Melbourne, 3/2:A bronze statue of Mahatma Gandhi has been stolen from the Australian Indian Community Centre in Rowville, Melbourne. The statue which was gifted by the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR), New Delhi was unveiled on November 12, 2021, by former Australian PM Scott Morrison. The statue held significant cultural, historical, and symbolic importance…
Lucknow, 3/2: Days after the Allahabad High Court’s sharp rebuke on the rising trend of the police shooting the accused in the legs during alleged encounters, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Tuesday said the police had been trained to makethe “criminals understand in a language that they understood”
Moscow, 3/2: The Kremlin said on Tuesday it had heard no statements from India about halting purchases of Russian oil after US President Donald Trump said New Delhi had agreed to stop such purchases as part of a trade accord with Washington. US President Donald Trump announced a trade deal on Monday with India that…
A passenger bus named Patra Maa Bankeswari met with an accident near Pushuguda Chhak in Malkangiri district early Tuesday morning when it lost balance and struck a roadside tree.The bus, bearing registration number OD 30F 5119, was travelling from Motu towards Malkangiri around 6 a.m. when the mishap occurred. Fortunately, no passengers sustained injuries. However, the front…
Jajpur: President Droupadi Murmu, who is currently on a visit to Odisha, visited the Maa Biraja Temple in Jajpur and offered prayers today. She left Bhubaneswar in the morning and reached Jajpur in a special helicopter. The President also performed Pinda Daan at Nabhi Gaya on the temple premises, a sacred site associated with ancestral rituals. Her visit to…
New Delhi, 3/2: The Supreme Court on Tuesday came down heavily on Meta Platforms Inc and WhatsApp while hearing their appeals against a Competition Commission of India order imposing a penalty of Rs 213.14 crore over the privacy policy, saying tech giants cannot “play with the right to privacy of citizens in the name of…
New Delhi, 3/2: Congress on Monday night targeted the union government over the Indo-US trade deal announcement by President Donald Trump, claiming that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has “capitulated finally” and insisting this “cannot be the father of all deals. Soon after Trump announced that the US is lowering tariffs from 25% to 18% and…
Washington DC, 2/2: US President Donald Trump on Monday announced that the reciprocal tariff on India will be lowered from 25% to 18%. “India will likewise move forward to reduce their tariffs and non tariff barriers against the United States, to zero,” he added
New Delhi, 2/2: The Supreme Court on Monday granted bail to three accused in the Pune Porsche hit-and-run case, where two people died allegedly due to rash and negligent driving by a juvenile in May 2024. A bench of Justices B V Nagarathna and Ujjal Bhuyan, however, expressed its concern, saying it was saddening how…
New Delhi, 2/2: An India-Pakistan fixture in an ICC event generates revenue to the tune of a staggering $250 million (over Rs 2,200 crore), as per some estimates and the absence of the cash-cow fixture from the upcoming T20 World Cup is certain to cause heavy losses to all stakeholders. Such is the pull of…
