COMMOTION erupted at “Miss Grand International 2024” beauty pageant today (Oct. 26) with the Myanmar national director grabbing and removing the crown and sash from his country’s contestant after she was named second-runner with Miss India Rachel Gupta having won the contest, Naewna newspaper said. The first runner-up is Miss Grand Philippines Christine Juliane
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India and Canada expel top diplomats over murder accusations
By BBC INDIA and Canada have expelled their top envoys along with other diplomats as the row intensifies over last year’s assassination of a Sikh separatist on Canadian soil. Trudeau said his government responded after police began pursuing credible allegations that Indian agents were directly involved in the killing of Hardeep Singh Nijjar. Canadian
Read moreIndian tourists in punchup with Thai youths
INDIAN tourists came to blows with some Thai youths believed to be running beach umbrella rentals on Phuket’s Karon beach after arguing for a while with photos of this fracas posted on Facebook, Naewna newspaper said today (Aug. 12). Photos of this brawl were shared by Phuket Times with an accompanying caption saying it
Read moreThai, Indian ministers hold key talks in Delhi
THAI Foreign Minister Maris Sangiampongsa held talks with Indian External Affairs Minister Dr S. Jaishankar in New Delhi during an official visit yesterday (July 12) which covered political, defence and security, trade and investment, physical and financial connectivity, tourism and people to people domains. In a social media post, Jaishankar said that as maritime
Read moreIndia’s Modi set for tougher ride after close election win
By AFP and published by CNA New Delhi – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi today (June 5) faced the prospects of a far tougher-than-expected third term after his party failed to secure an outright majority for the first time since sweeping to power a decade ago. The release of the results on Tuesday upended
Read moreIndia prepares for a severe cyclonic storm in the Bay of Bengal in coastal areas near Bangladesh
By AP and published by Yahoo!News, and Thai Newsroom New Delhi – India’s Kolkata airport will suspend flight operations from midnight Sunday (May 26) for 21 hours after a storm over the Bay of Bengal intensified into a severe cyclonic storm, airport authorities said. The cyclonic storm is expected to cross Bangladesh and India’s
Read moreIndia starts voting in the world’s largest election as Modi seeks a third term as PM
By AP and published by Yahoo!News New Delhi – Millions of Indians began voting today (Apr. 19) in a six-week election that’s a referendum on Narendra Modi, the populist prime minister who has championed an assertive brand of Hindu nationalist politics and is seeking a rare third term as the country’s leader. The voters
Read moreThai navy rescues ailing sailor for Indian ship
THE Thai navy quickly sent an emergency medical team on a boat to an Indian ship, a tanker named Sea Galaxy, and brought one of their sailors who had suffered stroke as it was passing through the Gulf of Thailand to Sattahip, Chonburi, for treatment last night, TV Channel 7 said early this morning
Read moreIndia tests missile capable of carrying multiple nuclear warheads
New Delhi – India has successfully test-fired a domestically developed ballistic missile capable of carrying multiple nuclear warheads for the first time, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said yesterday (Mar. 11.) Modi said he was “proud” the launch of “the first flight test of indigenously developed Agni-5 missile with Multiple Independently Targetable Re-entry Vehicle (MIRV)
Read moreHindu temple opened on old mosque site, fulfilling Modi’s election promise
By Geeta Pandey and Yogita Limaye, BBC Ayodhya, Indi – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has inaugurated a grand temple to Hindu god Ram in the flashpoint city of Ayodhya. He said it heralded “a new era” for India – the temple replaces a 16th-Century mosque torn down by Hindu mobs in 1992, sparking riots
Read moreIndian conglomerate Adani Group keen on investing in Land Bridge megaproject: PM
PRIME MINISTER Srettha Thavisin posted a message while attending the World Economic Forum 2024 at Davos, Switzerland, taking place during Jan. 15-19, that the Indian multinational conglomerate Adani Group is interested in the Land Bridge megaproject, Matichon newspaper said today (Jan. 18). During his last meeting of the day yesterday with Adani Group founder
Read moreIndian man plunges to death from Pattaya condo
A YOUNG Indian man holidaying in Pattaya died after falling from the 45th floor of a condominium late last night (Nov. 22) with his friends saying his death stemmed from a lovers’ quarrel, Naewna newspaper said this morning (Nov. 23). At 11 p.m. Pol. Lt. Manasak Phonyiam, deputy inspector for investigation at Pattaya City
Read moreBody of Indian man who jumped into river after killing ex-girlfriend found
THE BODY of a heart-broken Indian man who jumped in Bang Pakong river after killing his former girlfriend at a Pattaya hotel was found this morning (Nov. 21), TV Channel 7 said. At 1 a.m. today a police team started searching for the 36-year-old unidentified Indian man after finding the body of his 25-year-old
Read moreQuake jolts Andaman Islands, 669 km away from Phang Nga
A MAGNITUDE-5.1 earthquake occurred near the Andaman Islands, India, at around 6.21 p.m. local time today (Nov. 1) with the epicentre being approximately 669 km northwest of the Phang Nga’s capital district , Matichon newspaper and Crisis 24 Garda news site said. The Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation, Interior Ministry, said the quake
Read moreThailand to offer Indian, Taiwanese tourists visa-free entry
By Reuters and published by Swissinfo.ch THAILAND will waive visa requirements for arrivals from India and Taiwan from next month to May 2024, a government official said today (Oct. 31), in a bid to draw in more tourists as high season approaches. Thailand in September scrapped visa requirements for Chinese tourists, the country’s top
Read moreIndia or Bharat? A dinner invite sparks speculation amid push to rebrand the country
By AP and published by Toronto Star New Delhi – It began with a dinner invitation. How it ends could affect more than a billion people. State-issued invites sent to guests of this week’s G20 meeting referred to India’s president, Droupadi Murmu, as “President of Bharat.” Suddenly, in many circles, the question was everywhere:
Read moreChandrayaan-3 spacecraft lands on moon in ‘victory cry’ of new India
By Nivedita Bhattacharjee – Reuters and published by Yahoo!News Bengaluru – An Indian spacecraft landed on the moon today (Aug. 23) in a mission seen as crucial to lunar exploration and India’s standing as a space power, just days after a similar Russian lander crashed. Previously, only the United States, China and the former
Read moreRussia’s Luna-25 smashes into moon in failure
By Reuters and published by CNA Moscow – Russia’s first moon mission in 47 years failed after its Luna-25 spacecraft spun out of control and smashed into the moon after a problem preparing for pre-landing orbit, underscoring the post-Soviet decline of a once mighty space programme. Russia’s state space corporation, Roskosmos, said it had
Read moreShocking video emerges of sexual assault in India’s Manipur state amid ethnic violence
By Cherylann Mollan – BBC News and published by Yahoo!News Warning: This article contains details some readers may find distressing. Mumbai – A video showing two women being paraded naked by a mob in the north-eastern state of Manipur, hit by violent ethnic clashes, has sparked outrage in India. The police say they have
Read moreRemote Indian region is on the brink of civil war
By AP and published by Yahoo!News Kangval, India – Zuan Vaiphei is armed and prepared to kill. He is also ready to die. Vaiphei spends most of his days behind the sandbag walls of a makeshift bunker, his fingers resting on the trigger of a 12-gauge shotgun. Some 1,000 yards ahead of him, between
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