- Thursday, February 27, 2025
IN a significant initiative, a resolution on multilingualism adopted in the UN General Assembly on Friday mentions the Hindi language for the first time, with India emphasising that it is imperative that the United Nations embraces multilingualism in a true sense. The resolution adopted in the 193-member UN General Assembly,…
IN India, politics can be extremely entertaining. On Friday (10), it was proved again and this time, a lawmaker from the southern state of Karnataka was the man behind it. K Srinivasa Gowda, a legislator from the Janata Dal (Secular), one of the state’s major political parties, said he voted…
INDIA on Friday (10) remained on the US treasury department's currency “Monitoring List” of major trading partners as Washington placed India along with 11 other major economies that merit close attention to their currency practices and macroeconomic policies. The countries are China, Japan, South Korea, Germany, Italy, India, Malaysia, Singapore,…
FORMER Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf, who has been at a hospital in the United Arab Emirates for three weeks, is at a stage where “recovery is not possible and organs are malfunctioning”, his family announced on his Twitter handle on Friday (10). “He is not on the ventilator. Has been…
THE row caused by a now suspended leader of India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) by making controversial remarks on Prophet Muhammad seems to have created differences within the party. And it is not about the remarks made by Nupur Sharma, a former spokesperson of the saffron party. Veteran leader…
THE ongoing row over the controversial remarks that a now suspended member of India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) might now affect the sporting world. According to one report, football fans from India who are keen to visit Qatar where the Fifa World Cup will be played later this year,…
JUST when India was busy handling the diplomatic rows that the remarks made by a now-suspended member of the country’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) caused, more trouble started at home as massive protests erupted across the nation over the issue on Friday (10). In Delhi, demonstrations took place outside…
Indian defence minister Rajnath Singh on Friday (10) handed over a "gift" of USD 1 million (£80,284) to a Vietnamese Air Force training institute for a language and IT laboratory on the final day of his three-day visit to Vietnam. The defence minister also visited the Telecommunications University in Nha…
WHILE legal experts believe the government of South Africa will do its best to bring the Gupta brothers, accused of fraud, and money-laundering, from the United Arab Emirates where they were recently arrested, minister in the African nation’s presidency Mondli Gungubele is keeping his fingers crossed. According to a report…
RASSIE van der Dussen said the experience of South African players in the IPL helped them defeat India by seven wickets in the first Twenty20 international on Thursday. Van der Dussen (75) and David Miller (64) put on 131 for the fourth wicket to drive the team's chase of 212…
