- Wednesday, February 26, 2025
PAKISTAN has set for India a list of conditions before allowing it to reach aid to Afghanistan which is facing a number of crises after the Taliban stormed back to power last August. The new terms surface days after Islamabad officially announced allowing “transportation of 50,000 MTs of wheat and…
INDIA on Tuesday (30) escalated the incident of a Pakistani model’s photoshoot at Gurdwara Darbar Sahib in Kartarpur at the diplomatic level by summoning the Charge d’Affaires at the Pakistan High Commission in New Delhi and expressing deep concern over the episode which it called a “desecration” of the sanctity…
THE annual Asian Business Awards, hosted last month by the Asian Media Group, publishers of India Weekly, Eastern Eye and Garavi Gujarat news weeklies, will be broadcast on TV this weekend. The ceremony, held in central London on November 19, will be shown on Zee TV’s flagship community show Out…
AT a time when racism has rocked county cricket in England, former India leg-spinner Laxman Sivaramakrishnan has claimed that he has been “colour discriminated” throughout his life and such discrimination happens in his own country. The 55-year-old, who has also made a mark as a cricket commentator and analyst after…
INCIDENTS of infiltration and terror strikes have gone down significantly in Jammu and Kashmir since 2018, India’s minister of state for home affairs Nityanand Rai told Rajya Sabha, the upper chamber of the Indian parliament, on Wednesday (1). The winter session of the parliament kicked off on Monday (29). ALSO…
INDIA-BORN Parag Agrawal’s appointment this week as the new CEO of Twitter suggests the company has picked engineering as its top priority and reflects a tacit endorsement by the board to double its annual revenue by 2023, even if investors were not so sure. Jack Dorsey announced on Monday (29)…
INDIAN health minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Tuesday (30) told the parliament that Omicron, the new Covid-19 variant of concern, has not been reported in India yet. Speaking in the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the parliament of which he is a member, Mandaviya said, “The Omicron variant has been…
THE government of the southern Indian state of Kerala on Tuesday (30) said that it will not provide free treatment to those Covid-19 patients who have not been vaccinated. The decision was to encourage more people to get jabbed amid the growing concern over the Omicron variant of the deadly…
INDIA head coach Rahul Dravid has said that Ajinkya Rahane’s lean patch with the bat is not a cause of concern and he can turn things around in a single knock. Rahane, who led India in the first Test against New Zealand in Kanpur in the absence of regular captain…
WITH the elevation of Parag Agrawal as the next chief executive officer (CEO) of social media giant Twitter, the number of Indian-origin executives leading US-based global multinationals has grown. Twitter’s outgoing CEO Jack Dorsey on Monday (29) announced that Agrawal, 37, an alumnus of IIT Bombay and Stanford University, will…
