- Thursday, February 27, 2025
FORMER Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan has asked his country's government led by Shehbaz Sharif to sever ties with India and boycott its products in connection with the controversial remarks that a leader of the country's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) made against Prophet Muhammad. Speaking at a lawyers' convention…
IT seems bad times are not yet over for British prime minister Boris Johnson. After narrowly surviving a no-confidence vote scare in his own party, the Conservative leader has faced flak from a transgender cyclist. Emily Bridges, a 21-year-old athlete from Wales made the headlines in March this year when…
A 16-YEAR-OLD boy shot dead his mother after she debarred him from playing an online video game. The police confirmed the incident which happened in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. The juvenile was addicted to playing the game. "The police reached the spot after getting information about the…
BRITAIN'S governing Conservative Party backbenchers are mulling over changing party rules to allow another confidence vote against prime minister Boris Johnson within six months. Currently, the 1922 Committee of Tory MPs does not allow such a vote against the party leader within a year of surviving one. Senior Conservative backbencher…
INDIAN intelligence agencies are on high alert after the Al Qaeda in Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) warned of suicide bombings in various cities and states of the country to avenge the insult to Prophet Muhammad. In a letter issued on Monday (6), the AQIS said it would carry out the attacks…
INDIA and Vietnam on Wednesday (8) inked a vision document to further broad-base the "scope and scale" of defence cooperation and sealed a mutual logistics support pact, in reflection of a major upswing in their strategic ties amid common concerns over China's increasing muscle-flexing in the South China Sea region.…
INDIA'S central bank on Wednesday (8) hiked rates for a second time in as many months, as Asia's third-largest economy reels from galloping inflation in the wake of the Ukraine war. The Reserve Bank of India raised its key repo rate by 50 basis points to 4.90 percent, a month…
AT a time when the Gulf nations have been strongly condemning India over controversial remarks made by a leader of prime minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) allegedly against the Prophet Muhammad, questions are also being raised as to why the same set of nations are silent over China's…
INDIA is looking forward to joining the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG), overcoming the political impediments that are against global interest, the country's external affairs minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar said on Tuesday (7). He made the remarks in an address to the foreign diplomatic corps based in India during an event hosted…
THE Indian ministry of civil aviation on Tuesday (7) announced the country's first National Aero Sports Policy (NSAP, 2022) with an aim to see India as one of the top aerial sporting nations by 2030. The NSAP, as of now will cover air sports like aerobatics, aeromodelling, and model rocketry,…
