- Tuesday, April 23, 2024
A milk federation from the Indian state of Karnataka has decided to sponsor the Scotland and Ireland cricket teams. The Karnataka Milk Federation, known for its 'Nandini' brand, will sponsor the teams during the upcoming 2024 T20 World Cup. The federation has confirmed the news, stating that the teams would…
It is just one week before India goes for general elections, the world's largest polls, and the campaigning is at its peak now. The tussle between the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party-led government and the opposition has intensified with promises, accusations, and controversial statements being made from both sides. Nearly a…
Indian prime minister Narendra Modi is expected to retain power in the multi-phase general elections starting this month, but the question is how far he will succeed in wooing the wealthier and better-educated south. After a decade in power, Modi hopes to significantly increase his Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) 55…
Pegatron is in advanced talks to hand over control of its only iPhone manufacturing facility in India to the Tata Group, said two sources with direct knowledge, marking the Taiwanese firm's latest scaleback of its Apple partnership. Under the deal, which has received the backing of Apple, Tata plans to…
WITNESSING "infinite demand" in the strong Indian aviation market, British carrier Virgin Atlantic said it will start an additional daily flight connecting Mumbai and London from October. The airline added that it will look to expand its codeshare partnership with IndiGo. Currently, Virgin Atlantic operates two daily flights to London…
Thousands are lured to Cambodia with promises of data entry jobs, only to find themselves trapped in a nightmarish world of forced labour. These "cyber slaves" are forced to run online scams that target people worldwide. These victims are held captive in high-security complexes, guarded by armed men. Their passports…
Energy management and automation major Schneider Electric plans to invest Rs 32 billion by 2026 to make India its manufacturing hub for domestic sales and exports. Under the plan, Schneider Electric on Thursday (21) inaugurated a facility in Bengaluru with Rs 1 billion investment to produce cooling solutions for data…
A 2022 report showed that Amazon Web Services (AWS) had plans to extend data centres into four regions of India within two years. These regions, Kolkata, Bengaluru, Delhi and Chennai, were part of AWS's larger vision of reaching 32 such local areas in 26 countries by 2024. Better Customer Experiences…
India's main reservoirs have hit their lowest March levels in five years, government data showed, indicating a possible squeeze on drinking water and power availability this summer in most parts of the country. In major centres such as India's 'Silicon Valley' Bengaluru, home to IT majors like Google, Infosys, and…
A UK-based professor of Asian origin was denied entry by the immigration authorities at Bangalore airport in India on Friday (23) despite being an invitee for a function organised by the Karnataka state, according to multiple reports. Nitasha Kaul, who teaches at the University of Westminster, recounted her ordeal on…
INDIAN edtech firm Byju's said Wednesday (21) a court had given it temporary protection in its fight against a group of shareholders trying to sack the company's billionaire founder. Byju's, which is controlled by CEO Byju Raveendran, was once one of India's most valuable start-ups as demand for its online…
TATA GROUP is in advanced talks with Taiwan's Pegatron to form a partnership to run an iPhone assembly plant the Indian company is building in the southern state of Tamil Nadu, two sources with direct knowledge of the matter said. Tata is building the iPhone assembly plant in Hosur city,…
THE new Ram idol consecrated at the temple on Monday (23) will be known as “Balak Ram” as it depicts the deity as a five-yearold boy in a standing posture. Arun Dixit, a priest associated with the consecration ceremony, said, “The reason for naming the idol of Lord Ram as…
ROHAN BOPANNA's worn out knees have not stopped him from climbing the world doubles rankings and the 43-year-old Indian became the oldest player to reach number one after making the Australian Open semi-finals with Matthew Ebden on Wednesday. Bopanna and Australian Ebden beat Argentine pair Maximo Gonzalez and Andres Molteni…
Police reported the arrest of the CEO of an Indian AI startup in Bengaluru on suspicion of murdering her four-year-old son, after his body was discovered in her luggage, police said Tuesday (9). Suchana Seth, who heads The Mindful AI Lab in India’s tech hub of Bengaluru, was detained in…
INFOSYS co-founder NR Narayana Murthy was not in favour of his wife Sudha joining the company because he did not want the then start-up to be perceived as nepotistic, a new book has claimed. Murthy, whose daughter Akshata is married to prime minister Rishi Sunak, set up the company along…
INDIA’S coffee exports are likely to rise by as much as 10 per cent in 2024 as a rally in global prices prompts European buyers to pay premiums in order to increase purchases from the country, industry officials told Reuters. The country - famous as a tea producer - is…
A group of protesters targeted Indian-American Congressman Shri Thanedar over the weekend, blowing car horns and screaming for his "silence" on the deaths of Palestinians in Gaza and his stance on the Israel-Hamas war. Thanedar, 68, has taken a staunchly supportive approach to Israel following the horrific attack by Hamas…
Kantara star Rishab Shetty has adopted a Kannada government school in his hometown Keradi in southern Karnataka. According to a member of Shetty’s team, the actor-filmmaker lent his support to the school through the Rishab Shetty Foundation, which was launched earlier this year. Shetty previously raised awareness about the plight…
The Ram Temple Trust has extended invitations to 7,000 individuals, among them cricket icons Sachin Tendulkar and Virat Kohli, Hindi movie superstar Amitabh Bachchan, and prominent industrialists Mukesh Ambani and Gautam Adani, for the consecration ceremony of the Ram temple in Ayodhya, in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, sources…
FORMER Spain and Liverpool midfielder Luis Garcia believes that Indian football can touch global heights if the players are given exposure to different leagues abroad and young talents and coaches are trained methodically. The 45-year-old, who was part of the ISL [Indian Super League] title-winning Atletico de Kolkata side in…
AN ELUSIVE World title and an Olympic gold medal are on young spinner Shreyanka Patil’s wish-list as she is ready to embark on a journey in international cricket which promises to be an eventful one. Patil made a name for herself in the inaugural edition of Women’s Premier League (WPL)…
INDIA'S ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday (3) appeared set to win three of four states in key regional polls, in a big boost for prime minister Narendra Modi ahead of general elections in six months. The heartland states of Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh, and the southern state…
Diwali in southern India is a one-day celebration called Naraka Chaturdashi, occurring a day ahead of Diwali. Unlike the five-day festivities in the north, it signifies Krishna's victory over Narakasura. The day starts with an early morning oil bath, followed by elders applying oil to the heads of younger family…
In an effort to combat air pollution in New Delhi, the Delhi government intends to artificially induce rainfall through cloud seeding this month, Environment Minister Gopal Rai announced on Wednesday (8). Rai held a meeting with scientists from IIT-Kanpur who explained that cloud seeding can only be attempted when there…
THE rapid rise of educational content creators has taken social media users from scrolling for influencers, dance videos and comedy to something more enlightening. One of those reshaping that online landscape into something more informative is Kavya Karnatac. The rapidly rising Indian star has gained over million Instagram followers since…
THERE are 635 UK companies operating in India with a combined turnover of approximately £51 billion and employing around 666,992 people, according to the 2023 edition of ‘Britain Meets India’ (BMI) report. The third edition of the report, launched by Grant Thornton Bharat in partnership with the Confederation of Indian…
INDIA’s Enforcement Directorate on Monday (9) said it has issued a fresh order to seize assets worth more than Rs 240 million of a hatchery company as part of an investigation relating to alleged violation of the foreign exchange law. Six immovable properties belonging to Venkateshwara Hatcheries Pvt Ltd in…
ANTI-MUSLIM hate speech incidents in India averaged more than one a day in the first half of 2023 and were seen most in states with upcoming elections, according to a report by Hindutva Watch, a Washington-based group monitoring attacks on minorities. There were 255 documented incidents of hate speech gatherings…
In the southern Indian state of Karnataka, police arrested a 78-year-old man, Ganapati Vitthal Wagore, who had been accused of stealing two buffaloes and a calf back in 1965 when he was 20 years old, the BBC reported. At the time, he was initially arrested for the alleged theft alongside…
EXPERTS have fanned out in India's southern state of Kerala to collect samples of fluid from bats and fruit trees in a region where the deadly Nipah virus has killed two people and three more have tested positive. The state is battling its fourth outbreak since 2018 of a virus…
Leaders from various countries, including heads of state, who participated in the G20 Summit held in Delhi, were presented with a carefully curated assortment of handcrafted artifacts and products that reflect India's vibrant cultural heritage, officials announced on Tuesday (12). They said a number of these gifts were painstakingly created…
As India prepares to host the G20 Summit, a group of nine retired judges has reached out to the leaders of G20 nations, urging them to seek a compassionate resolution by repatriating Indian children who have been separated from their parents by state child agencies in Western Europe, the UK,…
Makers of the upcoming series Scam 2003: The Telgi Story on Friday night unveiled the official teaser. Taking to Instagram, director Hansal Mehta shared the teaser which he captioned, “Life mein aage badhna hain toh daring to karna padega na darling! Here it is. #Scam2003. One more @karanvyas11 gem. Directed…
SOCIAL media platform Twitter is seeking to quash an Indian court ruling that it was not compliant with federal government orders to remove content, arguing it could embolden New Delhi to block more content and broaden the scope for censorship. Twitter in July 2022 sought to overturn government orders to…
A MAJOR highlight of this month’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival will be the world premiere of Tandava, which is a thrilling new collaboration between British guitarist Simon Thacker and Bangalore based Piah Dance Company. The multi-layered music and dance production, being staged as part of the Made in Scotland showcase, adds…
Like other institutes, banks also have certain working hours for various services. From visiting the bank to making online transactions to calling customer care services, it is important to know the timings to avoid unnecessary long hours of wait. Almost all the banks in India have the same working hours…
INDIA’S principal opposition has outscored prime minister Narendra Modi’s party in terms of the number of wealthy provincial lawmakers, according to a democracy campaign group. A total of 33 members of state legislative assemblies (MLAs) belonging to the Congress are “billionaires” in rupee terms, compared with 24 of the Bharatiya…
NINE months before a general election, India’s prime minister Narendra Modi and his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) have dusted off a potentially divisive plan to enact a common set of personal laws for all, irrespective of religion. Currently, India's Hindus, Muslims, Christians, and large tribal populations follow their own personal…
In a testament to their incredible cultural creativity, the women belonging to the nomadic Lambani community of Hampi in Karnataka, India have achieved a remarkable feat by setting a new Guinness World Record. At the G20 Culture Working Group meeting held in Hampi, approximately 450 Lambani artisans proudly displayed their…
SEVERAL youth activists, humanitarians and entrepreneurs from India were among the worldwide winners of the Diana Awards, created in memory of the late Diana, Princess of Wales. Among the Indian winners is Sanya Sharma, founder of ‘Scarlet Udaan’, a global youth organisation that raises awareness on female genital cutting (FGC)…
AN INDIAN court on Friday fined Twitter $61,000 after dismissing its plea challenging orders to remove tweets and accounts critical of prime minister Narendra Modi's government. The world's biggest democracy petitions Twitter for content removals more than almost any other country, and the platform regularly takes down or blocks content…
BENGALURU-BASED Indian Institute of Science (IISc) has emerged as the highest-ranked Indian institution in the ‘Times High Education (THE) Asia University Rankings 2023' released in London on Thursday (22). While IISc is ranked 48th, the second highest ranked university in India is also is Karnataka – JSS Academy of Higher…
INDIAN prime minister Narendra Modi's visit to the United States may encourage more American companies to consider investing in the South Asian country as they look to reduce their reliance on China for manufacturing-related activities. The United States is the third largest source of foreign investment for India, with over…
PRIME minister Narendra Modi gave Joe Biden a special sandalwood box with a carved silver idol of Lord Ganesha as he met the US president on the first day of his state visit in Washington DC yesterday (21). Sourced from Mysuru in the south Indian state of Karnataka, the box…
If you work in business, you've probably heard the term "tender" at least once. A tender comprises submitting a bid on behalf of a person, group, or business for a project and, if your bid is accepted, completing it within the time frame specified. Presenting your proposed project cost and…
A STORM off India's west coast has strengthened to become a powerful cyclone and could hit Gujarat state and southern parts of Pakistan this week, the weather department said. The cyclone, named Biparjoy, is expected to make landfall on Thursday (15) afternoon between Mandvi in Gujarat and Karachi in Pakistan…
MONSOON rains reached India's southernmost Kerala coast on Thursday (8), offering relief to farmers after a delay of more than a week, marking their latest arrival in seven years. The monsoon, the lifeblood of the country's $3 trillion economy, delivers nearly 70 per cent of the rain India needs to…
Actor Rajkummar Rao says they will make the sequel of his hugely acclaimed horror-comedy film Stree with the same honesty and affection they had for the original. Also featuring Pankaj Tripathi, Abhishek Banerjee, Aparshakti Khurana, and Shraddha Kapoor, the movie turned out to be one of the most commercially-successful and critically-acclaimed…
The mother-in-law of prime minister Rishi Sunak, Sudha Murty, has said that the UK immigration officer looked at her incredulously when she mentioned 10 Downing Street as her London address. “They asked me my residential address. My elder sister was with me and I thought should I write '10 Downing…
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday (13) thanked the people of Karnataka on party’s expected victory and said that “market of hate has been shut and shops of love have opened”. He also said that the power of crony capitalism has been defeated by the power of poor people. Speaking…
India's main opposition Congress party was set to win elections on Saturday (13) in the southern state of Karnataka defeating the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), TV channels said, a big boost ahead of national elections due next year. The election is the first of five crucial state polls this…
India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is trailing the main opposition Congress party in elections held on Wednesday (10) in the southern state of Karnataka, but neither seemed set for a clear win, TV exit polls showed. The election in Karnataka, where BJP led the outgoing government, is the first…
Taiwanese electronics giant Foxconn has bought a huge tract of land on the outskirts of Indian tech hub Bengaluru, the key Apple supplier said in a filing Tuesday (9). Also known by its official name, Hon Hai Precision Industry, Foxconn is the world's biggest contract electronics manufacturer and a principal…
Those who want to ban The Kerala Story are as "wrong" as those who didn't want Aamir Khan-starrer Laal Singh Chaddha to be released, said veteran actor Shabana Azmi on Monday amid the row around the Sudipto Sen-directorial that hit the screens last week. Her comments come a day after…
Sudha Murthy is a renowned Indian educator, author, social worker, and philanthropist who has made significant contributions to the fields of literature, education, and social welfare. She is chairperson at the Infosys Foundation and is the spouse of N. R. Narayana Murthy, one of the co-founders of Infosys, an Indian…
According to Indian National Congress advocate BM Mangukia, Indian politician Rahul Gandhi has submitted an application to the Gujarat High Court on Tuesday (25), challenging the Surat sessions court's order that refused to suspend his conviction in a criminal defamation case last week, related to his "Modi surname" comment. The…
Relatives of several Indians stuck in Sudan following the fighting between the Army and paramilitary forces have appealed to the government to evacuate them from the African country as soon as possible. Around 3,000 Indians are estimated to be stranded in Sudan. They include around 100 people from the Hakki-Pikki…
Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao, a prominent Indian-American mathematician and statistician, will receive the 2023 International Prize in Statistics. Rao's ‘monumental’ work more than 75 years ago continues to exert a profound influence on science, the International Prize in Statistics Foundation said in a statement. Rao, 102, will receive the prize, which…
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi is expected to visit Surat city in Gujarat on Monday (03) to file an appeal in court against his criminal defamation conviction for his "Modi surname" comments. According to sources, senior Congress figures, including Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and the chief ministers of three Congress-ruled states, as…
As part of a continuing investigation into mobile phone-based loan apps allegedly run by Chinese nationals, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) has seized funds worth around Rs 1,060 million (£12.9m) held in various payment gateway merchant IDs and bank accounts under anti-money laundering law, according to the ED's statement. The ED…
India’s Surat court which on Thursday (23) sentenced Congress leader Rahul Gandhi to a two-year jail term in a criminal defamation case noted that the seriousness of his crime increased because a speech delivered by a member of parliament has a "very wide impact on the public." Convicting Gandhi under…
The opposition leader in India, Rahul Gandhi, has been handed a two-year prison sentence in a criminal defamation case. The conviction comes as a result of comments made during an election rally in 2019, in which Gandhi referred to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's surname. Although he has been granted bail…
Indian director S.S. Rajamouli's films are all-singing, all-dancing spectacles -- and he is now a favourite to secure the first ever Oscar for an all-Indian film. His three-hour extravaganza "RRR" is a fictionalised story of two colonial-era revolutionaries, filled with large-scale, visual effects-laden action sequences and musical numbers. It has…
German chancellor Olaf Scholz is set to pay a state visit to India on February 25 and 26, his first trip to the country more than a year after he took charge of the top post in December 2021. Announcing the German chancellor's visit, the Indian ministry of external affairs…
A one-time school dropout from a Mumbai slum has turned his life around to become a football coach for 260 children as part of the legacy of the 2022 World Cup. Govinda Rathod is now a role model for teenagers who want to emulate him by using sport to escape…
Celebrity Cricket League (CCL), the largest Sportainment event in the nation, is back and better than ever. The two main sources of entertainment in our nation are sports and movies, and CCL is a special fusion of both. Teams from 8 different regions of India will compete in this season's…
If you loved Kantara then there's good news for you. As Kantara completed 100 days, the film's star Rishabh Shetty recently celebrated the milestone with the team. At an event, Rishabh announced the film's prequel. Yes, you read it right. He said, "We are very pleased and thankful to the…
Salman Rushdie, the Mumbai-born author of Booker Prize-winning novel 'Midnight’s Children’, said on Monday that he feels lucky to have survived the last year’s brutal stabbing at a literary event in the US as he spoke for the first time about the “colossal attack”. The 75-year-old British American novelist was…
President Droupadi Murmu, Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar and leaders cutting across the political spectrum on Friday condoled the death of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's mother Hiraben, recalling her simple and compassionate life that was an inspiration for all. Hiraben, Hiraba to many, passed away at an Ahmedabad hospital on Friday…
2022 turned out to be a disastrous year for Bollywood with several high-profile films featuring A-list actors falling flat at the box office. The South Indian film industry, on the other hand, witnessed terrific growth, especially the Kannada film industry by delivering back-to-back success with Yash starrer KGF: Chapter 2…
Hombale Films, the production house behind Kannada blockbusters “KGF” and “Kantara”, aims to invest £30o million crore in the Indian entertainment industry in the coming five years. Vijay Kiragandur, the founder of Hombale Films, said the company is planning to produce movies in all southern languages. “We intend to invest…
The British Library in London is celebrating the 75th anniversary of India’s independence with a special photographic exhibition on the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Hampi in Karnataka. ‘Hampi: Photography and Archaeology in southern India’ is made up of a display of photographs taken between 1857 and 1970 capturing the…
Health experts state that constipation is an extremely common gastrointestinal problem which can become more agonizing, especially during the winter months. This is because many people experience slow metabolism brought on by inactivity, thus making it difficult to pass their bowels regularly. Apparently, constipation occurs due to a person’s dietary…
A professor of a private university in the southern state of Karnataka has been suspended after a video of him calling a Muslim student by a terrorist's name went viral on social media. The student and the professor of the Manipal Institute of Technology (MIT) at Manipal in Udupi district…
PRIME MINISTER Rishi Sunak and his wife Akshata Murty have made their debut on the Asian Rich List 2022, which profiles the 101 wealthiest Asians in Britain. Sunak and his wife – whose father NR Narayana Murthy co-founded Indian IT major, Infosys – are ranked 17th in the list, with…
Following the invitation to controversial Islamic preacher Zakir Naik by Qatar to FIFA World Cup, India ruling party, Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) Savio Rodrigues on Tuesday appealed to the government, Indian Football Associations and Indians travelling to the host nation to boycott the sporting event. Zakir Naik, who is an…
Indian fugitive preacher Zakir Naik, who faces charges of money laundering and hate speech in India, is set to give religious lectures at the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar, according to social media posts. "Preacher Sheikh Zakir Naik is present in Qatar during the World Cup and will give…
A delegation of Odisha Tourism led by Ashwini Kumar Patra, the eastern Indian state's tourism minister; and Suresh Chandra Mahapatra, its chief secretary, on Tuesday (8) took part in the World Travel Market (WTM) which is currently underway in London. The three-day global travel show which kicked off on Monday…
2022 has not been a good year for Bollywood in terms of its performance at the box office. A number of high-profile films, featuring leading actors, have performed poorly so far and there is not much hope from the films set to release in months to come either. While Bollywood…
India's High Commissioner to the UK, Vikram Doraiswami on Tuesday (local time), inaugurated the India pavilion and several state tourism pavilions at the World Travel Market (WTM) London. He made the inaugurations along with Arvind Singh, Secretary, Ministry of Tourism and state leaders from Odisha, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Maharashtra and…
Taking some time out from his hectic schedule, revered spiritual guru Sri Sri Ravi Shankar on Wednesday watched the latest Kannada blockbuster film Kantara. He enjoyed a special screening of the film with his devotees at his ashram in Bengaluru. In a video, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar said, “This film’s…
After RRR and KGF: Chapter 2, yet another South Indian film has taken the Indian box office by storm. Actor-filmmaker Rishab Shetty’s latest Kannada outing Kantara, which opened in theatres on September 30, has been performing beyond expectations at the domestic box office. Apart from putting up a great show…
An Indian-origin doctor living in the US took philanthropy to the next level by donating all her wealth to her alma mater in her native country.Immunologist Uma Devi Gavini donated Rs 200 million (£2.2m) to the Government General Hospital in Guntur in the south Indian state of Andhra Pradesh where…
President Joe Biden has nominated US Surgeon General Dr Vivek Murthy to serve as the country's representative on the executive board of the World Health Organisation. Dr Murthy, 45, will serve in the new position alongside his continued duties as the US Surgeon General, the White House said in a…
Last month, Indian-origin yoga prodigy Ishwar Sharma was honoured by the government of the southern Indian state of Karnataka at the Yogathon 2022 event held at the Kanteerava Stadium in Bengaluru, the state capital. He was honoured by the state's sports minister, C Narayanagowda. At 12, Ishwar is already an…
THE 1990s were a time of hope in India. One of my jobs at the Daily Telegraph was to travel regularly to India and do surveys of the Indian economy. While I would do the journalistic interviews, an accompanying colleague from advertising would try to persuade captains of industry to…
The Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to hear next week appeals challenging Karnataka High Court's order which upheld the state government's decision to ban wearing hijabs in school and college classrooms. A bench headed by Chief Justice of India NV Ramana and Justices Krishna Murari and Hima Kohli said it…
India's Supreme Court on Monday awarded four months in jail to fugitive businessman Vijay Mallya who was found guilty of contempt of court in 2017 for withholding information from the court. A bench of Justices UU Lalit, Ravindra S Bhat and PS Narasimha also imposed a cost of Rs 2,000…
A minister in India's southern Karnataka state has urged people not to sacrifice cattle for the upcoming Eid ul-Adha (Bakrid) festival during the weekend, according to a report. Animal husbandry minister Prabhu B Chavan has also warned of stern action against offenders, the Hindustan Times reported. He added the police…
ON the occasion of International Day of Yoga, prime minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday (21) said that yoga is becoming a way of life and has become a source of inspiration for health, balance and cooperation. The Prime Minister remarked that India is celebrating Yoga Day at a time when…
Production companies T-Series and Almighty Motion Picture on Friday announced that they have acquired the adaptation rights of the upcoming book "Coffee King: The Swift Rise and Sudden Death of Cafe Coffee Day Founder V.G Siddhartha".The book has been written by investigative journalists Rukmini BR and Prosenjit Datta. It will…
Dr. Ashwath Narayan emphasized the pole position of Bengaluru and Karnataka in attracting domestic and foreign investment. He reiterated that Bengaluru has become the hub of attracting the country’s best talent. While doing so, he explained the steps taken by the Government of Karnataka and the Government of India to…
ICONIC Bollywood film Mr India marks its 35th anniversary this month. Originally released on May 29, 1987, the story about a kind-hearted man balancing looking after orphans with becoming the invisible man and battling a fearsome villain was a runaway success when it released. It also gifted audiences many memorable…
The inaugural edition of the Ideas for India conference ended on Friday after three days of rich discussion on public policy. The three-day event on 18-20 May was held to celebrate India’s 75th anniversary of Independence, with speakers providing their vision for where they see India in the coming 25…
After shattering a slew of box office records with their latest release KGF: Chapter 2 (2022), the makers at Hombale Films are set to roll a new film, titled Bagheera. The production on the upcoming Kannada film has commenced, announced the makers on Friday. The action-thriller film is written by…
AT LEAST 10 people including a four-year-old child have died in floods and landslides this week after unusually heavy rains pummelled several parts of India.Experts say extreme weather around the world is being driven by climate change, made worse in South Asia by damming, deforestation and over-the-top development projects.The Indian…
AUDITOR EY is facing a $2.5 billion (£2 bn) lawsuit in London over alleged negligence in its audits of bankrupt UAE hospital firm NMC Health, founded by Indian-born businessman Bavaguthu Raghuram Shetty.NMC's administrator Alvarez & Marsal has launched legal action against EY's UK division regarding audits on NMC accounts between…
Bollywood actor, producer, and philanthropist Deepika Padukone, who won rave reviews for her power-packed performance in her recent release Gehraiyaan (2022), has featured in the TIME100 Impact Awards. The actress featured on the list for her work in films and mental health advocacy. The Bajirao Mastani (2015) actress took to…
INDIA’S Supreme Court will hear petitions challenging a lower court order which upheld a local ban on wearing the hijab in educational institutions.It said it will consider listing the case after the Holi festival which is celebrated on Friday (18).The petitioners - a group of schoolgirls - moved the country’s…
HARDLINE Hindu groups are demanding restrictions on wearing the hijab in classrooms in more Indian states after a court upheld a ban on the traditional Islamic head-scarf in Karnataka state, worrying Muslim students who had protested against the ban. The Karnataka High Court decision on Tuesday (15), backing the southern…
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday praised filmmaker Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri’s The Kashmir Files, a film based on the exodus of Kashmiri Pandits from the Kashmir Valley in the 1990s. He said the film is "bringing the truth in its correct form" and history has to be presented in…
AN INDIAN court upheld on Tuesday (15) a ban on wearing the hijab in classrooms in the southern state of Karnataka, a ruling that could set a precedent for the rest of the country which has a big Muslim minority.The ban last month by the state sparked protests by some…
RUSSIA has informed the UN security council that buses are ready at crossing points to go to Kharkiv and Sumy in Ukraine to evacuate Indian students and other foreign nationals stranded there. An emergency UN session was held on Friday (4) following Russia's attack on Ukraine's Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant,…
MORE THAN 600 Indian students are stranded in a university in Sumy, a city in north-eastern Ukraine, hoping they will soon be evacuated as firing and bombing left them “terrified”. Not a single Indian student from Sumy State University, located close to the Russian border has been evacuated so far,…
INDIA has stepped up efforts to evacuate its nationals from Ukraine as new Delhi confirmed on Tuesday (1) that a student had died in shelling in Ukraine.Prime minister Narendra Modi has directed the Indian Air Force to bring back stranded citizens, most of whom are students pursuing medicine in Ukraine’s…
AN INDIAN student was killed on Tuesday (1) in shelling in Ukraine, New Delhi said as it urged Moscow and Kyiv to secure safe passage for around 12,000 of its stranded nationals."With profound sorrow we confirm that an Indian student lost his life in shelling in Kharkiv this morning," Indian…
UN rights experts have called for an end to "misogynistic and sectarian" online attacks against a female Muslim Indian journalist, asking the authorities to investigate the harassment. Rana Ayyub, a fierce critic of prime minister Narendra Modi and the Hindu nationalist government of his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), has been…
MOB violence broke out in a south Indian city, leaving several people injured, following the murder of a Hindu activist over the weekend.Harsha, 26, a member of the hardline outfit Bhajrang Dal, was allegedly stabbed to death by a group in Shivamogga, about 300 kilometres (186 miles) from Bangalore, on…
Former Bollywood actor Zaira Wasim, who shot to fame after playing an important role in Aamir Khan’s Dangal (2016), has reacted to the ongoing hijab controversy that erupted in the Indian state of Karnataka a month ago at a college in Udupi. She said that hijab is not a choice…
INDIA'S home minister said he favoured students wearing uniforms in school rather than any religious attire, but that his position might change once a court decides on the merits of a ban on the hijab in schools in the state of Karnataka. The ban imposed by Karnataka on Feb. 5…
SCHOOLS reopened in southern India under tight security on Wednesday (16) with public gatherings banned following protests over Muslim girls wearing the hijab in classrooms. Tensions have been high in Karnataka state since late last year when at least four schoolgirls were prevented from wearing the Muslim headscarf, sparking protests…
A dispute over restrictions on the wearing of the hijab by female students in a southern Indian state has now reached India's most populous state of Uttar Pradesh, with a group of youngsters asking a college to ban the head covering. Authorities closed colleges in Karnataka in India's south last…
A state in southern India re-opened some schools on Monday (14) that had been closed following protests last week over female students not being allowed to wear hijabs, or head-to-toe burqas, in class. The issue, widely seen by India's Muslim minority community as a bid to sideline it by authorities…
AN Indian supplier to UK fashion brands has paid out an estimated £3 million in unpaid wages to about 80,000 workers after two years, according to a media report. India’s largest garment company Shahi Exports agreed to pay nine months of back pay in January, the Guardian reported. According to…
Facing a choice between her schooling and her religious beliefs, A.H. Almas says she had no choice at all. The 18-year-old Muslim pupil at the Women's Pre-University College in Udupi in majority-Hindu India has been wearing the Islamic headscarf since she was a child. But in December, authorities banned her…
NOBEL PEACE PRIZE winner Malala Yousafzai has said disallowing the hijab (Islamic headscarf) in schools is “horrifying”, referring to a row over the controversy in a south Indian state. Yousafzai's observation comes amid protests in Karnataka after a college in the temple town of Udupi banned the hijab. Six students…
Authorities in southern India ordered schools to shut on Tuesday (8) as protests intensified over a ban on Islamic headscarves that has outraged Muslim students. The stand-off in Karnataka state has galvanised fears among the minority community about what they say is increasing persecution under the Hindu nationalist government of…
RRR, one of the most-anticipated Indian films of 2022, will now enter cinemas on March 25, the makers announced on Monday. The Telugu-language period drama, whose dubbed versions will release in several other popular Indian languages including Hindi, stars Ram Charan. Jr NTR, Ajay Devgn, and Alia Bhatt in important…
LIVE PERFORMANCE THE FOUR ACES When: Friday February 11 Where: Symphony Hall, 8 Centenary Square, Broad Street, Birmingham B1 2EA What: Concert headlined by iconic artists Shankar Mahadevan, Ustad Zakir Hussain, Rakesh Chaurasia and Louis Banks, which mixes up a musical melting pot of world influences. They are supported by…
THE UK government said it is drilling down on India’s refusal to renew foreign funding licences of a large number of charities. Peers in the House of Lords of the UK Parliament debated the issue following a question raised by crossbench peer Lord Harries of Pentregarth on Thursday (6), asking…
INDIAN prime minister Narendra Modi on Thursday (23) asked chief minister of states to ramp up oxygen supplies and strengthen health infrastructure to contain a possible surge of Omicron cases ahead of the festive season, as gatherings in public spaces and markets grow in size. India has recorded 236 Omicron…
THE police in the southern Indian state of Karnataka have arrested four persons on grounds of helping a South African national to leave the country’s shores with a fake negative coronavirus test report, officials said on Tuesday (14). The South African man tested tested positive for the coronavirus when he…
MORE than 400,000 garment workers in India's Karnataka have not been paid the state’s legal minimum wage since April 2020, according to an international labour rights organisation that monitors working conditions in factories, reported The Guardian. The Worker Rights Consortium (WRC) estimates the total amount of unpaid wages so far…
India-born New Zealand cricketer Ajaz Patel is not sure if his rare 10-wickets-in-an-innings feat would prove to be life-changing but he is hoping that it would help him play 80-90 Tests for his adopted homeland. The 33-year-old Mumbai-born etched his name in history books last week when he took all…
GITA GOPINATH will take on a larger role in shaping the policies of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) from January 21 as its first deputy managing director. Her elevation as the second-ranking official of the global lender is a recognition of her “exceptional intellectual leadership” as its first woman chief…
INDIA expects the Omicron variant of coronavirus to cause less severe disease, the health ministry said on Friday (3). The reasons behind this are vaccinations and high prior exposure to the Delta variant that infected nearly 70 per cent of the population by July. Junior doctors protested to demand that…
India announced its first two cases of the Omicron Covid variant on Thursday, months after a devastating wave of the virus killed more than 200,000 people around the country. Top health ministry official Luv Agarwal said two men in southern Karnataka state, aged 66 and 46, had tested positive for…
KANNADIGAS living in the UK came together in London to celebrate the 66th Kannada Rajyotsava, the foundation day of Karnataka. Hosted on Saturday (13) by the KannadigaruUK, an organisation of Kannada-speaking Indian diaspora in the UK, the event featured food from Karnataka and performances by local talents who entertained the…
BBC News has launched a new ‘disinformation unit’ in India for uncovering, analysing and reporting the spread of fake news. A team of dedicated journalists will focus on highlighting false information, debunking viral social media content and looking into the way and reason for the spread under the new initiative.…
A MUSLIM woman from Kerala in southern India, who paints pictures of Sri Krishna, has said she wants to be a symbol of communal harmony at a time when tensions among religions are rising. Jasna Salim, 28, from Koyilandy near Calicut, has made more than 500 paintings of little Krishna,…
KANNADA star Puneeth Rajkumar passed away on Friday (29) afternoon after suffering a heart attack. He was 46. The youngest son of the late super star Rajkumar was taken to Vikram Hospital in Bengaluru this morning in an “unresponsive” condition. Later, in the afternoon, Karnataka chief minister Basavaraj Bommai said…
Indian prime minister Narendra Modi will meet Pope Francis in Rome for the first time this weekend when he visits for the G20 summit, officials said Thursday, in what could be a thorny encounter. Activists say that religious minorities in Hindu-majority India have faced increased levels of discrimination and violence…
Veteran screenwriter and lyricist Javed Akhtar on Thursday said that he fails to understand how a section of people took offence over the name of clothing brand FabIndia’s latest collection 'Jashn-e-Riwaaz' as the Urdu phrase simply meant “a celebration of tradition”. The brand was accused of “defacing” the Hindu festival…
At the 67th National Film Awards event held on Monday in New Delhi, Vice President of India M Venkaiah Naidu honoured Tamil Superstar Rajinikanth with 51th Dadasaheb Phalke Award. The event is organised by the Directorate of Film Festivals, which comes under the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. Rajinikanth, whose…
AFTER the cost of fuel and edible oils hit record highs, Indian consumers are likely to be further squeezed by a rally in onion prices after heavy rainfall in the country's key growing regions damaged the summer-sown crop and delayed winter crop planting. Onions are also a politically-sensitive commodity, with…
THE season eight of Pro Kabaddi League (PKL) will begin on December 22 in Bengaluru and will be held without spectators due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The Player Auctions for the season were conducted on August 29-31 in Mumbai. Mashal Sports, orgainsers of the event, said that keeping the health…
The reopening of a coal mine this year near the central Indian village of Chichordi rekindled farmer Dilip Madre's hopes he would finally be compensated for the ruin of his once-bountiful turmeric field and be able to buy a bigger farm further away. A decade after mining began in his…
A few days ago, in an interview, writer Javed Akhtar drew parallels between the Taliban and Hindu extremists. However, now in a statement given to PTI, he has expressed the views. In the emailed statement, Akhtar said, "India can never become like Afghanistan because Indians by nature, are not extremists;…
AS Bhupendra Patel took charge as the chief minister of Gujarat from Vijay Rupani, there was speculation as to what led to the change of guard in the western Indian state. The perceived “mismanagement” of Covid-19 by the Rupani government and his differences with other leaders of the ruling Bharatiya…
SENIOR BJP leader Bhupendra Patel will become the next chief minister of Gujarat. He will succeed Vijay Rupani who resigned on Saturday (11) in a surprise move. Patel along with Rupani and state BJP president CR Paatil handed over the government formation claim to governor Acharya Devvrat on Sunday evening.…
Population of big cats in forests and reserves has doubled in 12 years CONSERVATION experts in India have praised the country’s efforts in protecting tigers as figures show a rise in the population of big cats across reserves and forests. The number of tigers in the wild has more than…
VIJAY Rupani resigned as the chief minister of India’s state of Gujarat on Saturday (11), more than a year before the state goes to the polls. Elections are due in December 2022 to elect 182 members of the Gujarat assembly where prime minister Narendra Modi’s party BJP has been in…
INDIAN authorities are restricting major religious festivals that start this week and attract huge crowds, warning that a new Covid-19 wave had already begun in the financial capital Mumbai. State governments across the country of 1.3 billion people, which saw a devastating coronavirus surge in April-May, are clamping down on…
HE appeared in his very first India series in the long format as a tragic hero. Last November, Mohammed Siraj was in Australia, expecting to bag the Test cap for his country. The quarantine rule was at play at the height of the coronavirus pandemic and amid the restrictions, the…
DURING the Covid-19 pandemic in India, there were some doctors and healthcare staff who went beyond their line of duty to mitigate the pain of fellow citizens. Eastern Eye looks at some of them who made a difference to the communities they serve: 1. Dr Rajendra Bharud Doctor-turned IAS officer…
HOW DR ATINDRA SARVADIKAR KEEPS INDIAN TRADITION ALIVE A NEW wave of exciting artists are keeping classical traditions rooted in centuries of history alive in an Indian musical landscape increasingly dominated by commercial genres such as Bollywood, bhangra, pop and western contemporary. One of these heroic talents is trained singer…
THE Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT), which represents 40,000 trade organizations in the country, will launch an e-commerce portal for customers, its national secretary told Eastern Eye. In an exclusive interview, Sumit Agarwal revealed around 100,000 traders in the country have already registered and 10,000 of them have created…
INDIA’S most populous state, Uttar Pradesh announced a draft law for population control on Saturday (10), as per which those having more than two children will be devoid of any special concessions or benefits. It proposes denying government jobs, promotions, subsidies and the right to contest local elections to anyone…
PRIME minister Narendra Modi is likely to make the first cabinet reshuffle in his second term in office soon and the exercise could see the induction of more ministers, sources said on Monday (5). According to the sources, the central cabinet reshuffle is likely to take place keeping in mind…
AN aviation firm has carried out the first tests in India of longer-range drone deliveries, as hopes grow that they could deliver medicines as well as Covid-19 vaccines to remote areas. Greater use of drones could be a game-changer for medical services in the South Asian nation's hard-to-reach rural areas…
HOME furnishing retailer IKEA on Thursday (17) announced launch of its e-Commerce services and mobile shopping app in Bengaluru, India. The Swedish brand will offer a range of 8,000 home furnishing products and solutions to consumers. The company that already has online presence in Hyderabad, Mumbai, Pune, Ahmedabad, Surat, and…
US tech giant Microsoft on Wednesday (16) announced that Satya Nadella, 53, will be its new chairman, replacing John Thompson. The board's independent directors unanimously elected Nadella to the role of board chair, and unanimously elected John W Thompson as the lead independent director, Microsoft said. Nadella, who took over…
After making a mark in the international markets, the show MasterChef came to India in 2010. We have already seen the six seasons of MasterChef India, and now, the show is all set to get its multiple regional versions. A few weeks ago, it was announced that actor Vijay Sethupathi…
RASHTRIYA Lok Dal (RLD) chief Jayant Chaudhary on Sunday (13) said the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) alleged “apathy” towards protesting farmers will make it pay in next year’s key Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh. He said "artificial" issues like love jihad and cow terror will not save the saffron…
A leading charity has joined efforts in combating the Covid-19 pandemic and alleviating the suffering in India during the second wave. BAPS Charities, through its global network and partner hospitals, has so far supported the treatment of over 3,800 victims to full recovery from Covid-19 in the country, a statement…
THE Competition Commission of India (CCI) has relaunched an investigation into Amazon’s selling practices in the country after an Indian court dismissed pleas by Amazon and the Walmart-owned Flipkart to quash the investigation. Originally announced in January 2020, it will also examine the company’s £1 billion-a-year joint venture with UK…
AN Indian state is planning to send a a legal notice to Google after the search giant showed the state's official language as the "ugliest language in India". The southern Indian state of Karnataka said that it will sue Google as a search with these keywords on Thursday (3) showed…
INDIA on Wednesday (2) reported a daily rise in new coronavirus infections of 132,788 cases over the past 24 hours, while deaths rose by 3,207. The South Asian nation's tally of infections now stands at 28.3 million, while the death toll has reached 335,102, health ministry data showed. The daily…
INDIA reported on Tuesday (1) its lowest daily rise in new coronavirus infections since April 8 at 127,510 cases over the past 24 hours, while deaths rose by 2,795. The new Covid-19 cases is the lowest in 54 days, while the daily positivity rate dropped to 6.62 per cent. The…
INDIA reported on Monday (31) its lowest daily rise in new coronavirus infections since April 11 at 152,734 cases over the past 24 hours, while deaths rose by 3,128. The South Asian nation's tally of infections now stands at 28 million, while the death toll has reached 329,100, health ministry…
INDIA recorded a single-day rise of 1,65,553 new Covid-19 cases, the lowest in 46 days, taking the country's infection tally to 2,78,94,800, according to union health ministry data on Sunday (30). The daily positivity declined to 8.02 per cent, remaining below the 10 per cent mark for the sixth consecutive…
INDIAN authorities Friday (28) announced a tentative easing of the lockdown in the capital New Delhi as coronavirus infections fall in major cities after weeks of restrictions. Rural areas of the country are now seeing the brunt of a surge in cases that has overwhelmed the health care system and…
THE single day rise in coronavirus infections in India fell below the two-lakh mark for the second time this month. The total tally of Covid-19 cases in the country has climbed to 2,75,55,457 out of which 2,48,93,410 patients have recuperated, according to the union health ministry data on Friday (28).…
INDIA'S recovery rate went up to 90 per cent while daily Covid-19 infections of 2,11,298 took the total tally to 2,73,69,093, according to the union health ministry data on Thursday (27). The death toll due to Covid rose to 3,15,235 with 3,847 new fatalities being reported in a span of…
THE daily rise in coronavirus cases in India remained below the three lakh-mark for the sixth consecutive day, with 2.57 lakh new cases recorded in a single day, the union health ministry said on Saturday (22). With the fresh cases, India's tally of Covid-19 cases climbed to 2,62,89,290. The death…
INDIA reported on Friday (21) 259,551 new coronavirus infections over the last 24 hours, while deaths rose by 4,209. The South Asian nation's infection tally stands at 26.03 million, with a death toll of 291,331, health ministry data showed. New Covid-19 cases remained below 300,000-mark for the fifth consecutive day…
MORE than 20.55 lakh Covid-19 tests were conducted in a span of 24 hours, the highest-ever conducted in a single day in India, while the daily positivity rate stands at 13.44 per cent, the union health ministry said on Thursday (20). Cumulatively, 20,55,010 tests were conducted on Wednesday (19) in…
CYCLONE Tauktae, likely to be the strongest to hit the region since 1998, is expected to make landfall tonight in the covid-battered state of Gujarat. The cyclone would subsequently move northwestwards and is likely to affect the Pakistani port city of Karachi as well, a statement by the India Meteorological…
THE National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) has earmarked 53 teams to tackle possible after-effects of Cyclone Tauktae that is developing in the Arabian Sea, a senior officer said on Friday NDRF director general SN Pradhan said in a tweet that these teams are being deployed in the coastal regions of…
INDIA recorded more than 4,000 Covid-19 deaths for a second straight day on Thursday (13), while infections stayed below 400,000 for a fourth day, though the virus has become rampant in rural areas where cases can go unreported due to a lack of testing. Experts remain unsure when numbers will…
AS many as 24 patients including 23 with Covid-19 died in Karnataka's Chamarajanagar due to alleged oxygen shortage in the district hospital in the last 24 hours, officials said. Family members of the dead also staged a demonstration at the hospital and alleged there was a shortage of oxygen while…
SEVERAL Indian states have run out of Covid-19 vaccines a day before a planned widening of a nationwide inoculation drive, authorities said on Friday (30), as new infections in the crisis-hit country surged to another daily record. India is the world's biggest producer of vaccines but does not have enough…
VITAL medical supplies poured into India on Tuesday (27) as hospitals starved of life-saving oxygen and beds turned away coronavirus patients, while a surge in infections pushed the death toll towards 200,000. A shipment from Britain, including 100 ventilators and 95 oxygen concentrators, arrived in Delhi, said Reuters partner ANI,…
New infections at record for fifth day Neighbouring Bangladesh closes border for 14 days Tech hub of Bengaluru faces lockdown from Tuesday INDIA's new coronavirus infections hit a record peak for a fifth day on Monday (26). The southern state of Karnataka, home to the tech city of Bengaluru, ordered…
INTRODUCTION The Chennai Super Kings (CSK) is a foundation cricket group arranged in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. They play in the Indian Premier League (IPL). Set up in 2008, the gathering played its home matches at the M. A. Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai. The gathering was suspended for two-years from the…
Delhi hospitals issued desperate appeals for oxygen on Friday and 13 Covid-19 patients died in a fire, as India's healthcare system buckles under a new wave of infections. The surge, blamed on a new virus variant and recent "super spreader" public events, brought 330,000 new infections -- a world record…
SOCIAL MEDIA giant Facebook has signed a deal to buy renewable energy in India from a local firm's wind power project, the US firm's first such deal in the South Asian nation, the companies said on Thursday (15). The 32 megawatt wind power project, located in southern Karnataka state, is…
By Murtuza Iqbal Ugadi is the New Year's Day for the States of Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka in India. Well, on the festival, the makers of many Telugu films have unveiled the first look posters and new posters of their movies. Check them out here… RRR Wishing everyone a prosperous…
DIVERSIFIED natural resources firm Vedanta Resources has said that it contributed $4.66 billion to the public exchequer in India during 2019-20. It added that its overall contributions to public exchequers of various countries stood at $4.7bn during the period, Vedanta Resources said in its latest report. "Consistent with our commitment to…
SOME of India's big cities stare at stricter lockdowns and curbs as daily infections on Saturday (3) hit a six-month high. The second wave of the virus in the country third-worst hit by the pandemic is seeing a surge in number of positive cases being reported in the last month.…
INDIA reported 81,466 new Covid-19 cases on Friday (2), the highest daily number in six months, as several states are hit by a second wave of the pandemic. The total number of cases have now surged to 12.3 million, making India the third-most hit country from the virus after the…
India's richest state, Maharashtra, is considering imposing a strict lockdown this week after recording the highest one-day jump in coronavirus infections of any Indian state since last March, officials said on Sunday. Maharashtra tightened travel restrictions and imposed night curfews as it reported 40,414 new coronavirus cases on Sunday, almost…
INDIA reported its most Covid-19 cases and deaths in months on Monday (22), on the first anniversary of the start of a chaotic nationwide lockdown that left many people jobless and shrank the economy. Authorities reintroduced some curbs to slow the spread of the virus, especially in the western state…
Nineteen states and union territories in India have not reported any death due to COVID-19 in a span of 24 hours, while India's active cases stood at 146,907 accounting for 1.33 per cent of the total number of infections, the union health ministry said on Wednesday. A total of 13,742…
INDIA announced an expansion of its vaccination programme on Wednesday(24) but warned that breaches of coronavirus protocols could worsen an infection surge in many states. Nearly a month after the health minister declared that Covid-19 had been contained, states such as Maharashtra in the west and Kerala in the south…
A NEW report has revealed that India is likely to be a priority country for the UK post-Covid which will result in an enhanced economic partnership. The 'Britain Meets India' report by the Confederation of Indian Industry(CII) and Grant Thornton Bharat has stated that FDI inflow from the UK to India…
More than 1,200 Indian garment workers who were fired by a H&M supplier in southern India during coronavirus lockdown last year are set to be rehired in a rare win for labour unions. Garment manufacturer Gokaldas Exports Limited has agreed to re-employ 1,257 workers - mostly women - who were…
New Delhi and other major cities across India on Thursday (31) ordered curfews for New Year's Eve as they stepped up efforts to head off a new coronavirus wave. In the capital, the curfew would run for two days from 11:00 pm until 6:00 am with gatherings limited to five…
Apple Inc has placed supplier Wistron Corp on probation, saying on Saturday it would not award the Taiwanese contract manufacturer new business until it addressed the way workers were treated at its southern India plant. Early findings of an Apple audit in the wake of violence at the Wistron plant…
BRITISH prime minister Boris Johnson will travel to India in January, his first bilateral visit since taking office, to try to strengthen trade and investment ties and work together on tackling climate change, his office said on Tuesday(15). He also accepted his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi's invitation to be the…
US president-elect Joe Biden has named Indian-American Dr Vivek Murthy as the next surgeon general, reports said. UK-born Dr Murthy held that post during the Obama administration, but had to leave abruptly during the Trump administration. Dr Murthy,43, is one of the three co-chairs of the Biden's Covid-19 advisory board.…
US president-elect Joe Biden’s 13-member Covid task force team has two Indian-Americans - Vivek Murthy and Atul Gawande. Murthy is the co-chair of the unit. Biden has named more than 20 Indian-Americans as members, including three as team leads, to his agency review teams (ARTs) that will evaluate the operations…
INDIAN-AMERICAN physician and former Surgeon General Dr Vivek Murthy will co-chair coronavirus task force created by the US president-elect Joe Biden. Biden will convene a meeting of the body on Monday(9) which will also co-chaired by former Food and Drug Administration Commissioner David Kessler and Yale University Associate Professor Marcella…
The beach might not be the first thing you associate with India (unless we’re talking about Goa, of course). However, you might be surprised. India boasts more than 7,500km of coastline - so you’d be safe in assuming there are quite a few spectacular beaches in there. Whether you want…
By Pramod Thomas A subsidiary of India's Tata Group pulled a jewellery advertisement of a Hindu-Muslim family celebrating a baby shower after social media criticism, with some posting "Love Jihad". Love Jihad or Romeo Jihad is an conspiracy theory alleging that Muslim men target women belonging to non-Muslim communities for…
Travellers from Dubai and the UK were primary sources of COVID-19 importations into India, according to an analytical study done by Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Mandi. According to the research, which has been published in the Journal of Travel Medicine, COVID-19 got induced into Indian states mainly due to…
INDIAN legendary playback singer S P Balasubrahmanyam, popularly known as SPB, died on Friday(25) at a private hospital in the southern city of Chennai. He was 74. He was hospitalised in August after contracting the coronavirus. Though he was well initially he was put on a ventilator and ECMO support…
ONION prices in Bangladesh jumped by more than 50 per cent on Tuesday(15), following a ban on exports by largest supplier India after its crop was damaged and harvesting delayed by excessive rain, industry officials said. The surprise move, which took immediate effect on Monday(14), could help cut prices in…
INDIA counted another record high of new coronavirus infections Thursday (20) as it ramped up testing to more than 900,000 a day. The 69,652 new cases pushed India's total past 2.8 million, of which 2 million have recovered, the health ministry said. The country also recorded 977 coronavirus fatalities in…
THE UK government launched a £3 million innovation challenge fund in India to support scientists in academia and industry to tackle global issues such as the Covid-19 and climate change on Monday (17). The fund invites tech innovators with connections to the AI-Data cluster in Karnataka and the future mobility…
At least three people were killed in the southern Indian city of Bengaluru when police clashed with hundreds of Muslims who attacked a police station and set fire to vehicles during a protest over a Facebook post considered offensive to Islam, police said Wednesday. Senior police officer Kamal Pant said…
AT LEAST three people died in clashes with police in the Indian city of Bengaluru overnight after a Facebook post offensive to Muslims sparked protests in which a police station was attacked, and a politician's house and vehicles were torched. Unable to quell protesters using batons and tear gas, besieged…
INDIA's total coronavirus cases reached 968,876 on Thursday (16) with a record 32,695 new cases reported in the last 24 hours. The death toll went up to 24,915, including 606 fatalities in a day. As many as 20,783 patients were cured on Wednesday (15), taking the recovery rate to 63.25…
From factory floors in India to the warehouses of Cambodia, garment workers for global brands say the collapse in demand triggered by the coronavirus is being used as a cover to break their unions. The crippling effect of the pandemic has seen orders worth billions of dollars cancelled across manufacturing…
INDIA’S Bank of Baroda has sued UAE-headquartered NMC Health group’s owner Bavaguthu Raghuram Shetty for allegedly breaching an agreement to provide 16 assets as collateral for debts, a news report has revealed. As financial turbulence rocked his empire, the Abu Dhabi-based Indian entrepreneur had a meeting with Bank of Baroda…
HOW THE ACCLAIMED BOLLYWOOD ACTOR BECAME INDIA’S HERO DURING LOCKDOWN by ASJAD NAZIR HE MAY have made an impact playing negative roles onscreen, but Sonu Sood has been the biggest Bollywood hero during this coronavirus lockdown. The acclaimed actor has worked tirelessly and risked his own safety to send many…
INDIA reported the highest single-day Covid-19 deaths at 507 on Wednesday (1) and fresh cases stand at 18,653. The total number of cases in the country jumped to 585,493 with 17,400 deaths. Maharashtra, Delhi and Tamil Nadu accounting for over 70 per cent of the fatalities, according to the health ministry. For…
INDIA reported 17,296 Covid-19 cases on Friday (26), the country's highest single-day tally so far. With this India's tally jumped to 490,401, and the death toll climbed to 15,301 with 407 new fatalities. India registered over 14,000 cases for the seventh day in a row and witnessed a surge of 299,866…
An Indian judge faced an outpouring of anger on Thursday (25) after he cast doubt on a woman's rape claim, calling her description of events "unbecoming" and granting her alleged attacker protection from arrest. Krishna S. Dixit, a high court judge in the southern state of Karnataka, said he found…
INDIA reported nearly 16,000 new Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours. With this the total tally surged to 456,183 on Wednesday (24). A total of 10,495 Covid-19 patients have recovered in a day, the health ministry said. The country reported 15,968 positive cases and 465 deaths in the last…
INDIA's Covid-19 cases reached 425,282 on Monday (22) with 14,821 new cases reported in the last 24 hours. The death toll rose to 13,699 with 445 new fatalities, according to the health ministry. The country crossed the 400,000-mark on Sunday (21) eight days after recording 300,000 Covid-19 cases and has…
INDIA on Saturday (20) saw another record spike of 14,516 new Covid-19 cases in a single-day, pushing the tally to 3,95,048, while the death toll rose to 12,948 with 375 new fatalities, according to the health ministry. The number of recoveries continued to surge with 213,830 patients cured so far,…
INDIA saw another record spike of 13,586 new Covid-19 cases in a single-day on Friday (19), pushing the tally to 380,532, while the death toll rose to 12,573 with 336 new fatalities, according to the health ministry. The number of recoveries crossed the 200,000-mark and stands at 204,710, while there…
INDIA's official coronavirus death toll leapt by more than 2,000 to reach 11,903 on Wednesday (17) as Germany advised its nationals to consider leaving the country because of growing health risks. Mumbai revised its toll up by 862 to 3,165 because of unspecified accounting "discrepancies" while New Delhi saw a…
INDIA reported its biggest single-day jump in Covid-19 cases on Saturday (13), adding 11,458 confirmed infections and taking total count to 308,993,, according to data from the health ministry. The death toll rose to 8,884 with 386 new fatalities, it said. The country has 145,779 active cases while 154,329 people…
THE death toll due to Covid-19 rose to 8,102 and the number of cases climbed to 286,579 in India after the country registered the highest single-day spike of 357 fatalities and 9,996 cases on Thursday (11). According to the health ministry, the number of recoveries remained more than the active…
INDIA's Covid-19 cases climbed to 276,583 on Wednesday (10) with 9,985 new cases reported in the last 24 hours. The country registered 279 fatalities in a day. The death toll now stands at 7,745, the health ministry said. India is the fifth worst-hit nation by the Covid-19 pandemic after the…
THE death count due to Covid-19 in India has nearly doubled in the last 17 days. The number of infections is now twice what it was 16 days ago, shows the health ministry data. The country could hit the 300,000-mark by Friday. The death toll due to Covid-19 rose to…
THE death toll due to the Covid-19 pandemic in India rose to 7,135 and the number of cases climbed to 256,611, after it registered 206 fatalities and a record single-day spike of 9,983 cases till Monday (8), the health ministry said. Now, India is the fifth worst-hit nation by the…
INDIA went past Italy to become the sixth worst-hit nation by the Covid-19 pandemic with the country registering a record single-day spike of 9,887 cases which pushed the nationwide tally to 236,657. India's death toll due to Covid-19 rose to 6,642 with a record increase of 294 deaths in the…
NHS CONSULTANT SOUGHT SOLACE IN SPIRITUALITY AS HE BATTLED LIFE-THREATENING VIRUS by S NEERAJ KRISHNA DR NEERAJ PATIL has had his hands full since recovering from Covid-19 in April. He was back at the frontline as an A&E consultant with Causeway Hospital in Northern Ireland as soon as he completed…
INDIA saw a record single-day jump of 9,851 Covid-19 cases and 273 deaths on Friday (5), pushing the nationwide infection tally to 2,26,770 and the death toll to 6,348, according to the health ministry. India stood seventh among the nations worst hit by the Covid-19 pandemic after the US, Brazil,…
Robin Uthappa, a key member of the 2007 World T20 winning Indian team, has revealed that he battled clinical depression and suicidal thoughts for nearly two years during his career, a phase when cricket was perhaps the only thing that kept him from "jumping off a balcony". The big-hitting top-order…
THE Covid-19 cases in India saw a record single-day jump of 9,304 cases on Thursday (4) pushing the total tally to 2,16,919, while the death toll climbed to 6,075 with 260 new fatalities, according to the health ministry. India stood seventh among the nations worst hit by the Covid-19 pandemic…
INDIA registered a record jump of 8,909 Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours, taking the tally to 207,615 on Wednesday (3), while the toll rose to 5,815 with 217 more deaths, the health ministry said. The number of active cases mounted to 101,497 and 100,302 people have recovered, while…
THE death toll due to Covid-19 rose to 5,394 and the number of cases climbed to 1,90,535 in India on Monday (1). The country reported record 230 deaths and 8,392 cases in the past 24 hours, the health ministry said. India is now seventh among the nations worst hit by…
THE death toll due to COVID-19 rose to 4,531 and the number of cases climbed to 1,58,333 in India on Thursday (28). The country reported 6,566 cases and 194 deaths in the last 24 hours, the health ministry said. The number of active COVID-19 cases stand at 86,110 while 67,691 people…
THE death toll due to COVID-19 rose to 4,337 and the total number of cases climbed to 1,51,767 in India on Wednesday (27). The country has reported 170 deaths and 6,387 new cases in the last 24 hours, the health ministry said The number of active COVID-19 cases stands at…
INIDA, the second largest populous country after China, reported 6,535 new COVID-19 cases and 146 fresh deaths in the last 24 hours. With this, the number of cases climbed to 1,45,380 and the death toll reached 4,167 on Tuesday (26). India now stands 10th in terms of number of infections…
INDIA registered biggest single day spike of COVID-19 cases for the fourth consecutive day on Monday (25) with 6,977 new infections, reported in the last 24 hours, taking the country's tally to 1,38,845. The deadly virus has claimed 4,021 lives in the country, the health ministry said. A total 154 deaths…
THE COVID-19 cases in India saw the biggest spike for the second consecutive day on Saturday (23) with 6,654 new infections in the last 24 hours, taking the tally to 125,101. With 137 fresh deaths, the toll rose to 3,720, the health ministry said. The active cases rose to 69,597,…
THE death toll due to COVID-19 rose to 3,435 and the number of cases to 1,12,359 in India on Thursday (21), registering an increase of 132 deaths and 5,609 cases in the last 24 hours, according to the health ministry. The number of active COVID-19 cases stood at 63,624, while…
THE death toll due to COVID-19 rose to 3,303 and the number of cases climbed to 1,06,750 in India on Wednesday (20), registering an increase of 140 deaths and a record spike of 5,611 cases in the last 24 hours, according to the health ministry. The number of active COVID-19…
INDIA's COVID-19 cases touched 100,000 mark on Tuesday (19). It took 64 days for the country to reach this level from 100 cases. India reported its first infection on January 30 in the Southern state of Kerala. The death toll due to COVID-19 rose to 3,163 and the number of…
THE death toll due to COVID-19 rose to 3,029 and the number of cases to 96,169 in the country on Monday (18), registering an increase of 157 deaths and a record jump of 5,242 cases in the last 24 hours, according to the health ministry. The number of active COVID-19…
THE death toll due to COVID-19 rose to 2,752 in India and the number of cases climbed to 85,940 on Saturday (16). The country reported 103 deaths and 3,970 cases in the last 24 hours, said the health ministry. The country now crossed China's tally in total number of infections.…
THE death toll due to COVID-19 rose to 2,649 in India and the number of cases climbed to 81,970 on Friday (15), the health ministry said. The country has reported 100 new deaths and 3,967 new cases due to coronavirus in the last 24 hours. India, second largest populous country…
AS India is all set to enter into the fourth phase of its lockdown imposed to contain the spread of COVID-19, the number of infections has jumped to 74,281 on Wednesday (13), the health ministry said. The deadly virus has claimed 2,415 lives so far in the country. India has…
THE death toll due to COVID-19 rose to 2,293 and the number of cases climbed to 70,756 in the country on Tuesday (12). The country reported 3,604 new cases and 87 fresh deaths in the past 24 hours, said the health ministry. The number of active COVID-19 cases in the…
INDIA on Monday (11) registered a record 4,213 new COVID-19 cases in 24 hours in the country. With this the number of cases jumped to 67,152. As many as 2,206 people have died of the disease, with 97 fresh fatalities in a day, the health ministry said. The number of…
AS India enters the last week of its official lockdown imposed to contain the spread of the COVID-19, the country reported nearly 60,000 cases as on Saturday (9). India reported its first case of infection in the Southern state of Kerala on January 30. The death toll due to the…
The death toll due to COVID-19 rose to 1,886 and the number of cases climbed to 56,342 in India on Friday (8). The country reported 3,390 new cases and 103 deaths in the last 24 hours, according to the health ministry. The number of active COVID-19 cases stood at 37,916. While…
INIDA registers drastic increase in COVID-19 cases in the country in the past few days. The death toll due to COVID-19 in the country rose to 1,783 while the number of cases climbed to 52,952 on Thursday (7), registering an increase of 89 deaths and 3,561 cases in a day,…
THE death toll due to COVID-19 rose to 1,694 and the number of cases climbed to 49,391 in India on Wednesday (6), registering an increase of 126 deaths and 2,958 cases in the last 24 hours, the health ministry said. This is the second continuous day that the country reports…
THE death toll due to COVID-19 rose to 1,568 and the number of cases climbed to 46,433 in India on Tuesday (5), the health ministry said. The number of active cases stood at 32,138, while 12,726 people have recovered and one patient has migrated, it said. The total number of…
THE death toll due to the novel coronavirus pandemic rose to 1,147 with 72 more fatalities and the number of cases climbed to 35,043 in India on Friday (1), the health ministry said. The ongoing lockdown in the country is set to end on Sunday (3). The active COVID-19 cases…
INDIA is likely to extend the lockdown in hotspots as death toll due to novel coronavirus pandemic rose to 1,074 on Thursday (30). Only three days left to end the 40-day lockdown announced by the country to contain the spread of the deadly virus. The country reported 66 more fatalities in…
THE death toll due to COVID-19 rose to 1,007 and the number of cases climbed to 31,332 in India on Wednesday (29), according to the health ministry. The states have recorded over 1,897 cases in last 24 hours, highest number of fresh cases reported in a single day since the…
THE death toll due to COVID-19 rose to 775 and the number of cases climbed to 24,506 in the country on Saturday (25), according to the health ministry. The number of active cases stood at 18,668 while 5,062 people were cured and discharged, and one patient has migrated, the ministry…
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INDIA's death toll due to COVID-19 rose to 718 and the number of cases to 23,077 on Friday (24), said the health ministry. A total of 32 deaths were reported since Thursday evening, of which 14 fatalities were from Maharashtra, nine from Gujarat, three from Uttar Pradesh and two each from…
INDIA's health ministry on Thursday (23) said that the country's total COVID-19 cases have jumped to 21,393 with 681 deaths. A total of 29 deaths were reported since Wednesday evening, of which 18 fatalities were reported from Maharashtra, eight from Gujarat, two from Rajasthan and one from Delhi, the ministry…
THE death toll due to COVID-19 rose to 590 in India and the number of cases climbed to 18,601 on Tuesday (21), according to the health ministry. The number of active COVID-19 cases stood at 14,759 while 3,251 people have been cured and discharged, and one patient has migrated, the…
THE death toll due to COVID-19 rose to 543 and the number of cases climbed to 17,265 in the country on Monday (20), according to the health ministry. The number of active COVID-19 cases stood at 14, 175 while 2,546 people have been cured and discharged, and one patient has…
Gujarat in western India became the sixth state to cross the 1,000 mark in COVID-19 cases in the country. The number of coronavirus positive cases in Gujarat rose to 1,272 after 176 new cases were reported on Saturday (18), a health department official said. Ahmedabad reported 142 new COVID-19…
THE death toll due to COVID-19 rose to 437 and the number of cases to 13,387 in India on Friday (17), according to the health ministry. While the number of active COVID-19 cases stood at 11,201, as many as 1,748 people have been cured and discharged, and one had migrated,…
THE death toll due to COVID-19 rose to 414 in India on Thursday (16) and the number of cases stands at 12,380 , said health ministry. While the number of active COVID-19 cases is 10,477, as many as 1,488 people have been cured and discharged and one had migrated, it…
THE death toll due to COVID-19 in India rose to 377 while the number of cases climbed to 11,439 on Wednesday (15), according to the health ministry. As many as 24 deaths have been reported since Tuesday evening, of which 18 were reported from Maharashtra, two each from Delhi and…
The death toll due to COVID-19 pandemic rose to 308 on Monday (13) in India after 35 new fatalities were reported, while the number of cases climbed to 9,152, according to the health ministry. The number of active COVID-19 cases stood at 7,987, as many as 856 people have been…
THE death toll due to COVID-19 rose to 239 and the number of cases to 7,447 in India on Saturday (11), according to the health ministry. The 7,447 figure includes 71 foreign nationals. The death toll on Friday evening was 206. While the number of active COVID-19 cases is 6,565,…
Despite India reporting over 205 COVID-19 deaths in last one month, the country's death rate of about three per cent is lower than the global rate, and also much lower than several European countries like the UK, Italy and Spain, according to the analysis of official data. India had reported…
IN a relief to liquor baron Vijay Mallya, the London High Court has deferred hearings on a plea by the SBI-led consortium of Indian banks, seeking the indebted tycoon to be declared bankrupt to enable them recover a loan of around £1.145 billion from him. Justice Michael Briggs of the…
The death toll due to COVID-19 rose to 199 in India and the number of cases stands at 6,412 on Friday (10), according to the health ministry. While the number of active COVID-19 cases is 5,709, as many as 503 people were cured and discharged and one had migrated, it…
THE death toll due to the novel coronavirus rose to 166 in India and the number of cases stands at 5,734 on Thursday (9), according to the health ministry. As many as 17 new deaths have been reported in the last 24 hours across the country, the ministry said. The…
THE death toll due to the novel coronavirus rose to 149 and the number of cases to 5,194 in India on Wednesday (8), according to the health ministry. While the number of active COVID-19 cases is 4,643, as many as 401 people were cured and discharged and one had migrated,…
INDIA’s health ministry on Monday (6) said that 109 people in the country have died of COVID-19 so far and there are 4,067 confirmed cases. The number of active COVID-19 cases stands at 3,666, as many as 291 people were cured and discharged, and one has migrated, it said. The…
THE number of COVID-19 cases climbed to 1,965 in the country on Thursday (2) while the death toll rose to 50, according to the Union health ministry. The number of active COVID-19 cases stands at 1,764, of which 150 people were either cured or discharged and one migrated to another…
THE number of novel coronavirus cases in India rose to 1,637 on Wednesday (1), including 1,466 active cases and 38 deaths, according to health ministry. Two doctors of Delhi's Safdarjung Hospital test positive for Covid-19 As many as 132 people were either cured or discharged and one had migrated to…
The number of COVID-19 cases climbed to 1,071 in India on Monday (30), while the death toll rose to 29, according to the union health ministry. The number of active COVID-19 cases stood at 942, while 99 people were either cured or discharged and one had migrated, the ministry stated.…
THE number of COVID-19 cases climbed to 873 in India on Saturday (28) with the death toll rising to 19, according to the Health Ministry. The two fresh deaths occurred in Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh. Thus, deaths have so far been reported from Maharashtra (5), Gujarat (3), Karnataka (2), Madhya…
THE death toll due to COVID-19 rose to 17 in the country on Friday (27) and the number of coronavirus cases climbed to 724, according to the Health Ministry. In its updated figures, the ministry stated that four deaths were reported from Maharashtra while Gujarat had registered three deaths. Karnataka…
THE number of coronavirus cases climbed to 649 in India on Thursday (26) and the death toll due to COVID-19 rose to 13, with one death reported each from Gujarat, Tamil Nadu and Madhya Pradesh, according to the Health Ministry. Goa featured for the first time in the chart prepared…
THE total number of COVID-19 cases in India has reached 500 and the death toll touched 10 on Tuesday (24). Indian government on Tuesday asked the states and union territories to clamp curfew wherever necessary in the wake of people defying lockdown orders in several parts of the country. Besides,…
India reported two COVID-19 deaths on Monday, taking the death toll to nine, and the number of cases climbed to 468 after 95 people tested positive for coronavirus, the highest jump in one day, as Maharashtra and Punjab were put under statewide curfews, the rest of the country in lockdown…
In an effort to stop the spread of coronavirus, India has decided to suspend all inter-state buses, passenger trains and metro services across the country till March 31. However, goods trains are exempted. Besides, 80 districts where COVID-19 cases were reported have been completely locked down. These are in Uttar…
THE number of COVID-19 cases in India has increased to 415 on Monday (23) from 360 cases on Sunday evening, , the health ministry said. The figure includes 41 foreign nationals and seven deaths. In the wake of the alarming situation, Indian government on Monday asked state governments to strictly…
India reported one more coronavirus death on Sunday (22), taking the death toll to five even as the railways announced suspension of all its passenger services from March 22 midnight to March 31 midnight to help check the spread of the virus. Bihar also reported its first death due to…
The Indian state of Tamil Nadu on Friday (29) took the rare step of closing its borders with several neighbouring states because of the coronavirus pandemic. The Tamil Nadu government shut the borders with Kerala, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh states, which have reported a growing number of coronavirus cases. While…
INDIA reported fourth death due to coronavirus from Punjab, northern India. The 72-year old victim had a history of travelling to Germany and Italy, health ministry said on Thursday (19). He died at a hospital in Punjab's Nawanshahr district after severe chest pain on Wednesday. The patient had diabetes and…
INDIAN Army reported its first positive coronavirus case on Wednesday (18). A 34-year-old soldier has tested positive for the infection in Leh, army sources said. The soldier, a resident of Chuhot village in Leh, came in contact with his father, who had returned from a pilgrimage in Iran by an…
A 63-year-old man died on Tuesday (17) in Mumbai, India’s commercial capital and second larget populous city, due to coronavirus, health ministry said. This is the third death in India due to COVID-19 and the total number of positive cases rose to 137. Many states have reported their first cases…
INDIAN software major Infosys has vacated one of the buildings in Bangalore, South India, after a team member was suspected for coronavirus (COVID-19). As many as 30,000 software professionals work in the 81-acre green campus. “To ensure preparedness, we are evacuating only the IIPM building as a precautionary measure on receiving…
The Indian Premier League, the world's most lucrative cricket competition, on Friday (13)postponed the start of this year's tournament amid mounting anxiety in India over the coronavirus pandemic. While the country of 1.3 billion has reported just two deaths from coronavirus and 81 confirmed cases, the government has ordered measures…
INDIA'S cricket board has said that the Indian Premier League (IPL) has been postponed till April 15 over coronavirus. The news comes after the government on Thursday (12) called for the IPL be cancelled to help slow the coronavirus pandemic after organisers said they were ready to play in empty…
INDIA has recorded its first death due to coronavirus in the Southern Indian state of Karnataka. The victim, a 76-year-old man who passed away on Tuesday, was tested positive for the coronavirus, the Karnataka health department confirmed the same on Thursday (12). "The 76-year-old man from Kalaburagi who passed away and was…
The Indian Premier League could be played behind closed doors because of the new coronavirus, an official said on Thursday (12), as calls grew to cancel or delay the world's richest tournament. Cricket leaders will meet on Saturday to decide whether the Twenty20 tournament featuring top international players will start…
THE Southern Indian state of Kerala on Tuesday (10) scaled up the protocol to deal with the COVID-19 threat to nearly a state-wide lock-down, with the government declaring a public health emergency. The total number of COVID-19 cases in the state has jumped to 14. In India, a total of…
India’s Sports Authority of India (SAI) will train Srinivasa Gowda, the 28-year-old Kambala jockey from Karnataka, who became an instant social media sensation when he covered 145 meters in 13.62 seconds. Netizens in India started to call him 'India's Usain Bolt'. Many people including politicians and businessmen have praised him…
Last year saw a lot of dust being brushed off antique copies of the Indian Constitution. Orders for fresh prints were galore. And even the layman started referring with ease to the 117,369-word framework on which the Indian democracy thrives. The word ‘Constitution’ and its Hindi counterpart ‘Samvidhaan’ echoed across the…
Days after nearly 200 homes were demolished in an informal settlement in the southern Indian city of Bengaluru, human rights groups and slum dwellers said they expected more such evictions as a new citizenship law is enforced in the country. Police and municipal officials said the homes were built illegally…
Shikhar Dhawan, KL Rahul and captain Virat Kohli hit swashbuckling half-centuries as India powered to a 36-run victory over Australia to level their one-day series on Friday. Thrashed by 10 wickets in the first match, Dhawan made 96, Rahul, described as a "revelation" by his skipper, hit 80, while Kohli…
Hundreds of Hindu activists affiliated to India's ruling party rallied on Monday (13) to protest a planned Jesus statue that will rival Rio de Janeiro's Christ The Redeemer for size. Prime minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has long been accused of intolerance towards other religions and of wanting…
Prime minister Narendra Modi sought on Sunday (22) to reassure India's Muslims over a new citizenship law that has sparked deadly protests and put his Hindu nationalist government under pressure like never before. At least 25 people have died in almost two weeks of demonstrations and violence after Modi's government…
Washington and London issued travel warnings for northeast India as opponents of a new citizenship law geared up for more protests Saturday, following days of clashes that saw two people killed and dozens injured. Many in the far-flung, resource-rich region fear the new legislation will grant citizenship to large numbers…
A 25-YEAR-old youth from southern Indian city of Mysuru, pursuing his master's degree in computer science in the US, was reportedly shot dead by an unknown assailant, family members said on Saturday (30). Abhishek Sudesh Bhat was temporarily looking after a motel in California, where he was shot on Thursday…
OVER half of Indians (51 per cent) paid bribe to government officials, including the police, in the country last year, latest data showed. The report has come when the government vows to create a system without corruption. Those who responded to the survey questionnaire said bribes were most commonly asked…
METALS and mining giant Vedanta recorded a nearly 61 per cent rise in its consolidated profit for the September quarter, the company said on Thursday (14). The Anil Agarwal-controlled firm’s profit stood at Rs 21.58 billion, or £233.43 million, when compared to the Rs 13.43bn recorded in the same quarter…
Two former Indian Premier League players have been arrested for spot-fixing in a scandal-ridden regional tournament, police said Thursday. Wicketkeeper-batsman CM Gautam and Abrar Kazi were arrested in Bangalore by a special unit investigating corruption and fixing in the Karnataka Premier League. Gautam, the 33-year-old former captain of Bellary Tuskers,…
CONTINUING its drive against illegal Bangladeshi immigrants staying in the southern Indian city of Bengaluru, police on Tuesday (29) warned of action against building owners renting out their premises and employers who hire such people without proper verification. In case the tenants or employees were found to be illegal immigrants,…
Opening batsman Mayank Agarwal converted his maiden test hundred into a double as India put South Africa's bowlers to the sword in the opening match of the three-test series at Visakhapatnam on Thursday. After Rohit Sharma's potentially career-defining 176 in his first innings as a test opener, it was Agarwal's…
By Soumik Datta Last year when I learned that my guru, Pandit Buddhadev Dasgupta was no more, I spent the day listening to his recording and lessons recorded on old cassettes. A majestic sarod player and dedicated teacher, he hasn’t gone away, he lives in our hands and hearts…
INDIA gets maximum foreign students from Nepal followed by Afghanistan while Karnataka is the favourite city for foreigners to pursue higher education in India, according to the data from country’s ministry of human resource development (HRD). The number of males is higher than that of female students from foreign countries…
INDIA issued a fresh flood alert Wednesday (14) for parts of the southern state of Kerala, as the nationwide death toll from the annual monsoon deluge rose to at least 244. Authorities warned Kerala locals of heavy rainfall over the next 24-48 hours in some of the worst affected regions…
THE death toll from India’s monsoon floods climbed to 202 on Tuesday (13) as heavy rainfall kept pounding coastal regions in the west and south. Authorities have already moved more than 1.2 million people to relief camps. The southern tourist hotspot of Kerala, which was hit by its worst floods…
INDIAN authorities have moved around a million people into emergency camps in recent days as the death toll from monsoon floods jumped Monday (12) to at least 184. The southern state of Kerala, a tourist haven known for its beaches, hill resorts, and backwaters, has been the worst-hit region for…
THE death toll from floods in India's states of Karnataka, Kerala, and Maharashtra rose to 95, official figures showed on Saturday (10), as heavy rain and landslides forced hundreds of thousands to evacuate their homes. Seasonal monsoon rains from June to September are a crucial lifeline for agrarian Indian society,…
AT least 22 people have died in the southern Indian state of Kerala after torrential monsoon rains caused landslides and flooding that cut off some areas, authorities said on Friday (9). Seasonal monsoon rains from June to September cause deaths and mass displacement across South Asia every year but they…
AT least 16 people have died in India's western state of Maharashtra as heavy rains and overflowing rivers swamped five districts, forcing authorities to move more than 140,000 people to safer places, a government official said on Wednesday (7). Nearly 43,000 people have so far been evacuated from flood-hit and…
The body of a billionaire Indian coffee magnate who went missing amid financial troubles was found by a river in southern India, police said on Wednesday (31). VG Siddhartha, founder of the Cafe Coffee Day chain that beat Starbucks at its own game in India, was last seen Monday next…
SEVERE floods and lightning have claimed the lives of more than 650 people across India, Nepal, Bangladesh, and Pakistan, officials said Monday (22) as the annual monsoon took its toll on the rainfed region. More than 10 million people in the South Asian countries have been affected by the deluge,…
SHEILA Dikshit was one of the tallest leaders of the Congress who had the distinction of being Delhi's longest serving chief minister and giving the national capital Delhi its modern look. A warm and affable politician, she was a loyalist of the Gandhi family. She was handpicked by Rajiv Gandhi…
An influential businessman was arrested by Indian police on Friday (19) over a half-billion dollar ponzi scheme that allegedly defrauded tens of thousands of mostly-Muslim investors. Mohammed Mansoor Khan was detained at New Delhi airport upon his return from Dubai, where he had fled last month after winding up his…
An Indian state has set aside hundreds of college places for survivors of trafficking and sexual assault, a move welcomed by anti-slavery charities on Friday (12) for helping improve the lives of rescued slaves. The southern Indian state of Karnataka said this week that one per cent of all places…
INDIAN business tycoon Anil Agarwal led Vedanta Ltd said that it spent Rs 100 billion (£1.17bn) on capital expenditure programme in the financial year 2019. Speaking at the annual general meeting of Vedanta Ltd in New Delhi, company’s chairman Navin Agarwal said: "As India's largest private sector oil and gas…
IRISH business Kerry Group Plc has inaugurated a €20 million (£18m) facility in Southern Indian state of Karnataka as the company plans to expand its research and innovation efforts. The new site was opened by Irish Ambassador to India, Brian McElduff on Monday (24). The new, state-of-the-art 40,585 square metre…
ACCLAIMED Indian actor Girish Karnad, who died on Monday (10) at his Bengaluru residence at the age of 81, wore many hats throughout his career spanning five decades. But it wasn't his role as a scholar or a director he is was most associated with. Karnad was best known for his…
A 33-year-old man died after a fight over water in southern India, police said Friday (7), as the country gasped from extreme heat and storms that killed 24 in the north. The argument broke out on Wednesday when a 48-year-old man and his three sons were allegedly syphoning large quantities of…
THREE Indian opposition state assembly members and over 50 municipal leaders from West Bengal joined prime minister Narendra Modi's party today (28), days after he was re-elected with big gains in places like the populous eastern state. The defections came as opposition parties in states such as Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh,…
In its landslide victory, the BJP has seen its vote share soar past 50 per cent in at least 13 states and Union territories, a feat which the rival Congress could manage only in Puducherry. Besides, the main opposition party's voting percentage has remained in single digits in politically important…
EVERY morning around dawn, dozens of people gather by the dusty banks of a stream snaking through Shikrawa village, two hours south of India's capital, New Delhi, to do the same thing: defecate in the open. "There are close to 1,600 houses in Shikrawa. And I know for a fact…
Dispelling the impression that recent searches by the Income-Tax department were politically motivated, India prime minister Narendra Modi on Friday (26) said the law is equal for all and his residence should also be searched if he has done anything wrong. Addressing a public meeting at Sidhi in Madhya Pradesh,…
India prime minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday (24) took a veiled dig at Congress president Rahul Gandhi, saying people looking at a mirror ten times a day and aspiring to become prime minister cannot even win assembly constituencies in their Lok Sabha seat. He said the Congress-led opposition, which has…
Polling will be held on Tuesday (22) for the third and largest phase of Lok Sabha election in 116 seats, including all constituencies in Gujarat and Kerala, with BJP president Amit Shah, Congress chief Rahul Gandhi and several Union ministers among prominent candidates in the fray. The stakes are high…
AT LEAST five workers from an Indian political party on a break after working on India's general election were among some 290 people killed in bomb attacks in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday (21), a government official said. Another two from a seven-member group from the party, the Janata Dal…
Millions of voters across India cast ballots in the second round of the world's biggest election on Thursday (18) amid violence and protests that highlighted the intensity of animosity in the campaign. With more than a month to go before the marathon ends, prime minister Narendra Modi kept up a…
VOTERS across India cast ballots today (18) in the second round of the country's mega elections amid more deadly violence including a poll worker gunned down by Maoist rebels. More than 155 million people are eligible to vote in the second phase, which covers 95 parliament constituencies in 12 states…
K L Rahul and Mayank Agarwal struck fluent half-centuries to guide Kings XI Punjab to a six-wicket win over Sunrisers Hyderabad in a nail-bitting Indian Premier League match on Monday (8). Opting to bat, Kings XI first restricted Sunrisers to 150 for four and then rode on Rahul and Agarwal's…
INDIA prime minister Narendra Modi's 'Main bhi chowkidar' campaign on Monday (18) drew more ridicule from Congress president Rahul Gandhi and party leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra. Raising the Rafale issue, Rahul said Modi was attempting to convert the whole country into chowkidar after being "caught", while Priyanka said chowkidar are…
The harrowing time that he faced in the wake of a chat show controversy has "humbled him a little bit", feels opener KL Rahul, who now values his India cap more than ever before. Both Rahul and Hardik Pandya were provisionally suspended for their loose comments on women during a…
UNITED STATES president Donald Trump said on Thursday (28) there would be some "reasonably decent news" on the ongoing conflict between India and Pakistan, a day after the two nuclear powers both downed enemy jets and Pakistan captured an Indian pilot. The US, China and other world powers have urged…
As the internet is penetrating into our lives more and more, several mainstream Bollywood actors are jumping from the silver screen and turning to digital series, which have kind of revolutionized the whole structure of showbusiness in the past few years. After spending close to two decades in the Hindi…
TWO Indian Air Force planes collided in mid-air in the southern state of Karnataka on Tuesday (19) while rehearsing an aerobatic show, killing one pilot and injuring two others, a senior police official said. "One Indian Air Force pilot has unfortunately lost his life. Two others were injured and shifted…
BUSINESSMAN Vijay Mallya, who is wanted in India over defaulting on bank loans, has filed an application in the UK High Court, seeking permission to appeal against an extradition order signed by the British home secretary. Mallya, 63, the co-owner of the Formula One motor racing team Force India which…
According to reports, superstar Sanjay Dutt has been offered a role in KGF – Chapter 2, the second instalment of the superhit Kannada blockbuster KGF – Chapter 1, starring Yash as the protagonist. Dutt, who was last seen in Tigmanshu Dhulia’s Saheb Biwi Aur Gangster 3 (2018), has reportedly been…
INDIA'S former defence minister George Fernandes, 88, passed away in Delhi today (29) after a prolonged illness. Fernandes was suffering from Alzheimer's disease, which had forced him out of the public eye for several years, and had recently contracted swine flu, his long time associate, Jaya Jaitly, said. He joined prime minister Atal…
Two women have died and nine others including two children are undergoing treatment after eating contaminated food at a Hindu temple in southern India, police said. It is the second such case in two months in the southern state of Karnataka, after at least 11 people died and 29 others…
The Kannada community in Britain held a candle vigil condolence prayer for Shivakumara Swamiji, who passed away in Karnataka on Monday after a prolonged illness. The candlelight vigil was organised in collaboration with the Lambeth Basaveshwara foundation on Monday. Swamiji, known as 'Walking God' among his countless followers, had donated…
Tens of thousands of people thronged the streets of an Indian town on Monday (21) to pay their last respects to the 111-year-old head of a Hindu religious sect known as "the walking god" to his followers. Shivakumara Swami was the head of Sree Siddaganga Mutt, a highly influential monastery…
The UK and India co-hosted two day long technology festival in New Delhi which concluded on Wednesday (12). The India-UK FutureTech Fest (FTF) brought together over 200 firms and 1000 delegates, featuring world-leading Indian and UK tech firms, along with scientists, policy-makers, and entrepreneurs. The thought-leadership summit looked at the…
The UK has expanded its investments in India to become the largest single western investor, according to ‘India’s Sterling Assets: Britain Meets India’ report prepared by Confederation of British Industry (CBI) and Grant Thornton. During 2000 and 2018, total foreign direct investment (FDI) which flowed into India from all channels…
Kerala state has become the first state in India to have four international airports with the inauguration of its Kannur International Airport on Sunday (9) here in Kannur. The greenfield airport, constructed on a public-private-partnership model, stretches across over 2,000 acres of land at Mattanur, 25 kilometres away from Kannur…
India’s business tycoon Vijay Mallya on Wednesday (5) asked various Indian banks to accept his offer to repay 100 per cent of the principle loan sum he is liable to repay them. Mallya’s offer has come just a few days ahead of UK court’s judgement on his petition not to…
At least 28 people, many of them children, drowned on Saturday (24) after their bus plunged into a canal in southern Indian state Karnataka, police said, in the latest tragedy on the world's deadliest roads. Police said they retrieved 28 bodies from the private passenger bus after it veered off…
A man-eating tiger that claimed more than a dozen victims in two years has been shot dead in India, sparking controversy over the legality of its killing. One of India's most high-profile tiger hunts in decades ended Friday night when the mother of two 10-month old cubs -- known to hunters as…
India reached out to UK-based investors with a roadshow in London in a bid to attract international public-private partnerships (PPP) into the country’s growing crude oil and gas sector. India’s Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas and the Directorate General of Hydrocarbon (DGH), organised an interactive session on Monday (29) which…
In a strict warning, India’s Income Tax (IT) department has cautioned the public not to purchase the shares of United Racing and Bloodstock Breeders Limited (URBBL), owned by fugitive Indian business tycoon, Vijay Mallya. The shares held by Mallya are expected to be kept open for e-auction on October 30…
by LAUREN CODLING ASIAN restaurants and food brands have spoken out about the importance of philanthropy, as a leading London restaurant announced it had donated five million meals to charity last month. Shamil Thakrar is the co-founder of Dishoom, a popular chain of restaurants known for their design that is…
KERALA will seek to borrow more than Rs 100 billion ($1.4 billion) to finance reconstruction work after heavy rains claimed nearly 400 lives, its chief minister said yesterday (21). The proposed loan is part of a special package that the southern Indian state, which estimates it has suffered damage of…
Worst flood hit India’s Southern State Kerala is expected to receive donations worth 79.23 million GBP for relief and rehabilitation works from United Arab Emirates (UAE) government and Indian origin billionaire business tycoons based in the UAE. According to media reports, Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Tuesday (21) informed…
Helicopters airlifted stranded families from rooftops and dam gates were thrown open as incessant torrential rain brought fresh havoc on Thursday (16) to the Indian state of Kerala where about 100 people are feared dead. Hundreds of extra troops were deployed in the southern state, a major tourist hotspot, as…
LIQUOR tycoon Vijay Mallya will return to Westminster Magistrates Court in London on Tuesday (31) for closing arguments in his extradition trial and for the judge to set a timeline for a ruling in the high-profile case. The 62-year-old former Kingfisher Airlines boss, who has been on bail on an…
Liquor baron Vijay Mallya has reportedly reached out to Indian authorities expressing his desire to return to the country to face the law. Source, however, refused to divulge more details about Mallya’s future actions, reported news agency PTI. Mallya is the main accused in a Rs 9,000 crore bank fraud…
WhatsApp announced limits on Friday (20) on the forwarding of messages by its 200 million Indian users in an effort to stop a spate of horrific lynchings and to assuage government threats of legal action in its biggest market. More than 20 people have been butchered by crazed mobs in…
SOCIAL MEDIA RUMOURS BEHIND ‘HORRENDOUS ACT’ OF LYNCHING INDIA’S supreme court on Tuesday (17) asked the government to enact a new law and stem what it called “horrendous acts” of lynching, after some 22 people were killed by mobs this year. Since February the country has seen a spate of…
INDIA's Supreme Court on Tuesday (17) asked the government to enact a new law and stem what it called "horrendous acts" of lynching, after some 22 people were killed by mobs this year. Since February the country has seen a spate of mob lynchings, often in isolated areas where outsiders…
ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS CAN SEIZE ASSETS OF THE TYCOON INDIAN tycoon Vijay Mallya said last Sunday (8) he will comply fully with court enforcement officers seeking to seize his British assets, but there was not much for them to take as his family’s lavish residences were not in his name. India wants…
Embattled Indian tycoon Vijay Mallya said on Sunday he will comply fully with court enforcement officers seeking to seize his British assets, but there was not much for them to take as his family's lavish residences were not in his name. India wants to extradite the 62-year-old former liquor baron from Britain…
1. Amba Vilas Palace, Mysore Amba Vilas Palace otherwise known as the Mysore Palace is a historical palace and a royal residence at Mysore in the southern Karnataka state of India. This palace is the official residence of the royal family of Mysore and was built in 1912. Mysore Palace…
1. Tawang Monastery, Arunachal Pradesh Tawang Monastery is located in Tawang city of Tawang district in the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh. It is the largest monastery in India and second largest in the world. Tawang Monastery is known in Tibetan as Golden Namgey Lhatse. The monastery is three stories…
INDIA is the world's most dangerous country for women due to the high risk of sexual violence and being forced into slave labour, according to a poll of global experts released on Tuesday (26). War-torn Afghanistan and Syria ranked second and third in the Thomson Reuters Foundation survey of about…
1. Lonavala – Maharashtra Resting in the lap of the lush greenery of the Sahyadri Mountains of Western Ghats, Lonavala is one of the most beautiful hill stations in India. During monsoon, this place becomes truly out of the world. It is about 64 kilometres (40 mi) west of modern-day…
The UK High Court has ordered embattled liquor tycoon Vijay Mallya to pay a minimum of £200,000 towards the costs incurred by 13 Indian banks in their legal battle to recover alleged dues. Last month, Judge Andrew Henshaw had refused to overturn a worldwide order freezing Mallya's assets and upheld…
India's prime minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday (13) posted online a video of his doing a series of exercises to "refresh and rejuvenate" himself. Modi posted this photo less than a month after accepting Indian cricket captain Virat Kohli's fitness challenge. Modi is an ardent yoga practitioner and the video…
Indian film star Rajinikanth's latest outing Kaala has not been screened in the southern state of Karnataka due to threats from regional groups who believe the actor is against Karnataka. The film was set to release on June 7. Karnataka is in a water dispute with Tamil Nadu, and Ranjinikanth's…
1. Indira Gandhi International Airport, New Delhi The airport spread over an area of 5,106 acres. Named after Indira Gandhi, a former Prime Minister of India, it is the busiest airport in India in terms of passenger traffic since 2009. It is also the busiest airport in the country in…
INDIA began a fresh round of tests to trace the origin of a rare brain-damaging virus that has killed 13 people, a health official said on Monday (28), as initial tests on animals suspected of carrying the Nipah virus showed no sign of the disease. All animal samples, including those…
As many as 40 people lost their lives as hutments collapsed and trees fell following thunderstorms in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Jharkhand. According to reports, Bihar recorded 19 deaths and the neighbouring state of Jharkhand had 12 deaths. Nine people were killed in thunderstorm and lightning in Unnao, Kanpur and Rae Bareli…
1. Ganga River, Rishikesh, Uttarakhand Rishikesh is the undisputed leader among the best river rafting destinations in India. The 16 km stretch of River Ganga from Shivpuri to Lakshman Jhula, makes the ideal place for river rafting, guaranteeing an adventurous ride, abounding in rapids and whirlpools, with curious names like…
Ireland's prime minister Leo Varadkar on Thursday (24) made a last-ditch effort in his campaign to lift a ban on abortions, as the country gets set to vote in a referendum on the crucial issue today. In what is seen as the first major test of his leadership since he…
KARNATAKA DRAMA SEEN AS SETBACK FOR MODI AHEAD OF 2019 ELECTIONS INDIAN opposition parties joined forces to snatch power from the country’s ruling party in the southern state of Karnataka, laying the stage for other such alliances in a direct challenge to prime minister Narendra Modi’s re-election bid next year. A coalition…
India's southern state of Kerala continues to grapple with Nipah virus, with 10 deaths being confirmed by the state's health minister K K Shailaja as of Wednesday (23). Although no fresh cases have been reported in more than 24 hours, two persons who had contact history with the infected and…
1.Ziro Festival, Arunachal Pradesh The Ziro Festival of Music is an outdoor music festival held in the Ziro valley in the northeast Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh. It showcases the independent music scene in India. The festival is spread over four days and is hosted by members of the Apatani…
India's Supreme Court ordered prime minister Narendra Modi's party to hold a vote of confidence on Saturday (19) in a key state where it has been allowed to form a government despite its lack of a majority. The order heightened political tensions in Karnataka and the opposition Congress party moved…
KARNATAKA POLL WIN VINDICATES MODI AHEAD OF 2019 ELECTIONS INDIA’S prime minister Narendra Modi’s ruling party was set on Tuesday (15) to win the largest number of seats in a big southern state poll, giving him momentum for a re-election bid next year and opening the path for more reforms. A government in…
A SENIOR British minister visited India last weekend to help launch alliances under the UK-India Tech Partnership initiative. Matt Hancock, the UK’s Digital and Culture Media and Sport (DCMS) secretary, launched the collaboration plan which is hoped will create new deals, jobs and investment for both nations. The UK-India Tech…
The BJP's decision to form the government in Karnataka despite not having the numbers is making a mockery of India's constitution, said Congress president Rahul Gandhi. On Thursday (17) BJP's BS Yeddyurappa took oath as the 23rd chief minister of Karnataka, and while BJP celebrated its victory, India mourns the…
Bollywood actor and producer Uday Chopra found himself being mercilessly being trolled online after he tweeted about Karnataka Governor Vajubhai Vala's political affiliation. Sharing a link to Vala's Wikipedia page, Chopra referred to him as the "BJP-RSS Guy." Vala is the former Gujarat BJP leader who once vacated his seat for…
Thanking the people of Karnataka for voting for the Congress, Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday (15) said the party will continue to fight for them. The 47-year-old also praised Congress party workers and leaders for their work in the recently concluded assembly elections. "A big thank you to all those who…
Indian prime minister Narendra Modi's ruling party was set on Tuesday (15) to win the largest number of seats in a big southern state election, giving him momentum for a re-election bid next year and opening a path for more reforms. A government in Karnataka led by the Bharatiya Janata…
KARNATAKA ON INDIAN PRIME MINISTER AND BJP RADAR INDIA’S prime minister Narendra Modi has thrown himself into a campaign to win a tight state election this weekend and secure a beachhead in the south, ahead of his own re-election bid next year. Karnataka state, home to India’s Silicon Valley capital…
by Amit Roy RELIEF FOR THE TORIES BUT LABOUR ‘SHOULD HAVE DONE BETTER’ IT GOES almost without saying that it is risky to extrapolate the results of a general election from local ones, whether that is in India or in the UK. Nevertheless, the assembly elections in India’s south Indian…
Kunchikal Falls, Karnataka Kunchikal fall's total height is 455 meters (1,493 feet) making it the highest waterfall in India. This waterfall is located in Agumbe valley that receives very heavy rainfall and it has the only permanent rainforest research station in India. India’s biggest waterfall is formed by the Varahi…
Embattled liquor tycoon Vijay Mallya, undergoing an extradition trial in a UK court over fraud and money laundering charges by Indian authorities, on Tuesday (8) lost a lawsuit filed by 13 Indian banks in the UK High Court seeking to collect from him more than $1.55 billion. Judge Andrew Henshaw…
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said he was willing to become India's prime minister in 2019 if his party emerged as the single largest party after the Lok Sabha elections. Gandhi made this announcement while interacting with the media in Bengaluru. “If the Congress wins with the single-largest majority, then why…
Virat Kohli started his professional career with the Delhi Ranji. On December 18 in 2006, when he was playing against Karnataka, Virat's father Prem Kohli passed away the same day. He scored a whopping score of 90 that was very crucial for his team. And only a few cricketers across the…
Protest-hit Chennai Super Kings were on Thursday (12) ordered to play all their remaining Indian Premier League (IPL) home games 1,200 kilometres away in Pune after players had shoes thrown at them and were threatened with snakes being unleashed into their stadium. Demonstrations marred Chennai's winning return to the IPL…
Protesters burned merchandise and jostled with police outside a cricket stadium in Chennai on Tuesday (10), demanding Indian Premier League matches be cancelled as the southern city reels from a water crisis. Hundreds of demonstrators, some wearing black t-shirts and waving black balloons, gathered near the venue shouting slogans ahead…
1] Ganga River, Uttarakhand The Alaknanda river is among the best river for white water rafting in India as well as in the world due to its high rafting grade. Alaknanda River is the source stream of the Ganges and meets the Bhagirathi River at Devprayag. Bhagirathi River is also one…
1] Munsiyari The trekkers paradise is a hill station nestled in the snow capped peaks of the great Himalayas in the Pithoragarh District of Uttarakhand. Munsiyari is the base point for various treks of the great Himalayan mountain ranges. 2] Zanskar Valley -Ladakh The Zanskar Valley is one of the remotest places…
Team Indian skipper Virat Kohli has played a quintessential role for the national team across formats and has further become the second India batsman to reach 900 points in the Test ranking after former specialist Sunil Gavaskar owing to the astronomical rise in his cricketing career while donning the national jerseys.…
The UK government's Department for International Trade (DIT) will observe November as "India-UK Future Tech Month" and hold a series of technology-focused business activities in Britain and India. The series of events are aimed at showcasing the very best UK technology and innovation to a high-quality Indian audience, including buyers,…
In a move that is likely to upset the Congress government in Karnataka, a state minister has named as an accused in the alleged suicide of DSP MK Ganpathy who died under mysterious circumstances in July last year. In an FIR filed by CBI, Karnataka Minister for Bengaluru Development and…
At least six persons were killed and some are feared trapped after a three-storeyed building collapsed due to a suspected LPG cylinder blast near Ejipura in Bengaluru today, the police said. Eye-witnesses said the blast took place at around 7 am. They further said the 20 year-old building was reduced…
Gauri Lankesh, known to be an anti-establishment voice with strident anti-right wing views, was shot dead at close range by unknown assailants at her home on the night of September 5. A writer, publisher and an editor, had returned home in her car. As she was opening the gate of…
KL Rahul might have had his share of struggles in the limited overs format of late but skipper Virat Kohli is confident that the talented Karnataka right-hander will come good at his new No 4 slot. Rahul had scores of 4, 17, and 7 in the three ODIs in Sri…
A US-based media watchdog has urged the Karnataka Police to thoroughly investigate the murder of journalist Gauri Lankesh who was shot dead at her residence in Bangalore. Lankesh, 55, known for her left-leaning outlook and forthright views on Hindutva politics, was shot dead by unidentified assailants. "We urge police in…
Senior journalist Gauri Lankesh on Tuesday was shot dead at her residence in Bengaluru’s Rajarajeshwari Nagar. The news was confirmed by city police commissioner. She was the editor of Lankesh Patrike, a weekly Kannada magazine. She had been a staunch critic of Hindutva politics. According to reports, Lankesh succumbed to multiple bullet wounds on her body. Reflecting on…
Thirty-five years since India’s defence ministry last saw a woman at its helm, there is another: Nirmala Sitharaman. Until now, the only woman to head India’ defence ministry was Indira Gandhi: first in 1975 and again in 1980-82. Madurai-born Sitharaman, who was earlier minister of state for commerce, has a master's in economics from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New…
Cheteshwar Pujara (89 not out) and Ajinkya Rahane (41 not out) put on 105 runs for the 4th wicket as India reached 238-3 at tea on day one of the second Test against Sri Lanka today (3). Pujara and Rahane batted with purpose and steadied the Indian innings after Lokesh…
A Tibetan student who self-immolated in an act of protest against Chinese rule in the Himalayan region has died in an Indian hospital, a doctor said Sunday (23). Tenzin Choeying, 19, succumbed to critical burn injuries in New Delhi a week after shouting "Victory to Tibet" and setting fire to…
TWO Indians are among winners of the “Green Oscars”, for their efforts in the field of animal and bird conservation in the country. Sanjay Gubbi won the award for his work to protect Karnataka's tiger corridors, and Purnima Barman for creating an all-female network to save the Greater Adjutant stork,…
Sony Pictures Networks India (SPN) today (11) said it has crossed the last year's Indian Premier League (IPL) viewership figures with 363.9 million viewers so far in just 32 matches. Last year, the channel saw 361 million viewers for the entire 2016 tournament. Sony Pictures Networks India is the official…
There is no place for any kind of discrimination in the modern world, India's envoy to the UK has said on the occasion of 883rd birth anniversary of Indian social reformer Basaveshwara. Paying tribute to Basaveshwara in Albert Embankment, India's High Commissioner Y K Sinha said: "We must celebrate values…
Vivek Murthy, the first Indian-American appointed by the Obama regime as the Surgeon General, has been dismissed by the Trump administration to bring new leadership to the vital public health sector. Dr Murthy, 39, has been replaced by his deputy, Rear Admiral Sylvia Trent-Adams, one of the first nurses to…
Kolkata Knight Riders defeated Sunrisers Hyderabad by 17 runs in their Indian Premier League clash. Chasing a challenging 173—run target, Sunrisers Hyderabad could reach 155 for six in their allotted 20 overs with Kolkata bowlers putting on a commendable performance. For Hyderabad, David Warner and Yuvraj Singh top scored with…
The worst drought in decades across several states in India is forcing tens of thousands of people to migrate from rural areas in search of water, food and jobs, increasing the risk that they may be trafficked or exploited, activists said. About 330 million people, almost a quarter of the…
About 330 million people are suffering from drought in India, the government has said, as the country reels from severe water shortages and desperately poor farmers suffer crop losses. One of the government’s most senior lawyers PS Narasimha told the Supreme Court that a quarter of the country’s population, spread…
THE peacefulness of the lush green fields of paddy and maize lining the road to Vemulaghat village in Telangana, India belies the anger of villagers protesting against the state’s plans to acquire about 21,000 acres of land for a reservoir. The Komuravelli Mallanna Sagar reservoir will irrigate 1.2 million acres…
Nobel Peace Laureate Kailash Satyarthi has appealed to the prime minister of India to prioritise children and ensure they are not trafficked, forced into marriage or put into bonded labour as the country reels from its worst drought in decades. In a letter to Narendra Modi, the child rights activist…
India’s Supreme Court on Wednesday said the tobacco industry must adhere to federal rules requiring stringent health warnings on cigarette packs, in a major setback for the $11 billion (£7.6 billion) industry that opposes the new policy. The court also turned down an industry plea to stay the implementation of…
Two Indian men were cleared on Friday (September 23) of the rape and homicide of 15-year-old British schoolgirl Scarlett Keeling whose bruised and semi-naked body was found on a Goa beach eight years ago. Friends and relatives of the two accused, Samson D’Souza and Placido Carvalho, cheered as the verdict…
Beleaguered Indian liquor tycoon Vijay Mallya on Monday resigned as a lawmaker, even as a committee was preparing to expel him from parliament over an unpaid billion dollar bank loan. The 60-year-old, a part-owner of the Force India Formula 1 team who used to run a liquor empire and Kingfisher…
Indian and foreign companies reopened offices and staff trickled back to work in the technology capital Bangalore on Wednesday (September 14), after two days of violent protests over access to water from a river severely disrupted life in the city. Multinationals like Amazon.com as well as Indian technology firms such…
India’s technology hub of Bangalore deployed riot police on Monday (September 12) to rein in protests as a water dispute turned violent, with cars and buses set of fire and people pelted with stones. Television footage showed flames pouring from burnt-out vehicles as angry crowds gathered nearby, while police said…
Millions of public sector workers went on strike across India on Friday (September 2), protesting against prime minister Narendra Modi’s plans for greater privatisation and a proposed minimum wage hike they say is inadequate. Up to 150 million workers from sectors including nursing, banking, manufacturing and coal mining as well…
Contending that large volumes of liquid cash are a big source of corruption and black money Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday (2) appealed to the people to “lead the change” towards cashless transactions to lay the strong foundations of an India where there is no place for such malaise.…
Indian cricket team coach Anil Kumble on Thursday (16) heaped praised on Virat Kohli saying the transformation of the current India skipper from a 19-year-old to the present time has been brilliant. “Virat Kohli, brilliance. I think one word is very difficult (to describe him). I have seen him develop…
India‘s Supreme Court jailed the anointed next leader of Tamil Nadu for four years for corruption Tuesday, heightening the turmoil in a state still reeling from the death of its long-time matriarch. VK Sasikala was ordered to surrender to prison authorities after judges quashed her acquittal in a $10 million…
India’s United Breweries has fired indebted beer baron Vijay Mallya from his non-executive chairman role following an order from the country’s market regulator, it said in a stock exchange filing late Wednesday (8). The UB Group said the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has barred Mallya from holding…
Apple is to start making iPhones in India this year, a local government official said on Friday (3), as the company seeks to tap into a booming middle class while sales in China slow. Karnataka’s IT minister said Apple had agreed to assemble its hugely popular phones in the southern…
Indian police have arrested four men accused of attacking a woman in Bangalore on New Year’s Day, though they said they had not found any evidence or received any formal complaints of sexual assault at a New Year’s eve celebration after media reports of “mass molestation”. Police made the arrests…
An Indian minister faced a severe backlash Tuesday (3) after he criticised women for dressing “like westerners” at a New Year’s eve celebration where a mob allegedly carried out a series of sex assaults. Although police have yet to charge anyone in connection with the violence on Saturday (31) night…
Apple is to start making iPhones in India this year, a local government official said on Friday (3), as the company seeks to tap into a booming middle class while sales in China slow. Karnataka’s IT minister said Apple had agreed to assemble its hugely popular phones in the southern…
Apple is to start making iPhones in India this year, a local government official said on Friday (3), as the company seeks to tap into a booming middle class while sales in China slow. Karnataka’s IT minister said Apple had agreed to assemble its hugely popular phones in the southern…