- Sunday, March 09, 2025
Indian prime minister Narendra Modi on Monday (10) said 'Urban Naxals' were trying to gain entry into the western state of Gujarat by changing their appearance, but the state will destroy them. He was speaking after laying the foundation stone of the country's first bulk drug park in Gujarat's Bharuch…
For generations Paban Baroi's family guarded a temple to Shiva, the Hindu god of destruction, until Bangladesh's mighty Padma river wreaked havoc of its own, wiping out the shrine, their home, and 200 other houses in their village. The 70-year-old and his neighbours are among thousands in the country who…
India has the world's highest rate of women pilots, but when Zoya Agarwal said she dreamed of conquering the skies, her mother cried and told her to wait for a "suitable boy" to marry instead. Agarwal has enjoyed an illustrious career since gaining her wings in 2004, including her inauguration…
It was an unusual creature: a crocodile that only consumed rice and jaggery offerings at a temple. The devotees at Sri Ananthapadmanabha Swamy Temple in Kasaragod in the southern Indian state of Kerala looked up to it with great curiosity. But all that became a part of history on Sunday…
With Indian prime minister Narendra Modi making frequent visits to his home state Gujarat which is due to go to polls in December and inaugurating or dedicating a series of projects, the opposition has decided to take him on for allegedly showering his own state with blessings. KT Rama Rao,…
Samajwadi Party founder Mulayam Singh Yadav, a veteran of many political battles and a pivot for opposition politics for decades, never went off the radar – even when he was ailing. Trained famously as a wrestler, the 82-year-old SP patriarch, who died Monday after prolonged illness at a Gurugram hospital,…
Four ministers in Liz Truss's government on Sunday (9) urged Conservative colleagues to back the embattled UK prime minister following a punishing week that exposed deep divisions within the party. Interior minister Suella Braverman, former finance minister Nadhim Zahawi, Commons leader Penny Mordaunt and environment minister Ranil Jayawardena all wrote…
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky said there were dead and wounded in blasts that rocked cities across Ukraine on Monday (10) and accused Russia of trying to wipe his country "off the face of the earth." "They are trying to destroy us and wipe us off the face of the earth...destroy…
They were among India's most discussed political rivals but Mayawati, supremo of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), on Monday (10) put the intense enmity behind to condole the death of Mulayam Singh Yadav, the founder of the Samajwadi Party (SP). The BSP-SP fight has remained a high point of Uttar…
Mulayam Singh Yadav, a former chief minister of the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh and founder of the Samajwadi Party (SP), passed away in Gurugram, Haryana, early on Monday (10). He was 82. Singh, who was popularly called "Netaji", was shifted to the intensive care unit (ICU) at Gurugram's…
