- Sunday, May 04, 2025
JULY 5 was a poor day for India’s second-largest carrier SpiceJet as it had a number of incidents where flights faced either technical snags or mid-air scare. The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), India’s civil aviation regulator, has now pulled up the carrier in the wake of eight incidents…
BRITISH prime minister Boris Johnson has found himself in a spot again after two senior cabinet members of his government stepped down on Tuesday (5) in the form of chancellor of exchequer Rishi Sunak and health secretary Sajid Javid. The resignations saw reactions coming from India, a country which is…
THE Toronto-based Aga Khan Museum, which landed in trouble for the inappropriate depiction of Hindu Gods, has expressed deep regret for "inadvertently causing offence" to members of the Hindu and other faiths. In a statement, the museum said Toronto Metropolitan University brought together works from students of diverse ethnic and…
ACE India batter Virat Kohli, who was once counted among the Greatest of All Time (GOAT), found himself dropping out of the top 10 batters in Test cricket in the latest International Cricket Council (ICC) rankings for the long format announced on Wednesday (6). Wicket-keeper-batter Rishabh Pant, who hit a…
FRENCH mobility company Alstom on Wednesday (6) said it has won an order worth Rs 3,200 crore (£337 million) to supply metro trains and various systems for Bhopal and Indore metro rail projects. The order has been awarded by Madhya Pradesh Metro Rail Corporation Limited (MPMRCL) to deliver 156 Movia…
EXPERIMENTATION will go out of the window as India will get down to finalising their best eleven for the World Cup during the three-match T20 series against an ultra-aggressive England, beginning here on Thursday (7). Skipper Rohit Sharma, who missed the fifth Test in Birmingham after contracting Covid-19, will be…
IT'S another controversy snowballing in India over the poster of a film by an Indian filmmaker showing Goddess Kaali smoking, parliamentarian Mahua Moitra has faced a backlash from the country’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for allegedly insulting the goddess. The Hindu right-wing BJP on Tuesday (6) lodged two complaints…
A LEOPARD mauled an 80-year-old visually impaired woman to death in Amreli district of the western Indian state of Gujarat on Tuesday (5), a forest official said on Wednesday. The incident took place late in the night when the victim, Shantaben, was sleeping in her hut on the outskirts of…
AFTER two nights in police custody, Indian teenager Somaiya Fatima was released in time to watch live footage of an excavator claw smashing into the walls of her childhood home. The residence is among scores of dwellings and businesses flattened by wrecking crews this year, in a campaign authorities have…
RUSSIA appreciates India for not supporting attempts to isolate it in multilateral forums and that bilateral trade between the two countries are on an upswing, Moscow's ambassador to India Denis Alipov said on Tuesday (5). He also said that the idea of expansion of the BRICS (Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa) received "principled…
