- Monday, May 05, 2025
THE rebel members of the legislative assembly (MLAs) of Maharashtra's ruling Shiv Sena, who are led by Eknath Shinde, on Saturday (25) named their group as 'Shiv Sena Balasaheb'. The state's former minister of state for home and rebel MLA Deepak Kesarkar confirmed the news to Asian News International. The…
MONICA Lewinsky, the former White House intern who rose to fame over a sex scandal involving former US president Bill Clinton, was back in the news on Friday (24) after the country’s Supreme Court gave an earth-shattering verdict on abortion. The 48-year-old went after the judges of the top court…
THE Narendra Modi government has directed all the states and the Union Territories (UTs) of India to conduct events in jails to celebrate 'Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav' with inmates lodged under charges of various offences. Named 'Transformation@75 - Celebrating Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav with Jail inmates', the event has been…
INDIAN home minister Amit Shah on Saturday (25) said prime minister Narendra Modi had “endured false allegations” linked to the 2002 riots in the western state of Gujarat of which he was the chief minister at the time for 19 years as the legal process was on. He said this…
HOSTS India have been clubbed alongside football powerhouse Brazil, Morocco and the USA in a tough Group A for the upcoming U-17 FIFA Women's World Cup, the draw for which took place on Friday. The country is slated to host the tournament from October 11 to 30 across three venues.…
THE US Supreme Court on Friday (24) ended the right to abortion in a seismic ruling that shreds half a century of constitutional protections on one of America's most divisive and bitterly fought issues. The conservative-dominated court overturned the landmark 1973 "Roe v. Wade" decision that enshrined a woman's right…
CHINESE President Xi Jinping on Friday (24) announced an additional 1 billion (£10 million) to the 3 billion (£31 million) already committed by China to the Global Development and South-South Cooperation Fund as he held a high-level dialogue on global development in virtual format, a day after hosting the 14th…
HERE are news in brief from India on Friday, June 24, 2022: National Democratic Alliance’s presidential candidate Droupadi Murmu files nomination papers: The presidential candidate nominated by the Bharatiya Janata Party-led NDA, Droupadi Murmu on Friday (24) filed her nomination papers in New Delhi. ALSO READ: Business news in brief…
INDIA'S regular participation at the G7 summits clearly means that the West needs it to confront major challenges that the world is facing, the country’s foreign secretary Vinay Mohan Kwatra said on Friday (24). The G7 bloc, which includes the world’s seven richest nations, is set to hold its next…
FROM Covid-19 to the war in Ukraine, external crises have put pressure on African economies, but many on the continent see opportunities to undertake radical reforms. Africa already showed some resilience during the pandemic as its economic contraction was less severe than in the rest of the world, shrinking by…
