- Wednesday, May 15, 2024
AIMING to woo the influential Indian-American voters numbering over two million, the Trump campaign has released a video commercial that has short clips from Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's speeches and US President Donald Trump's historic address in Ahmedabad. Modi and Trump addressed a huge crowd in the capital city…
INDIAN authorities have imposed tough anti-coronavirus restrictions on gatherings and the size of Lord Ganesha idols for one of the biggest religious festivals of the year that started on Saturday (22). The 10 days of prayers and family gatherings for Ganesh Chaturthi started under a pandemic cloud with the country…
THE World Health Organization has said it hopes the coronavirus pandemic will be shorter than the 1918 Spanish flu and last less than two years if the world unites and succeeds in finding a vaccine. The WHO has always been cautious about giving estimates on how quickly the pandemic can be dealt with while there…
TO Kuozeu Vizo, the landscape was as spellbinding as a rice field, golden and ripe for harvest, but it was her village burned black. “I still wonder how they even knew which land belonged to whom when they started rebuilding the village,” said Vizo, 98. She and fellow Naga people…
A PAIR of glasses believed to have been used by Mahatma Gandhi has been sold for £260,000, after it was found in an envelope sticking out of a Bristol-based auctioneer’s letterbox. Reports said an American collector bagged the spectacles – initially estimated to fetch about £15,000 – through "a phone…
A 36-YEAR-OLD man, who was extradited from India, has been sentenced to life imprisonment for carrying out a “horrific” series of rapes that culminated in murder. Aman Vyas, 36, of “no fixed address” had been convicted at the Old Bailey last month of the rape and murder of Michelle Samaraweera,…
INDIA's ambassador to the US has said clinching a limited trade deal would be a crucial step towards a comprehensive bilateral trade pact between the two nations. "First step to realise trade partnership is to conclude ongoing trade negotiations," said Taranjit Singh Sandhu during a virtual summit organised by an…
KAMALA HARRIS'S late mother instilled in her daughter a strong public service ethic and a drive to help the underprivileged that will make her the most active vice president in US history, her uncle said on Thursday (20). As she formally accepted the Democratic Party's nomination on Wednesday (19) to…
WHEN Joe Biden was elected as a "kid" US senator in 1972, one of the first letters he received was from Mumbai, with the sender having the same surname as his. The 'Biden from Mumbai' congratulated the senator from Delaware, and claimed they were related to each other. Biden, then…
THE NHS has urged Covid-19 survivors of South Asian heritage to donate their plasma to help save lives in the fight against the deadly virus. According to experts, people from a South Asian backgrounds were nearly twice as likely to have high-enough antibodies for life-saving treatment trials, compared with white…
