- Thursday, February 27, 2025
HERE are top news in brief from India on Monday, June 20, 2022: Enforcement Directorate (ED) questions Rahul Gandhi in National Herald corruption case for the fourth day: Indian National Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday (20) appeared before the ED for the fourth day of questioning in the National…
AT a time when India’s opposition Indian National Congress party is protesting over the Enforcement Directorate summoning its leader Rahul Gandhi in connection with a money-laundering case, a leader of the grand-old party sparked a major controversy with a remark on prime minister Narendra Modi. Former central minister Subodh Kant…
LEADERS of the member states of the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) are set to meet at the 14th summit of the grouping in Beijing on June 23. All of them were looking forward to the occasion, including South African president Cyril Ramaphosa, who said the five-nation bloc…
CHINA on Monday (20) unveiled a Global Development Report ahead of the upcoming summit of the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) grouping, the country’s Center for International Knowledge on Development, said, adding that the report aims at building a global community of development. In a statement, the statement…
THE day could have turned out in a disastrous one for nearly 200 passengers on board a flight from Patna in the eastern Indian state of Bihar to national capital New Delhi but for Captain Monica Khanna who kept her cool to land the aircraft safely and ensured that not…
INDIAN prime minister Narendra Modi on Monday (20) spoke on the controversial ‘Agnipath’ scheme for the first time but he did not take its name. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader, who is currently touring the southern Indian state of Karnataka which is ruled by his party, attended a public…
IN a newly renovated white building in a South African township about 20 children in judogi and others in school uniforms tumble around on a tatami under the watchful eye of a coach. They are from a nearby primary school and regularly gather for judo classes here in Alexandra township,…
THE chiefs of the Indian Army, Navy and Air Force are scheduled to separately meet Indian prime minister Narendra Modi on June 21 and would brief him on the 'Agnipath' recruitment scheme. The services chiefs will meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi tomorrow separately and are likely to brief him on…
WITH India’s Narendra Modi government refusing to roll back its ‘Agnipath’ military recruitment scheme, some protesting organisations called a nationwide strike across India on Monday (20). The country has seen massive protests and violence over the week after the scheme was unveiled on June 14. The railways continued to take…
FOR Sawinder Singh, Kabul no longer felt home after the Taliban took over the Afghanistan capital last year. He ran a small 'paan' shop there, lived in a gurudwara, but always wanted to come to Delhi where his family lives. He had applied for an e-visa. It was approved on…
