•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 […]...
•A suspect, John Chibuike Two Nigerian nationals were arrested in separate incidents in India this week for cocaine trafficking, local authorities reported. In Hyderabad, a Nigerian woman was arrested yesterday after excise officials seized 7.5 grams of cocaine from her possession. According to the Times of India, the district task force of th...
•Nigerians in Diaspora Some Nigerians in India have raised the alarm over what they described as increased racial profiling and brutalisation by the Indian police. They lamented visa regularisation challenges and high renewal fees, which they said had made life unbearable in the Asian country, reports Saturday PUNCH. Some of the residents, who...
•France PM Emmanuel Macron and Indian PM Narendra Modi France warned today it could block the disbursement of climate funds to India under a recent trade deal with the EU if New Delhi does not up its game in fighting global warming. France’s ecological transition minister Monique Barbut told our correspondent the European Union should [&hellip...

