The Biden administration reiterated that Pakistani-origin Canadian businessman Tahawwur Rana be extradited to India for his involvement in the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks and urged a US court in California to deny the writ of habeas corpus filed by him.
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Delhi, Mumbai may get more British Airways flights, as the airline aims to benefit from stronger India-UK trade ties
India and the UK are looking to significantly increase bilateral trade; British Airways wants to be a part of the growth story. It has opened a new call centre in India and plans to increase flights from Delhi and Mumbai.
Twitter’s ‘haha’ moment: Mumbai station gets a free ‘waterfall’, like what Changi airport in Singapore got for a billion dollars
The ‘haha’ moment on Twitter was shared by industrialist Harsh Goenka, who tweeted a video of the Byculla ‘waterfall’ and wrote that the suburban train station was “remodelled” on the lines of Changi.
ICC rejects Pakistan’s objections about cricket World Cup match venues
The International Cricket Council (ICC) rejected all objections raised by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) regarding the schedule and venues for their national team matches in the ODI World Cup in India.
5-year-old Indian girl raises the tricolour at Everest Base Camp
Prisha’s father Lokesh Nikajoo is a trained climber. The child covered 130km in 12 days with him before she could proudly display the national flag of India.
Cyclone Biparjoy races towards landfall; high waves hit western coast of India
It is predicted that Biparjoy would make landfall near Jakhau port in Gujarat on June 15. However, the coastal areas near Karachi have also braced for the cyclone’s landfall.
Offbeat India: Woman cries ‘bomb’ at Mumbai airport to wriggle out of paying excess baggage fee
Her bags exceeded the airline’s checked-in baggage weight limit by more than 7kg — the limit was 15kg, and her two bags had a combined weight of just over 22kg.
Aryan Khan case officer Sameer Wankhede, under probe over INR25 crore bribe demand, gets relief from Bombay HC
Sameer Wankhede, the former Mumbai zonal director of the Narcotics Control Bureau, under whose watch star son Aryan Khan was caught for narcotics possession, moved Bombay High Court with an application to quash the corruption case filed against him by the CBI.
Tim Cook welcomes customers at Apple’s first Indian store in Mumbai
A massive crowd gathered at Mumbai’s Bandra Kurla Complex today as Apple CEO Tim Cook threw open the gates to the company’s first store in India.
Heat wave in India: 11 dead due to sunstroke at Maharashtra government award event
Eleven people succumbed to heatstroke yesterday during a Maharashtra Bhushan award event attended by Indian Home Minister Amit Shah and Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Sinde and Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis in Mumbai.
