United States Federal Reserve has raised interest rates for the first time since 2018 as it approved a rate hike of 0.23 percent or 25 basis points. The announcement...
Author: ION correspondent
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has reiterated that India would continue to stand with the friendly people of Sri Lanka. Mr Modi was speaking to Finance Minister of Sri Lanka...
Four people were killed and 97 others injured in a powerful 7.4 magnitude earthquake that struck off the coast of Fukushima in northern Japan last night. Prime Minister, Fumio...
Israel said that it had recorded two cases of a new Covid variant. “This variant is still unknown around the world,” Israel’s ministry of health said in a statement....
Russia Ukraine War
US, EU impose new sanctions against Russian individuals and entities; Russia counter-sanctions US President Biden, other top officials
New US sanctions have targeted more individuals in Russian government, including its senior military officials and the leader of Kremlin-allied Belarus. Some of the new sanctions were brought under...
Assam Diary
Entertainment & Arts
Assam government employees to get half-day leave to watch ‘The Kashmir Files’
Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Tuesday announced that state government employees can avail a half-day leave to watch the recently released movie “The Kashmir Files”, which is based...
Business and Commerce
Kapil Sibal’s ‘Gandhis should step aside’ remark draws flak from party members
Kapil Sibal on Tuesday said that he wants a ‘Sab ki Congress’ and expressed that the ‘Gandhis should step aside’. The senior Congress leader drew flak from his party...
Punjab Chief Minister-designate Bhagwant Mann will take oath as CM on Wednesday at Khatar Kalan, the birthplace of legendary freedom fighter Bhagat Singh. Through a video released on Twitter...
A recent media report has said that India is near clinching a cope with Russia for getting 3.5 million barrels of its crude at “deep reductions”. The report published...
The hijab is not an essential religious practice, the Karnataka High Court said as it backed a ban on hijabs in classrooms on Tuesday, weeks after violent protests in...