- Monday, May 06, 2024
INDIA's Prime Minister Narendra Modi will attend the COP26 climate summit, his office confirmed Sunday (24), in a major boost for the conference that has already been snubbed by key world leaders. More than 120 world leaders are expected to attend the biggest climate summit since the 2015 Paris talks…
FORMER Indian cricket captain Rahul Dravid is set to take over as the senior team's head coach after the T20 World Cup, local media reports said Saturday (16). The Times of India newspaper quoted an anonymous official at the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) as saying that…
INDIAN political, faith and community leaders took part in a special online appeal for hand hygiene and health to mark Global Handwashing Day Friday (15). Uttar Pradesh governor Anandiben Patel joined His Holiness Pujya Swami Chidanand Saraswatiji (HH Pujya Muniji), the Global Interfaith WASH Alliance’s faith leaders and Unicef’s India’s…
THE fatal stabbing of British lawmaker David Amess was a terrorist incident, police said Saturday (16), as MPs pressed for tougher security in the wake of the second killing of a UK politician while meeting constituents in just over five years. Veteran Conservative MP David Amess, 69, was talking with…
NEW research has revealed that truck drivers from India are among the leading category of workers interested in new temporary work visas introduced by the UK to address the drivers shortage. According to the report, drivers are applying from India, the UAE, South Africa, Poland and Nigeria. Indeed UK analysis…
A six-year-old British Indian girl has won Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s daily Points of Light award for her campaign to raise awareness of deforestation and climate change. Aleesha Gadhia is a climate activist and mini ambassador for UK-based non-profit Cool Earth and has raised over £3,000 for the organisation. Cool Earth…
ASHISH MISHRA, son of junior home minister Ajay Mishra Teni, has been arrested on accusations he ran over and killed four protesting farmers last week, a senior police official said. The farmers, killed on Oct. 3 in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, were part of India’s longest-running agricultural protest,…
INDIA's finance ministry said on Friday (1) reports suggesting the government has picked a winning bid for the debt-laden state-run airline Air India were incorrect. Earlier on Friday, Bloomberg reported that a panel of ministers accepted a proposal from officials recommending salt-to-software conglomerate Tata Sons ahead of an offer from…
LABOUR shadow communities secretary Steve Reed has said that the values of the Hindu community and the Labour party are very similar, as the party is trying to get the Indian diaspora voters back. Speaking at the Hindus for Labour fringe event on Wednesday (29), during the Labour party conference…
TENS of thousands of people have been evacuated in three Indian states ahead of a cyclone expected to smash into the east coast later Sunday (26), authorities said. Cyclones are a regular menace in the northern Indian Ocean but many scientists say they are becoming more frequent and severe as…
