Two Indian climbers along with their leader have been banned from mountaineering in Nepal for six years for lying to have climbed Mount Everest in 2016. The alleged fake triumph came to light after Narender Singh Yadav was nominated for the Tenzing Norgay national adventure award; after which other Indian mountaineers alleged the summit pictures […]
Pakistan ranks 3rd in Govt. support provided to SMEs to mitigate the impact of COVID-19, according to a recently launched “Impact of COVID-19 on SMEs” Survey Report conducted on-line by SMEDA, Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI), and Asian Productivity Organization (APO). The survey was conducted by ADBI and APO in other countries from the region […]
NEW DELHI: India has asked popular micro-blogging website Twitter Inc to remove 1,178 accounts; which the country says are allegedly backed by Pakistan by sympathizers of a separatist Sikh movement; two technology ministry sources said on Monday. India’s security agencies said some of the accounts, operated from outside of the country. The order also involved […]
At least seven people were killed and more than 100 people are missing after a glacier burst; triggering flash floods in India’s northern Uttarakhand state on Sunday. The flood was caused; when a portion of the Nanda Devi glacier broke off; in the Tapovan area of the northern state of Uttarakhand on Sunday morning. The […]
Indian trolls have started taking aim at Barbados singer Rihanna after she tweeted on the farmer’s protest; therefore, urging people to start a conversation about her. Moreover, some Pakistanis on Twitter took the opportunity to craft witty memes that take aim at India’s Pakistan-phobia anytime something happens in their country. Furthermore, BJP and Indian trolls […]
India said on Friday it was restoring 4G mobile internet in occupied Kashmir for the first time since August 2019, when the government withdrew the special rights of the restive Muslim-majority region. India Occupied Jammu and Kashmir was India’s only Muslim-majority state before Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist government split it into two, including […]
Pop sensation Rihanna supports the farmers, who are protesting in India, on Tuesday using her Twitter handle followed by millions. She took to Twitter and questioned the internet ban imposed in Haryana and parts of Delhi by the BJP government during the ongoing Farmer’s protest in the outskirts of Dehli against the center’s agricultural law. […]
Twitter has restored dozens of Indian accounts that were earlier blocked in response to legal notice by the government, citing objections based on public order. The accounts were all linked to continuing farmers’ protests against a series of agricultural reform laws. They included farmers’ leaders, activists, and a news magazine. The protests are now in […]
An Indian state blocked mobile internet across most of its districts on Friday, following clashes between protesting Indian farmers and groups of men shouting anti-farmer and pro-police slogans. Mobile internet in 15 of 22 districts in Haryana state bordering the capital New Delhi will be unavailable until 1700 local time on Saturday, according to a […]
India has decided to retain its ban on video app TikTok and 58 other Chinese apps after reviewing responses from the companies on issues such as compliance and privacy, two sources with direct knowledge of the matter told local news channel on Tuesday. When it first imposed the ban in June, India’s ministry of electronics […]
