- Wednesday, February 26, 2025
MORE than 3,100 minorities from countries like Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh have been granted Indian citizenship in the last four years, India’s minister of state for home affairs Nityanand Rai said in Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Indian parliament, on Wednesday (22). Dr K Keshava Rao, a member…
A MAN in India moved the court to complain about prime minister Narendra Modi promoting himself as the face of the country’s vaccination drive against Covid-19 pandemic but saw himself getting slapped with a fine for wasting the judge’s time. The incident happened on Tuesday (21). Modi has been the…
INDIA, who faced a shocking defeat to Japan in the semi-final of the Men’s Asian Champions Trophy in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on Tuesday (21), redeemed some pride a day later when they beat arch-rivals Pakistan 4-3 to pick the bronze medal. India played outstanding hockey in the league stage where they…
INDIA on Wednesday (22) successfully conducted the maiden flight test of ‘Pralay’, an indigenously developed, surface-to-surface missile, off the coast in the eastern state of Odisha, the country’s Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) said. The solid-fuel missile, which has been developed by the DRDO and launched from APJ Abdul…
CRICKET South Africa (CSA), which thanked India for sending its team for a full-fledged cricket tour starting this month despite the Omicron scare, has given permission to Team India to return home midway during the tour if the Covid-19 situation in the African nation worsens. India are set to play…
RAVICHANDRAN Ashwin, who recently became India’s third highest wicket-taker in Tests by overtaking fellow off-spinner Harbhajan Singh, recently confessed that he considered quitting the game several times between 2018 and 2020 due to injury and because he did not “feel backed”. The 35-year-old cricketer told ESPNcricinfo, “I contemplated retirement for…
INDIAN prime minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday (22) invited suggestions from students and alumni of the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) ahead of his visit to the institutes’ campus in Kanpur in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh on December 28. Modi, who has been inaugurating one mega project…
INDIAN prime minister Narendra Modi on Sunday (19) said the south-western state of Goa would have been liberated from the rule of the Portuguese much earlier had Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, India’s first home minister and known as ‘iron man’, been alive for some more time. He was speaking at an…
A day after a man was killed for an alleged sacrilege attempt at the Golden Temple in Amritsar in the northern Indian state of Punjab, another unidentified person faced the same fate as he was lynched by a mob for “disrespecting” the Sikh religious flag at a gurdwara in Nizampur…
BADMINTON player Kidabmi Srikanth on Sunday (19) became the first Indian to clinch a silver medal at the BWF World Champions in Heuvel, Spain. He lost to Singapore’s Loh Kean Yew in the title clash 15-21, 20-22. The match lasted for 43 minutes. Yew also created history by becoming the…
