- Thursday, July 17, 2025
A TOTAL of 633 incidents of death of Indian students abroad were reported in the last five years due to various reasons, including natural causes, the government said in Lok Sabha on Friday. Canada tops the list with 172 cases, followed by the US (108), the UK (58), Australia (57)…
THE STAR of "Heeramandi: The Diamond Bazaar", Taha Shah Badussha, said turning showstopper for designers Abu Jani and Sandeep Khosla at the opening show of the India Couture Week 2024 is an honour. Badussha, 36, shot to fame with his role of Nawab Tajdar Baloch in the popular Netflix series…
ON MAY 2, 1999, a 30-something Tashi Namgyal stumbled through the snow in the upper reaches of Kargil's Batalik sector looking for his missing yak through binoculars. What he found instead was something that lives on as a grim marker in the subcontinent's volatile history. Twenty-five years later, as India…
FORMER US president Barack Obama and his wife Michelle endorsed Kamala Harris' bid for president on Friday in a roughly one-minute long video that captured a private phone call between the couple and the current vice president. "We called to say Michelle and I couldn't be prouder to endorse you…
THE SUPREME COURT on Friday extended its July 22 interim order staying the directives issued by the BJP-ruled Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, and Madhya Pradesh, asking eateries along the Kanwar Yatra routes to display the names of their owners, staff and other details. A large number of devotees travel from various…
GOLD prices have corrected sharply by 7 per cent or Rs 5,000 per 10 grams in the local markets after the government slashed basic custom duty on gold, and the lower costs will encourage more people to invest in the yellow metal, both as a commodity and as a financial…
PLACED in a 'pool of death', the India men's hockey team will have to punch above its weight to better the colour of the bronze medal from the previous edition when it opens its Paris Olympics campaign against New Zealand on Saturday. The expectations are high from the Indians after…
VANDALS targeted France's high-speed train network with a series of coordinated actions that brought major disruption to some of the country's busiest rail lines ahead of the Paris Olympics opening ceremony on Friday. The state-owned railway operator said arsonists had targeted installations along the lines connecting Paris with cities such…
INDIAN prime minister Narendra Modi said on Friday that Pakistan is trying to stay relevant through "terrorism" and "proxy war" but its "unholy plans" will never succeed. The nuclear-armed South Asian neighbours share an uneasy relationship and India has, for decades, accused Pakistan of backing Islamist militants fighting its rule…
In a major setback to Pakistan's ruling coalition, the election commission has notified 39 successful MPs as lawmakers of jailed former prime minister Imran Khan's party following a landmark Supreme Court directive. The decision of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) may help the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) become the largest…
