- Tuesday, March 11, 2025
INDIA'S opposition vice presidential candidate Margaret Alva has alleged that politicians’ calls are being monitored by the ”Big Brother”, in an apparent reference to the government. Alva had earlier said she has been unable to make or receive calls after she spoke to some ”friends in the BJP”. Since then,…
THE death toll due to the consumption of spurious liquor in Botad district of the western Indian state of Gujarat has gone up to 28, a senior police official said on Tuesday (26). A primary probe has revealed that some small-time bootleggers, including a woman, from different villages in Botad…
ON Tuesday (26), India remained witness to its biggest-ever spectrum auction for 72 GHz (gigahertz) of 5G airwaves worth Rs 4.3 lakh crore (£45 billion). Telecom companies that are associated with some of the biggest names of India Inc. were involved in the bid, including Reliance Jio of Mukesh Ambani,…
SOUTH AFRICA'S top prosecutor has cautioned that the process to extradite two of the three India-born Gupta brothers from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for their alleged role in a high-profile corruption scandal could take several months. The head of the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA), Shamila Batohi joined justice and…
THERE was no clear winner between former UK chancellor Rishi Sunak and foreign secretary Liz Truss on Tuesday (26) after the country's prime ministerial candidates went head-to-head in their first television debate as finalists and clashed fiercely on their economic policies and tax plans. A snap Opinium poll of who…
INDIAN opposition leader Rahul Gandhi was on Tuesday (26) detained by the law-keepers after he led a street protest against the Narendra Modi government over various issues and sat on a road in the heart of New Delhi while his mother Sonia Gandhi, the president of the Indian National Congress,…
IN a news that would leave India's sports lovers with a broken heart, ace javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra is all set to miss the upcoming Commonwealth Games 2022 because of an injury concern. He was one of the South Asian nation's brightest medal hopefuls at the sporting event which will…
DAYS after all-weather friends China and Pakistan invited any country joining the multi-billion dollar China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) for "mutual beneficial cooperation", India called the project an "inherently illegal, illegitimate, and unacceptable" endeavour and warned that any country participating in it would mean infringing India's geographic sovereignty. Arindam Bagchi, the…
BRITAIN'S two prime ministerial contenders clashed fiercely over tax, China and character on Monday night in their first head-to-head televised debate, as Rishi Sunak seeks to peg back the frontrunner Liz Truss. The primetime debate kicked off a crucial 12-day period featuring three such live TV duels and four husting…
TOP Indian leaders on Tuesday (26) paid tributes to the country's soldiers who fought the 1999 war with neighbour Pakistan on the occasion of Kargil Vijay Diwas (Kargil Victory Day). Tuesday marked the 23rd anniversary of India's victory in the war over its arch-rival. President Droupadi Murmu, who took oath…
