July 17, 2025 | Swachh Shehars
July 18, 2025
PM Modi launches ₹5,400 crore development projects in Durgapur, boosting West Bengal’s infrastructure and economic growth
Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid the foundation stone, inaugurated, and dedicated development projects worth over ₹5,400 crore in Durgapur, West Bengal, marking a significant step toward strengthen...
July 18, 2025
India scales up crackdown on narcotics with stronger rehabilitation and community efforts
India has ramped up its fight against drug trafficking and abuse, adopting a zero-tolerance policy backed by structural, institutional, and community-driven reforms. In 2024 alone, Indian law enforcement agencies seized narcotics worth ₹25,330 crore—a 55% ...
July 18, 2025
India reaffirms commitment to ‘Pact for Future’ at UN dialogue
India reiterated its strong commitment to the Pact for the Future and its annexes, the Global Digital Compact (GDC) and the Declaration on Future Generations, during the third interactive informal dialogue held to review the pact. Describing the initiative as...
July 18, 2025
UAE and WHO Complete Major Health Assessment Phase in Yemen’s Socotra Island
Field teams from the United Arab Emirates and the World Health Organization have successfully completed the first phase of a comprehensive health assessment on Socotra Island in Yemen, conducted in cl...
July 18, 2025
Piyush Goyal holds talks with Saudi investment minister to boost India-Saudi trade ties
Union Minister of Commerce and Industry Piyush Goyal held talks on Thursday with Saudi Arabia's Minister of Investment, Khalid Al-Falih, to strengthen trade and investment relations between the two countries. The virtual discussion focused on enhancing econom...
July 18, 2025
Torrential rain pounds South Korea for third day as thousands take shelter
More than 5,000 people in South Korea have been forced into shelters as heavy rain pounded parts of the country for a third day, with the deluge killing at least four people and destroying property and infrastructure, the safety ministry said on Friday. Torre...
July 18, 2025
UAE and WHO Complete Major Health Assessment Phase in Yemen’s Socotra Island
Field teams from the United Arab Emirates and the World Health Organization have successfully completed the first phase of a comprehensive health assessment on Socotra Island in Yemen, conducted in cl...
July 18, 2025
Israel strikes Gaza Catholic church, killing three
An Israeli strike on Gaza's sole Catholic Church killed three people and injured several others, the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem, which oversees the small parish, said on Thursday. The Patriarchate condemned "this targeting of innocent civilians and of a ...
July 18, 2025
Piyush Goyal holds talks with Saudi investment minister to boost India-Saudi trade ties
Union Minister of Commerce and Industry Piyush Goyal held talks on Thursday with Saudi Arabia's Minister of Investment, Khalid Al-Falih, to strengthen trade and investment relations between the two countries. The virtual discussion focused on enhancing econom...
July 17, 2025
UK to lower voting age to 16 in landmark electoral reform
The British government said on Thursday it planned to give 16 and 17-year-olds the right to vote in all UK elections in a major overhaul of the country's democratic system. The government said the pr...
July 17, 2025
Trump says India trade agreement is close, Europe deal possible
The United States is very close to a trade deal with India, while an agreement could possibly be reached with Europe as well, but it is too soon to say whether a deal can be agreed with Canada, President Donald Trump said in an interview aired on Real America'...
July 16, 2025
Russia attacks Ukraine with hundreds of drones, energy infrastructure hit
Russia attacked cities across Ukraine overnight with hundreds of drones and a missile strike, hitting energy infrastructure and wounding at least 15 people, authorities said on Wednesday. Ukraine's air force said Russia launched 400 drones and one ballistic m...
July 18, 2025
Lula says he won’t take orders from foreigner Trump, calls tariffs blackmail
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Thursday said he would not take orders over tariffs from a foreigner, referring to U.S. President Donald Trump, and later called the United States' thr...
July 17, 2025
Trump says Coca-Cola agreed to use real cane sugar in US
President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that Coca-Cola had agreed to use cane sugar in its beverages in the U.S. after his discussions with the company. "I have been speaking to Coca-Cola about using REAL Cane Sugar in Coke in the United St...
July 17, 2025
Trump says he’s not planning to fire Fed’s Powell
U.S. President Donald Trump said Wednesday he is not planning to fire Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, but he kept the door open to the possibility and renewed his criticism of the central bank chief for not lowering interest rates. A Bloomberg report ear...
July 14, 2025
Nigeria’s former President Muhammadu Buhari dies in London, PM Modi offers condolences
Nigeria's former president, Muhammadu Buhari, who led Africa's most populous country from 2015 to 2023 and was the first Nigerian president to oust an incumbent through the ballot box, died in London ...
July 8, 2025
South Africa says Trump’s 30% tariff based on inaccurate view of their trade relations
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa pushed back against U.S. President Donald Trump's imposition of a 30% tariff, saying that it was based on an inaccurate understanding of the two countries' trade and that negotiations with the U.S. would continue...
July 4, 2025
PM Modi announces OCI Cards for 6th-generation Indians in Trinidad & Tobago
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, during his address to the Indian community in Trinidad and Tobago on Thursday, announced that sixth-generation members of the Indian diaspora in the country will now be eligible for Overseas Citizenship of India (OCI) cards. “T...
