• Monday, March 10, 2025

Australia Open 2022 fiasco extended Novak Djokovic’s career by 5-6…

Many in the tennis fraternity feel he might end up with a few crowns less by missing some major tournaments over his vaccination status but Novak Djokovic's uncle Goran Djokovic feels it would be the opposite. The Yugoslavia-born entrepreneur spoke recently over the Australian Open fiasco earlier this year and…

SCO summit 2022: The big platform featuring Modi, Xi Jinping,…

International affairs experts will be keeping a close watch on the the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit kicking off in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, on Thursday (15) as some of the frontline world leaders, including Indian prime minister Narendra Modi, Chinese president Xi Jinping, and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin will be…

Ahead of SCO summit in Uzbekistan, India & China make…

India and China observed a significant development in their disturbed border affairs on Tuesday (13) ahead of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit (September 15-16) kicking off in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, by completing disengagement at Patrolling Point (PP) 15 in the Gogra-Hot Springs of eastern Ladakh region in a phased and…

India’s JSW Steel to invest over £1b to slash carbon…

  India's JSW Steel on Tuesday (13) said it will collaborate with Germany's SMS group and invest 100 billion Indian rupees ($1.26 billion/ £1.08 billion) to cut down carbon emissions at its plants. SMS group will provide its technology experts, design, engineering consultancy and commissioning to execute various projects for…

As inflation pinches, Indian states announce relief measures worth £11b…

At least 10 Indian states have announced over 1 trillion rupees ($12.6 billion/£10.8 billion), mainly in cash transfers and electricity subsidies, for households to combat inflation, according to government officials. Local politicians are worried about the impact of sharp increase in prices on household essentials. For example, food inflation, which…

‘Don’t touch my body, I am a male’, Indian politician…

The eastern Indian state of West Bengal witnessed an ugly political pitch battle with the state's opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) conducting a mission to march to the secretariat of the Trinamool Congress (TMC) government of chief minister Mamata Banerjee in state capital Kolkata over alleged corruption. As the state…

Odisha: Man marries transgender woman with wife’s consent; law expert…

A man in his 30s has married a transwoman at a temple in Narla in the Kalahandi district of the eastern Indian state of Odisha and guess what? His current wife has given her consent and agreed to stay with the transwoman in the same house. According to a report…

No respite! Kerala scribe Siddique Kappan, granted bail by India’s…

Kerala-based journalist Siddique Kappan, who was recently granted bail by the Supreme Court, will continue to remain in a jail here as a case being probed by the Enforcement Directorate against him is still pending, officials of the prison department said. A court here on Monday issued the release order…

‘BJP trying to make Sonia Gandhi prime minister after Modi’,…

In a bizarre claim, Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday (13) said in Gujarat that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is "trying to make Sonia Gandhi the prime minister after Narendra Modi". The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) convener, who has been making frequent visits to the western state which…

PETA India asks Modi government to crack down on ‘illegal…

PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) India has written to the Indian government to close down "illegal" pet shops, breeders, and cracking down on "illegal dogfights" held in many parts of the nation. PETA made the appeal in a letter to animal husbandry minister Parshottam Rupala, and Animal…