards a Diwali deadline, UK trade secretary Kemi Badenoch has confirmed. During a visit to a Scotch whisky distillery on Thursday (13), the Cabinet minister in charge of the FTA negotiations at the department for international trade (DIT)…
A student from India has come under a brutal physical attack in Australia, where he is pursuing higher studies, last week and is currently admitted in a hospital in a critical condition. Shubham Garg, a 28-year-old doing PhD in the University of South Wales, Sydney, was stabbed as many as…
