Business

Jet Airways selling its Netherlands business to KLM

Editorial Bureau January 17, 2020

BENGALURU- India’s bankrupt airline Jet Airways has agreed to sell the brand’s Netherlands assets to Dutch airline KLM. If finalised, the deal will only involve the sale of a part of its business and will not have an impact on the shareholding pattern. Jet did not detail the assets

Asia

Anti-Modi mantra resonates at nationwide protests in India

Editorial Bureau January 15, 2020

MUMBAI/NEW DELHI- Standing on a stage in the centre of one of India’s most prestigious universities, the firebrand politician looked out at the cheering supporters before him and issued a sharp challenge to Prime Minister Narendra Modi. “The idea of India is under threat,” said Kanhaiya Kumar, a leftist politician from the northeastern state of […]

Asia

India’s top court says Kashmir’s indefinite internet shutdown was unwarranted

Editorial Bureau January 10, 2020

NEW DELHI- India’s Supreme Court said on Friday that the indefinite shutdown of the internet in Kashmir was unwarranted, rebuking the government for the communications lockdown imposed after it withdrew the Muslim majority region’s autonomy in August. The court said the indefinite suspension violated India’s telecoms rules, and ordered authorities in

Asia

Students, youth wing of pro-ruling party outfit clash in Delhi

Editorial Bureau January 6, 2020

NEW DELHI- Clashes broke out late on Sunday between students of New Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), who were protesting against a fee hike, and youth wing members of a group closely tied to India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), injuring over a dozen people, witnesses and officials said. Sahiba Mazid, who spoke by telephone […]

Asia

Indian protesters borrow a page from Hong Kong and beyond

Editorial Bureau January 4, 2020

NEW DELHI/BENGALURU- Before midnight on New Year’s Eve, a call to action was sent on a private WhatsApp group – within the hour, dozens gathered in the centre of the southern Indian city of Hyderabad, many holding banners to protest a controversial new citizenship law. Police quickly dispersed the group and briefly detained six people, […]

Sport

Kumar: World Cup thoughts can wait, need to be injury-free first

Editorial Bureau December 30, 2019

NEW DELHI- Injured Indian seamer Bhuvaneshwar Kumar said that he was not thinking about the Australia Twenty20 World Cup yet and his priority is to get fit first. Kumar’s sports hernia has forced him to lay low, this is the latest of a series of injuries which kept the right-arm bowler out of the West […]

Asia

Modi says citizenship law not anti-Muslim as protests continue across India

Editorial Bureau December 29, 2019

NEW DELHI- Following days of violent, sometimes deadly protests across India against a new citizenship law critics say discriminates against Muslims, Prime Minister Narendra Modi led a rally on Sunday for his Hindu nationalist party in the capital. New Delhi’s state election early next year will be the first major electoral test for Modi’s Bharatiya […]

Sport

Paes, 46, announces 2020 will be his final year as a professional

Editorial Bureau December 26, 2019

India’s veteran tennis player Leander Paes announced on Wednesday that 2020 would be his “farewell year” as a professional before he hangs up his racket. The 46-year-old, who started his professional career in 1991, has won 18 doubles and mixed doubles Grand Slam titles and a bronze medal in the singles at the 1996 Atlanta […]

Asia

Blindspot to backlash: India’s Modi and party misread the mood

Editorial Bureau December 26, 2019

MUMBAI- Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government did not anticipate the protests against a new citizenship law that have raged across the country and is now scrambling to control the damage, members of his ruling party said. In Modi’s biggest challenge since taking office in 2014, hundreds of thousands have protested against the law offering […]

Asia

Singapore police probe Indian for alleged Modi citizenship law protest

Editorial Bureau December 26, 2019

SINGAPORE- Singapore police are investigating an Indian national for allegedly being involved in a public protest against Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s controversial citizenship law. Unauthorised public assemblies and protests over political situations in other countries are banned in Singapore. Hundreds of thousands of people have taken to Indian streets to