- Thursday, February 27, 2025
A GROUP of Tamil minority political parties in Sri Lanka has urged India to intervene and put pressure on president Gotabaya Rajapaksa to hold long-pending elections in the island-nation's nine provinces. The provincial elections have been postponed since 2018 due to a legal snag with attempted electoral reform that year.…
RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin would not have started the war in Ukraine if he was a woman, according to British prime minister Boris Johnson. "If Putin was a woman, which he obviously isn't, but if he were, I really don't think he would've embarked on a crazy, macho war of…
JOURNALISTS should not be jailed for “what they write, what they tweet and what they say” and it is important that people be allowed to express themselves freely without the threat of any harassment, a spokesperson for United Nations secretary general Antonio Guterres has said referring to the arrest of…
INDIAN road transport minister Nitin Gadkari, who is known for his innovative approach to work, has lashed out at select automakers accusing them of compromising on safety standards in India when compared to the same offering in other markets in the world. He expressed his disappointment after his ministry issued…
ALMOST a quarter of the world's population are exposed to significant flood risks, according to new research published Tuesday (28), which warned those in poorer countries were more vulnerable. Inundations from heavy rainfall and storm surges affect millions of people every year and cause billions of dollars of damage to…
INDIA held their nerve to beat Ireland by four runs as the world's top-ranked Twenty20 side survived a scare in Malahide on Tuesday. The tourists chalked up their second successive victory in the two-match T20 series but it was a closer call than they would have expected. India scored an…
PAKISTAN on Monday (27) alleged that one of the members of the five-nation BRICS grouping blocked its participation in a meeting which was hosted by China on the sidelines of the bloc’s summit last week. India, one of Pakistan’s arch-rivals, is a member of the bloc which also includes Brazil,…
IN a first since the outbreak of Covid-19 pandemic, Raj Aggarwal OBE, India’s honorary consul in Wales, recently led celebrations on the occasion of the International Yoga Day at Cardiff Castle. He was joined by several yoga enthusiasts on the occasion. Aggarwal, who organised the event, said, “It was a…
INVESTIGATION into the gruesome murder of a tailor in broad daylight in a busy market area in Udaipur in the north-western Indian state of Rajasthan which rocked the nation on Tuesday (28) has revealed that the two men arrested in connection with the incident has alleged links with Pakistan-based Sunni…
In what is considered a major transition in one of India’s prominent business families, Akash Ambani, the son of Mukesh Ambani, succeeded him as the chairman of Reliance Jio. The junior Ambani, a non-executive director at the telecom company, was appointed as the chairman of the board of directors. Ambani,…
