Indian authorities are embarking on a drive to arrest foreign nationals who are overstaying visa in the country, especially those suspected to be engaging in drug trafficking. It was gathered that as part of the drive, Narcotics Control Bureau arrested four Nigerians following a bust on a transnational drug trafficking network in Delhi, India,...
•Hindu worshippers At least 15 people were killed today in two separate incidents in eastern India while paying homage to Hindu deity Shiva during the holy month of Shravan, officials said. A fire at a hotel in Tarapith in West Bengal state killed eight people, while seven others were killed in a stampede at a […]
•Monsoon floods in India Floods in India’s northeast have killed nearly 100 people, according to an official toll update today, with villages buried in mud after one of Assam state’s worst deluges in years. At least 97 people have died in the floods in Assam that have affected nearly 170,000, including thousands who have been […]
•Inspector General of Police, Tinji Disu The Inspector-General of Police, IGP, Olatunji Disu, has disclosed that the committee that developed the framework for the proposed state police system studied India, the United States of America and Pakistan’s models before submitting its recommendations. Also, IGP Disu urged police personnel to take a...
•India Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Meta logo An Indian parliamentary panel called today for Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg to apologise for the temporary removal of a video of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. India, the world’s most populous country, is Meta’s largest market by users, with hundreds of millions of people using Facebook, Instagram...
•Demonstrators carrying the Indian national flag shout slogans during protest march in Patna, today Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi vowed today “stringent punishment” for those involved in exam fraud that has fuelled student anger, in his first direct comments tied to major protests challenging his government. The comments came after thou...
•A woman carrying a pitcher filled water supplied by a special train on a hot summer day in Pali India is working to ensure “not a single drop of water” will flow into neighbouring Pakistan, the water minister has said, after New Delhi suspended a major treaty last year. Pakistan has previously said it would […]
•US and India flags India and the United States are “about 99 percent” done with the first tranche of a trade deal, the commerce minister said, as a US delegation began talks in New Delhi today. The delegation, led by Assistant US Trade Representative for South and Central Asia Brendan Lynch, is holding three days […]
•A statue of Argentine football player Lionel Messi is pictured tied with rope for stability from rain and thunderstorms, prior to its re-installation in a safer place, in Kolkata, today A giant statue of football superstar Lionel Messi erected in India to mark his visit last year is “swaying in the wind” and will be […]
India’s state-run oil companies raised petrol and diesel prices by more than three percent today as disruption to energy supplies due to the Iran war mounts pressure on the economy. The increase marks the first hike in automobile fuel prices in India since the war broke out in February, prompting Iran’s near-total blockade of the […]...
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