- Wednesday, February 26, 2025
AFTER administering coronavirus vaccines to two age groups of 18-45 and 45 above, the Indian government has now focused on inoculating children aged between 18 and 15 and members of the said age category can register for the jabs on the government’s CoWIN app from January 1 using their school…
INDIA'S Adani Group is all set to ship the first cargo of coal from Australia’s most controversial mine after fighting a seven-year-old campaign by climate activists and overlooking a global call against using fossil fuel. The Carmichael mine in Australia’s Queensland province is likely to be the final thermal coal…
INDIAN prime minister Narendra Modi on Monday (27) backed his government’s decision to raise the age of marriage of girls from 18 to 21 saying it will help them in making their careers. Modi, who was in Mandi in the poll-bound northern Indian state of Himachal Pradesh to inaugurate a…
THE coronavirus crisis notwithstanding, India and South Africa have ramped up their ties – political and trade – in 2021. The crisis in fact gave both the democracies an opportunity to extend cooperation in fighting the deadly pandemic. Both nations have witnessed devastating pandemic waves in this year. While India…
THE Election Commission of India (ECI) on Monday (27) met the country’s health secretary Rajesh Bhushan and discussed the growing number of Covid-19 cases along with the vaccination status in five states that will go to polls early next year. Asian News International cited sources as saying that the ECI…
INDIA vice-captain KL Rahul smashed his first Test hundred in South Africa on Boxing Day (26) to help his side reach an advantageous position after captain Virat Kohli won the toss and elected to bat first at the SuperSport Park in Centurion. India ended the opening day at 272 for…
JUST a few days after Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan dissolved the organisational structure of his Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) in the wake of the party’s poor show in local government elections in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, workers of the party have expressed their dissatisfaction. They are particularly upset over the appointment of…
DAYS after the killing of 14 civilians by security forces in Nagaland, Neiphiu Rio, the chief minister of the north-eastern state on Sunday (26) said the Narendra Modi government has decided to set up a five-member committee to look into the withdrawal of the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, 1958,…
INDIA wants to manufacture BrahMos missiles not to attack any country but to ensure that no other country dares to cast an evil eye on it, the country’s defence minister Rajnath Singh on Sunday (26) said while emphasising on the need for maintaining nuclear deterrents. “The BrahMos missile and other…
INDIAN prime minister Narendra Modi on Saturday (25) said the country will begin administering Covid-19 booster jabs as a precautionary measure to healthcare and other frontline workers from January 10. He made the announcement as cases of Omicron variant infection rose across India. In a national address, Modi also added…
