- Thursday, February 27, 2025
PARENTS of six girl students from the Muslim community in the southern Indian state of Karnataka have filed a complaint with the police alleging the personal details of their daughters were shared on social media. The incident has happened amid the snowballing controversy over wearing hijab in some schools and…
TEAM India turned the wheel around fast after their shocking 0-3 loss in the one-day international series in South Africa last month as they handed the West Indies a similar humiliation at home by winning the third and final match of the three-game series by 96 runs on Friday (11).…
INDIA'S external affairs minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar on Friday (11) gifted his Australian counterpart Marise Payne a cricket bat signed by ace India cricketer Virat Kohli during a visit to the iconic Melbourne Cricket Ground after he went to the island-nation to take part in the fourth Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (Quad)…
THE row over hijab (headscarves worn by Muslim women) in the southern Indian state of Karnataka has caused an uproar in Pakistan where women protested on Thursday (10) denouncing the ban on the clothing in several schools and colleges. About a hundred women came out to the streets in the…
INDIAN soft drinks brand Thums Up has become a billion-dollar brand in 2021, global soft drinks major The Coca-Cola Company, which owns the brand, has said. “Our local Thums Up brand became a USD one billion (736 million) brand in India, driven by focused marketing and execution plans,” James Quincey,…
THE member-states of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue or Quad, an informal grouping comprising India, the US, Australia and Japan, on Friday (11) pledged to deepen their cooperation to ensure that the Indo-Pacific region was free from “coercion” in what many took as a thinly veiled swipe at China’s growing economic…
INDIA batter Jemimah Rodrigues has decided to play in a hockey tournament after she failed to get selected in the Indian squad for the World Cup in New Zealand scheduled next month. The 21-year-old, who made her international debut in 2018, is known to possess good dribbling skills in hockey…
THE changing India-US relationship has been a very defining development in this century, India's external affairs minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar said on Friday (11) during bilateral talks with US secretary of state Antony Blinken on the sidelines of Quad (Quadrilateral Security Dialogue) foreign ministers' meeting. "Quad, we have progressed a lot…
THE Supreme Court of India on Thursday (10) gave a final opportunity to fugitive businessman Vijay Mallya, accused in a bank-loan default case of over Rs 9,000 crore (£878 million) involving his defunct Kingfisher Airlines, to appear before it personally or through his lawyer in a contempt case where he…
A SPECIAL National Investigation Agency (NIA) court in the Indian state of Bihar on Wednesday (9) convicted a member of Bangladeshi terror outfit Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) in connection with serial explosion at the Mahabodhi Temple Complex in Bodh Gaya, a popular tourist spot, in 2018. Jahidul Islam was convicted under…
