India's six-week election resumed Monday including in Kashmir, where voters appeared eager to express discontent with Prime Minister Narendra Modi's cancellation of their disputed territory's semi-autonomy and the security crackdown that followed. Modi remains popular across much of India and his Hindu-nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is widely expected to win the poll when it [...]
There has been a rise in demand for fish-based value-added products in Seychelles over the years and there is a need for more of these types of products in the market, according to a top official of the Seychelles Fishing Authority (SFA). The head of the Product Development and Quality Assurance Department, Margaret Ally, told [...]
IndiGo, one of the fastest growing air carriers from India, intends to launch flights to Seychelles in October 2024, according to the Seychelles Civil Aviation Authority (SCAA). The authority announced on Friday that this follows bilateral aviation talks between Seychelles and India last week. The airline is expected to conduct three weekly flights to the [...]
Russia said Sunday it had captured four more villages in Ukraine's Kharkiv region, as thousands of residents were evacuated from the offensive in an area where Russian troops were repelled in 2022. President Volodymyr Zelensky said "fierce fighting" was under way and governor Oleg Synegubov said "all areas" of the regional border with Russia were [...]
The number of people killed by flash floods and cold lava flow from a volcano in western Indonesia over the weekend has risen to 41 with 17 more missing, a local disaster agency official told AFP Monday. Hours of heavy rain caused large volcanic rocks to roll down one of Indonesia's most active volcanos into [...]
Emergency aid and rescue teams struggled on Sunday to reach areas of northern Afghanistan hardest hit by flash floods that killed hundreds, AFP journalists saw. Heavy rains caused flash flooding in several provinces in Afghanistan on Friday. Northern Baghlan was the worst impacted, with efforts to deliver aid hampered by destruction to roads and bridges [...]
In an effort to develop local young leaders in the hospitality industry, Hilton Seychelles has created an 18-month programme, said a top official. The manager for cluster learning and development for Hilton Seychelles, Medna Latulipe, said that this programme is designed for local talents to be developed to take up key positions in the food and [...]
The UN General Assembly voted overwhelmingly Friday to grant the Palestinians additional rights in the global body and backed their drive for full membership, which is blocked by the United States. Israel's UN ambassador Gilad Erdan reacted angrily to the largely symbolic vote, while Palestinian ambassador to the UN Riyad Mansour said it was historic. [...]
Angelina Smythe capped off an impressive performance at the 2024 Association of National Olympic Committees of Africa (ANOCA ) Games for Zone 7 by winning a fifth gold medal for Seychelles in swimming on the final day of competition on Friday. Smythe’s final gold medal came in the girls’ 200m individual medley event, where she [...]
The Seychelles Investment Board (SIB) has confirmed that the tender process for Zone B in the Victoria Waterfront project will be relaunched following some objections put forward through the appeal process. The SIB chief executive, Anne Rosette, said that the appeal process was done after the selection of bidders at the beginning of March. Aimed at [...]
