• Monday, March 10, 2025

In poll-bound Gujarat, Arvind Kejriwal is greeted with ‘Modi, Modi’…

He has been eyeing power in Gujarat, the home state of Indian prime minister Narendra Modi, for a while now. Delhi chief minister and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Arvind Kejriwal has also been making frequent trips to the western state in the run-up to the assembly elections. On Tuesday…

Was Punjab CM drunk on plane in Frankfurt? This is…

Indian aviation minister Jyotiraditya Scindia on Tuesday (20) said he will look into the allegations that Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Mann was thrown out from a Delhi-bound flight at the Frankfurt airport in Germany as he was "drunk". The minister asserted that it was important to verify the facts. Sukhbir…

Sundar Pichai meets Indian envoy to US, discusses Google’s India…

Google CEO Sundar Pichai has held discussions with the Indian ambassador in the US, Taranjit Singh Sandhu, about the technology giant's activities in India, particularly its aggressive push towards digitisation, as he became the first top Indian-American tech business leader to visit the country's embassy in Washington. “Thank you” Ambassador…

UK royal family releases unseen photograph of Queen Elizabeth II…

The UK's royal family has released a previously unseen photograph of Queen Elizabeth II (1926-2022) after she was laid to rest in a private burial. The Queen, Britain's longest-reigning monarch, was laid to rest alongside her late husband Prince Philip in a private burial at St George's Chapel on Monday…

India women eye 1st series victory in England since 1999;…

A confident Indian team will back itself to seal its first series victory in England since 1999 with another win over the hosts in the second women's ODI here on Wednesday (21). Having endured a woeful 1-2 defeat in the T20I series, the Harmanpreet Kaur-led Indian side raised its standards…

Singapore hosts exhibition to celebrate 75 years of Indian art

An exhibition featuring 85 artists and over 170 artworks from different parts of India has been organised in Singapore to showcase the evolution of the Indian art styles as part of celebrations to mark the 75 years of Independence. The exhibition titled '75 Years of Indian Art #CanvasToNFTs' was opened…

Modi’s cheetah project faces challenge as Rajasthan community protests feeding…

It was only last weekend that India celebrated the return of the locally extinct cheetahs, the world's fastest animal, to its territory as eight of them were transported from Namibia. None other than prime minister Narendra Modi released the big cats in Kuno National Park (KNP) in the central state…

Why Modi’s BJP is protesting in Rajasthan over a disease

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), India's right-wing Hindu party which rules the country but is in the opposition in the north-western state of Rajasthan, on Tuesday (20) staged a massive protest in state capital Jaipur over the Lumpy Skin Disease (LSD) that has killed more than 57,000 cattle and affected…

International Cricket Council has permanently banned this action by fielding…

A temporary ban on using saliva to shine cricket balls was on Tuesday (20) made permanent by the International Cricket Council. And the running out of the non-striker will no longer be classed under "unfair play" after a raft of rule changes from October 1 were endorsed by a meeting…

Leicester violence: Half of those arrested came from outside county,…

While situation in Leicester in the UK remained tense over the violence between Hindu and Muslim communities over the weekend, the Guardian reported that almost half of the 18 people that have been arrested came from outside the county. Of eight people who were found to be outsiders, five came…