- Thursday, February 27, 2025
TEN people were killed and 13 others injured after a four-storey building collapsed in the Kurla area of Mumbai around midnight, civic officials said on Tuesday (28). A wing of the building located in Naik Nagar society collapsed while another wing was evacuated as it too is dilapidated, said officials…
WHILE the political drama in the western Indian state of Maharashtra refuses to die down, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the single-largest party in the state assembly but which is in the opposition, thanks to its traditional ally Shiv Sena dumping it to go with the Nationalist Congress Party and…
NOVAK Djokovic became the first player to win 80 matches at all four Grand Slams as he made a successful start to his Wimbledon title defence on Monday while teenage star Carlos Alcaraz battled over five sets to make the second round. Six-time champion and top seed Djokovic saw off…
ZAMBIA should stop the search for a fresh investor in Konkola Copper Mines (KCM) until litigation with Vedanta Resources is settled, the Indian mining firm on Tuesday (28) said. According to a Reuters report, The African nation's previous government put KCM in the hands of a liquidator in May 2019,…
INDIAN flags fluttering over a sea of khaki army tents will form the backdrop to a mass pilgrimage starting this week in Kashmir that Delhi's Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government hopes will reinforce its claims to the blood-soaked territory. The pilgrimage, which remained suspended for two years due…
SHAPOORJI Pallonji Group's head Pallonji Mistry passed away at his residence in Mumbai in the western Indian state of Maharashtra, company officials said on Tuesday (28). He died mid-sleep on the intervening night of Monday and Tuesday, the officials added. Mistry, the largest individual shareholder in the Tata Group with…
INDIAN prime minister Narendra Modi shares a rapport with most or all of the frontline world leaders and visuals coming from the G7 summit which just got concluded in Schloss Elmau in Germany proved it yet again. The Indian prime minister, who attended the summit at the invitation of the…
INDIAN prime minister Narendra Modi, who recently visited Germany to attend the G7 Summit, presented its leaders with various gifts displaying India's rich art and crafts, particularly, those related to Uttar Pradesh's one district one product scheme. His gifts included a hand-knotted carpet, carved matka, itr bottles, tea set, brooch…
MAYANK Agarwal has been added to India's squad for the rescheduled fifth Test against England as cover for captain Rohit Sharma who has Covid-19, the India cricket board said Monday (27). The right-handed top-order batsman, 31, has left for England and will link up with the squad in Birmingham, the…
HERE are some news in brief from and related to India on Tuesday, June 27, 2022: India fact-checking website Alt News co-founder Mohammed Zubair arrested: Mohammed Zubair, a journalist and one of the founders of Indian fact-checking website Alt News, was arrested by the Delhi Police on Monday on charges…
