- Sunday, March 09, 2025
India voted to reject Russia's demand for a secret ballot in the UN General Assembly on a draft resolution to condemn Moscow's “illegal” annexation of four regions of Ukraine, with New Delhi favouring a public vote on the text along with over 100 other nations. The 193-member UN General Assembly…
Preet Kaur Gill, a British Sikh member of British parliament for the Opposition Labour Party, has written to UK ministers calling for “urgent action” over a spike in anti-Sikh hate crimes in the country. In her role as Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on British Sikhs, Gill…
India are under pressure to win their first global title since 2013 at the Twenty20 World Cup in Australia but they must do so without injured pace bowler Jasprit Bumrah. Rohit Sharma's team open their campaign against arch-rivals Pakistan on October 23 in Melbourne in a hotly anticipated clash which…
Ukraine denounced Russia as a "terrorist state" at an urgent United Nations General Assembly meeting Monday (10) following its neighbor's latest attacks, as Western powers sought to underscore Moscow's isolation. The UN called the debate to discuss Russia's declared annexation of four partly occupied Ukrainian regions, but the debate was…
India's largest software exporter Tata Consultancy Services on Monday (10) shrugged off global economic turmoil to report a record profit for any quarter, with figures that beat analyst estimates. TCS is India's second-most-valuable company by market capitalisation and earns more than 80 percent of its revenues from Western markets. It…
An Indian university has postponed its annual tech festival and urged students to stay indoors after dark because of a tiger on the prowl around campus, an official and local reports said Monday. The endangered big cat has already killed two stray cows, and about 50 forest department officials have…
India's Bollywood film industry, long part of the cultural fabric of the movie-mad country of 1.4 billion people, is facing its biggest-ever crisis as streaming services and non-Hindi language rivals steal its sparkle. The South Asian giant churns out on average around 1,600 films each year, more than any other…
Indian prime minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday (11) accused the opposition Indian National Congress of outsourcing the contract of abusing him. Addressing a rally in Jamkandorna town of Rajkot district in Gujarat ahead of the state assembly elections due in December, Modi warned workers and supporters of his Bharatiya Janata…
Indian prime minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday (11) greeted Indian actor Amitabh Bachchan as he turned 80. In a tweet, the prime minister said Bachchan is "one of India's most remarkable film personalities". "A very happy 80th birthday to Amitabh Bachchan Ji. He is one of India's most remarkable film…
India's 1983 World Cup winning hero Roger Binny is set to become the new BCCI President as incumbent Sourav Ganguly, who held the position for three years, will make way for him at the board's annual general meeting (AGM) in Mumbai on October 18. After hectic parleys and back-channel discussions…
