- Wednesday, February 26, 2025
AT a time when discussion is on in India over raising the minimum marriage age of girls from 18 to 21 years, the Odisha State Commission for Protection of Child Rights (OSCPCR) has expressed concern over the same, saying several schemes and the POCSO (Protection of Children from Sexual Offences…
SOUTH AFRICA’S former president Jacob Zuma allowed an Indian-origin business family to plunder state resources and influence policy decisions, an investigation has found. The first report of the South African Commission of Inquiry into State Capture highlighted Zuma’s influence in supporting the now-defunct newspaper The New Age (TNA) amid systemic corruption. The newspaper was…
A MAJOR controversy broke out in India’s political circles on Wednesday (5) after prime minister Narendra Modi’s convoy faced a ‘security lapse’ in the poll-bound northern state of Punjab. Modi, however, thanked the state's chief minister, who is from the opponent party, for remaining "alive". Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)…
ELECTIONS in India’s most populous state Uttar Pradesh are a few months away along with some others but even as the contesting parties accelerate their campaign ahead of the high-voltage elections, the surging cases of coronavirus have posed a challenge to all of them. On Wednesday (5), the Indian National…
INDIA on Wednesday (5) recorded its first Covid-19 death linked to the fast-spreading and more infectious Omicron variant in the western state of Rajasthan, an official in the country’s health ministry said. Indian news channel NDTV reported that the man, identified as Laxminarayan Nagar, was 73 years old. He had…
THE rising number of coronavirus cases has now hit India’s domestic cricket arena as the prestigious Ranji Trophy has been postponed following the surge, the country’s cricket board said in a statement. The first-class competition, which is named after Maharaja Ranjitsinhji, an Indian prince who had played for England in…
THE Indian Air Force (IAF) has given a detailed inquiry report on the December 8 helicopter crash that resulted in the deaths of the country’s first chief of defence staff Bipin Rawat, his wife and 11 other military personnel in the southern state of Tamil Nadu to defence minister Rajnath…
FOXCONN, the supplier of Apple Inc, is unlikely to resume its closed iPhone manufacturing facility in southern India until Friday (7), an informed senior government official told Reuters on the condition of anonymity. The plant, which is located close to Chennai, the capital of the southern Indian state of Tamil…
THE southern Indian state of Karnataka on Tuesday (4) decided to impose weekend curfew in the entire state for two weeks starting January 7 amid the rising number of Covid-19 cases. The weekend curfew will be imposed from 10 pm local time on Friday till 5 am local time on…
BRITISH Army Captain Harpreet Chandi has made history by becoming the first woman of colour to cross Antarctica unsupported. A message from the Sikh officer’s Twitter account said on Monday (3), “#polarpreet has just made #history becoming the first woman of colour to complete a solo expedition in Antarctica. She…
