- Monday, March 10, 2025
India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will organise "unity in diversity" festivals in all districts as part of its fortnight-long "seva" campaign to mark prime minister Narendra Modi's birthday on September 17. Modi will turn 72 this month. The campaign will begin on Modi's birthday and conclude on October 2,…
Menstruation is still a topic which is less discussed in public in several parts of India but recently, a unique initiative was undertaken to the southern state of Kerala, one of the country's most educated, to normalise talks around it. According to a report in BBC, organisers of the initiative…
India has been known to be a close friend of Russia for decades now and the current times, when Moscow has faced a backlash from the western world over its adventures in Ukraine, saw relations between the two old allies turning warmer, particularly over oil diplomacy. But a poll taken…
The opposition Indian National Congress on Thursday (1) claimed that the Narendra Modi government is issuing notices to farmers deemed ineligible under the PM-KISAN scheme to take back the money disbursed to them, and demanded the recovery from "poor annadaatas" (food providers) be immediately stopped. It said that while the…
Calls for opening trade routes with India are gaining momentum in Pakistan as prices of vegetables and fruits have spiked due to devastating floods that have destroyed thousands of acres of crops across the country. As the Shehbaz Sharif government has yet to take a decision on the import of…
Indian prime minister Narendra Modi on Thursday (1) condoled the demise of former Soviet leader Mikhail S Gorbachev, and said he was one of the leading statesmen of the 20th century who left an indelible mark on the course of history. Gorbachev died at a hospital in Moscow on Tuesday…
Ever since Russia invaded Ukraine, India's foreign policy conduct has faced a challenge. While New Delhi has not condemned Moscow's aggression and engaged in oil diplomacy with it, it has also provided humanitarian aid to Kyiv, including medicine. But it seems Ukraine is not yet convinced about India's role in…
The bulldozer has emerged as a new political symbol in India but recently, the presence of the machine at an India Day Parade in a couple of towns in New Jersey, US, has sparked a controversy resulting in the Indian Business Association (IBA) issuing an apology for bringing it to…
Premsai Singh Tekam, the school education minister of the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh, has courted controversy by reciting lines of Harivansh Rai Bachchan's legendary book 'Madhushala' at a de-addiction programme, and going on to say that liquor unites people but must be consumed in a controlled manner. Post the…
Just days after an Mexican-American woman was arrested after racially abusing a few Indian-American women in Texas, a similar incident has been reported again from the US and this time, it was an Indian-American man who was found being racially abused by a compatriot in the state of California. On…
