- Monday, May 05, 2025
SEVA Trust UK (India), a charitable non-governmental organisation which is working in northern Indian states of Haryana and Punjab on issues such as education, health, environment and social welfare, recently organised a special event at Markandeshwar Hockey Stadium in Shahabad in Kurukshetra district of Haryana to honour the country’s hockey…
AN Indian-origin woman in Singapore was sentenced to 10 weeks’ jail for exiting her home several times to drink alcohol and socialise with friends when the city-state’s administration imposed a safety measure (circuit breaker) against coronavirus in 2020. Letchimi, a 37-year-old woman who goes by one name, pleaded guilty on…
INDIAN finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced in her annual budget unveiled on Tuesday (1) that the government aims to generate six million jobs over the next five years. However, questions are being raised in various quarters over the promise as critics have reminded that prime minister Narendra Modi had pledged…
INDIA'S Olympic gold medal-winning athlete Neeraj Chopra was on Wednesday (2) nominated for the prestigious Laureus ‘World Breakthrough of the Year’ Award – becoming the first Indian to be featured in the short-list for the same category. Overall, he is only the third Indian to fetch a Laureus nomination after…
IN a shocking development, frontline health workers engaged in India’s Covid vaccination drive have said that people are being officially certified as double vaccinated even when they have not completed the course of two jabs in order to meet government targets. According to a report by The Guardian, the workers…
SRI LANKA on Wednesday (2) signed a credit line with India worth $500 million (£368 million) to import fuel, officials said, as the island-nation tries to resolve rolling power cuts while coping with a serious foreign-exchange crisis which has hurt its capacity to buy fuel for power plants. The credit…
FORMER Indian National Congress president Rahul Gandhi has faced stern reaction both at home and abroad over his critical remarks on the Narendra Modi government’s handling of the foreign policy, especially with regard to the two rival neighbours of Pakistan and China. In his speech on the motion of thanks…
THE shadow of the border tension between India and China has impacted the Winter Olympics 2022 with the former saying on Thursday (3) that its chargé d'affaires in the Indian embassy in Beijing will not attend the opening ceremony of the sporting event over China honouring a military commander involved…
OFFICIALS in India have engaged in heated talks with US tech giants such as Google, Twitter and Facebook for not proactively removing what they called fake news on their platforms, Reuters reported citing sources. The officials from India’s ministry of information and broadcasting lashed out at the companies and said…
A TOP Indian diaspora group has urged US president Joe Biden to reject the appointment of Masood Khan as Pakistan’s ambassador to Washington DC, alleging that the latter is a sympathiser of terrorist outfits. The Foundation for India and Indian Diaspora Studies (FIIDS) on Wednesday (2) appealed to Biden in…
