• Tuesday, March 11, 2025

Two Indians among migrants who escaped from abandoned truck at…

TWO Indians were found among at least 94 migrants who escaped from a truck abandoned near the Mexico-US border after the driver of the vehicle fled ahead of a checkpoint, BBC reported. The incident took place a month after more than 50 people died in similar situations in the US.…

Commonwealth Games 2022: India men, women have flying starts in…

BOTH India's men's and women's table tennis teams on Friday (29) started off their campaigns at the Commonwealth Games 2022 in Birmingham, the UK, with a bang, defeating their respective opponents in the groups by an identical margin of 3-0. In the women's section, India defeated South Africa while the…

EXPLAINED: Why Karnataka, one of India’s progressive states, is witnessing…

THE southern Indian state of Karnataka is witnessing a flare-up of communal tension in the wake of murder of three youths in the coastal district of Dakshina Kannada. These were preceded by the row over wearing hijab by girls from the minority Muslim community, call for boycotting Muslim traders and…

‘A warm-hearted, caring human being’: Ratan Tata remembers JRD Tata…

RATAN Tata, the chairman of Tata Trusts, on Friday (29) fondly remembered JRD Tata, the late industrialist of the conglomerate Tata Group and his uncle, on his 118th birth anniversary with a post on social media. In his post, Ratan Tata, 84, recalled JRD Tata as a warm and caring…

Who’s UK’s No.1 threat? After Sunak says it’s China, Russia…

AT a time when the prime ministerial race for the UK has seen nations such as China and Russia becoming a part of it and Rishi Sunak, one of the contenders calling Beijing the UK's "largest threat", Russian ambassador to London Andrey Kelin said during a Rossiya-24 TV broadcast on…

WATCH South Indian tradition: Bride and groom, who died 30…

WHEN Hamlet said in the play that "There are more things in heaven and Earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy", there must have been some element of truth in it. And recent news from the southern Indian state of Karnataka gave more credence to the statement, so…

Telangana: 4 civic workers suspended for not attending minister’s birthday…

IN an incident which has earned the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) government of the southern Indian state of Telangana wide criticism, four civic body workers of the state's Bellampally Municipal Commission were given suspension letters for not showing up at a party given in the honour of municipal minister KT…

Frequent MiG-21 crashes: India to phase out entire fleet by…

IN the wake of the recent crashes involving its combat aircraft belonging to the Soviet era, The Indian Air Force (IAF) is now set to retire one more squadron of the MiG-21 Bison aircraft by September 30. On Thursday (28), a MiG-21 Type 69 Trainer aircraft crashed in Barmer in…

Rishi Sunak admits he is losing against Liz Truss but…

BRITISH prime ministerial candidate Rishi Sunak has admitted that he was the underdog in the race with Liz Truss to become the next occupant of 10 Downing but vowed that he would not give up without a fight. The 42-year-old leader of South Asian origin has also said that his…

After Kejriwal, Rahul Gandhi steps in: How Gujarat hooch tragedy…

WITH a few months left for the next assembly elections in Gujarat, the recent hooch tragedy in the state in which more than 40 people lost their lives has started snowballing into a major political issue. On Friday (29), Indian National Congress leader Rahul Gandhi expressed concern over the business…