Wed 13 August 2025: Indian retail companies give foreign brands like Starbucks stiff competition in the domestic market, but going global has been a challenge. From McDonald’s and Coca-Cola to Amazon and Apple, US-based multinationals are facing calls for a boycott in India as business executives and Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s supporters stoke anti-American sentiment […]
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Tue 12 August 2025: The US State Department on Monday designated Pakistan’s Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) and its armed wing, the Majeed Brigade, as terrorist organizations, accusing them of carrying out multiple deadly attacks in recent years. The State Department said the group has claimed responsibility for suicide bombings near Karachi airport and the Gwadar […]
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Mon 11 August 2025: Super featherweight Shigetoshi Kotari and lightweight Hiromasa Urakawa, both 28, fought on the same card in Tokyo’s Korakuen Hall on August 2. Two boxers in Japan have died from brain injuries they incurred in separate bouts during the same event in Tokyo, officials said. Both were later rushed to hospital where […]
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Mon 11 August 2025: Manila says a Chinese navy vessel collides with one from its own coastguard while chasing a Philippine patrol boat. China’s coastguard says it has expelled Philippine vessels from waters around the disputed Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea while Manila reports a collision in the confrontation. The Philippine boats were […]
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Mon 11 August 2025: On Monday, Indian police detained Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, his sister Priyanka Gandhi, and multiple senior opposition MPs during a march in New Delhi opposing a contentious revision of Bihar’s voter list, local media reported. The unified opposition protest was sparked by the Election Commission of India’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) […]
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Sun 10 August 2025: Pakistan on Saturday rejected an Indian claim to have shot down six Pakistani aircraft, including five fighter jets, during May’s four-day conflict between the South Asian nuclear-armed neighbors. The claim was “implausible” and “ill-timed,” said Pakistani Defense Minister Khawaja Asif in a statement. “Not a single Pakistani aircraft was hit or […]
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Sat 09 August 2025: In the US-China technology rivalry, which came to light with the bans the US imposed on Huawei in 2019, the biggest competition in recent years has been in the chip sector. In recent days, allegations of espionage and theft have risen to the top of the agenda in a process that has continued […]
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Sat 09 August 2025: The National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) has dropped prominent historical figures like Tipu Sultan, Haider Ali, Raziya Sultan and Nur Jahan from the history syllabus of 8th class. This change has been done under the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 and the National Curriculum Framework for School Education […]
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Fri 08 August 2025: The Jammu and Kashmir government has banned the publication and circulation of 25 books, including works by prominent authors such as Maulana Maududi, Arundhati Roy, A.G. Noorani, Victoria Schofield, and David Devadas. The books have been deemed by the authorities as promoting “false narratives” and “glorifying terrorism,” posing a threat to […]
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Thu 07 August 2025: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recognized India’s use of Israeli-supplied weapons, including the jointly developed Barak-8 missile with India’s Defence Research Development Organisation and HARPY drones, in its military operation, Operation Sindoor, launched in response to the Pahalgam terror attack. “The things we provided before worked very well on the field… […]
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