- Monday, March 10, 2025
Britain's new prime minister Liz Truss on Tuesday (20) vowed billions more in financial and military aid to Ukraine as she kicked off her debut foreign trip at the UN General Assembly. Ahead of her first meeting with US President Joe Biden, Truss also conceded that a post-Brexit UK-US trade…
A new-look England side took the opening Twenty20 international by six wickets in Karachi on Tuesday (20), capping their return to Pakistan after 17 years with a memorable victory. Opener Alex Hales celebrated his return to the England team with a 40-ball 53 to anchor England's chase of a modest…
Celebrated Indian comedian-actor Raju Srivastava died on Wednesday (21) after over 40 days of hospitalisation here, said his brother Dipoo Srivastava. He was 58. Raju Srivastava suffered a heart attack on August 10 while working out at a hotel here. He was rushed to the All India Institute of Medical…
Indian prime minister Narendra Modi has lauded the people for contributing wholeheartedly to the PM CARES Fund as he chaired a meeting where it was discussed that the initiative has a larger vision on effectively responding to emergency and distress situations, his office said on Wednesday (21). Modi chaired a…
Former Indian National Congress president Rahul Gandhi along with party leaders resumed the 'Bharat Jodo Yatra' (United India movement) from Kochi in the southern state of Kerala as the march entered its 14th day on Wednesday (21). This happened while the grand-old party continued with its preparation to pick a…
Traffic congestion in Bengaluru, the information technology (IT) capital in India, is not notoriously legendary. A few weeks ago, a doctor was found running for many kilometres to do a critical surgery after his vehicle got stuck in a horrible traffic snarl. There are millions of such stories that do…
Indian prime minister Narendra Modi has been hailed at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) for his message to Russian president Vladimir Putin over the Ukraine war, by the US and France at the UNGA meeting in New York. On the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit in Samarkand,…
On Monday (19), Kallol Bhattacharjee, a journalist and author who tweets by the handle @janusmyth, made a post on Twitter pertaining to the violence in Leicester in eastern England which turned out to be controversial in no time. Bhattacharjee's tweet was actually in response to the Indian high commission's (in…
Russian president Vladimir Putin on Wednesday (21) announced a partial mobilisation of the military in Russia after facing major setbacks in Moscow's ongoing war in Ukraine. In a televised speech, the 69-year-old leader said, “Only citizens who are currently in the reserve and, above all, those who served in the…
Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday (20) once again raked up the Kashmir issue during his address to world leaders at the high-level UN General Assembly session in New York City. "India and Pakistan, after having established their sovereignty and independence 75 years ago, they still haven't established peace…
