Washington: Ajay Banga will be a transformational leader, who will bring expertise, experience, and innovation to the position of World Bank president, US President Joe Biden said after the former Mastercard CEO was confirmed as the new head of the international financial institution. Ajay Banga on Wednesday became the first-ever Indian-American to head the bank….
London: Britain’s King Charles III has said that he would love to go to India on a State Visit and it should be planned soon, Indian-origin peer Lord Karan Bilimoria revealed following an audience with the monarch ahead of his Coronation ceremony in London on Saturday. During an interaction with a group of parliamentarians at…
Beijing: China’s Foreign Minister Qin Gang will travel to Pakistan on Friday on a two-day visit after attending the meeting of the SCO Foreign Ministers hosted by India in Goa, it was announced here on Thursday. Qin is attending the SCO (Shanghai Cooperation Organisation) Foreign Ministers meeting being held on May 4 and 5 at Panaji…
Singapore: Singapore is seen as a “prize target” by terrorist groups and it continues to be mentioned in their propaganda, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has said, emphasising that his nation cannot afford to let its guard down against such ultra forces. Speaking at the launch of the Religious Rehabilitation Group’s (RRG) Majulah Gallery at the…
London: Voters across large parts of England are voting in local elections on Thursday to elect hundreds of councillors and some local mayors in the first election where a form of voter identification (ID) is compulsory. Elections are being held in 230 of England’s 317 councils, within district, borough, county borough and unitary authority councils, and…
Washington: A Sikh couple was killed in a car accident in the US when a distracted driver hit the duo in a head-on collision, orphaning their two minor children. The accident occurred last Friday when Parminder Singh Bajwa and his wife Harpreet Kaur Bajwa were on their way to pick their children up from a school…
Karachi: A Pakistani police officer has been booked for allegedly killing a Hindu boy in an encounter in the country’s Sindh province earlier this week, a media report said on Thursday. The charges against accused Farman Shah were registered after the father of the deceased submitted a complaint with the authorities that his son Kamal Kishan…
Chandigarh: Punjab Police on Thursday said they have busted an international gang involved in the cross-border smuggling of arms and narcotics with the arrest of 13 people and recovery of heroin worth over Rs 34 lakh. “In a major breakthrough Gurdaspur police busted an international gang of cross border arms and narcotic smugglers while making…
Bengaluru: The BJP on Thursday dropped plans to have an eight-hour road-show by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi here on Saturday following concerns expressed by Bengalureans over difficulties that they will face with such a day-long programme.. Union Minister Shobha Karandlaje said the Prime Minister would now hold a road-show on two days — 10 am…
New Delhi: Telangana Chief Minister and Bharat Rashtra Samithi president K Chandrashekar Rao inaugurated a new office of his party in the national capital on Thursday. The four-storeyed building in Vasant Vihar in southwest Delhi will be the centre of the party’s expansion activities across the country. Rao changed his party’s name from Telangana Rashtra Samithi…
