Who is Pavel Durov, CEO of messaging app Telegram?Russian-born Durov, 39, is founder and owner of messaging app Telegram, a free to use platform that competes with other social media platfo...
26 Aug, 2024, 12.32 PM IST
Gerard Depardieu in legal trouble: French actor set to stand trial in October for sexual assault chargesFrench actor Gerard Depardieu is set to face trial in October for alleged sexual assaults against two women during a 2021 film shoot. The P...
30 Apr, 2024, 04.15 PM IST
Plane carrying 303 passengers, mostly Indians, allowed to leave after three days of grounding in FranceA Nicaragua-bound flight carrying 303 passengers, mostly Indians, was allowed to resume its journey after three days of grounding by French...
26 Dec, 2023, 05.24 PM IST
France grounds aircraft bound to Nicaragua with some 300 Indians on boardFrance has grounded a charter flight headed to Nicaragua carrying 303 Indian passengers, and a judicial investigation into the conditions a...
22 Dec, 2023, 09.54 PM IST
French police shoot hijab-wearing woman after she allegedly threatens to blow herself up in Paris metroIn the heart of Paris, a disturbance unfolded within the tranquil confines of thebehavior Metro. It involved a woman wearing a hijab who ex...
01 Nov, 2023, 11.39 PM IST
Palace of Versailles reopens after bomb scareThe Palace of Versailles in France briefly closed its doors to tourists due to security concerns following a bomb scare. A bomb squad was c...
17 Oct, 2023, 07.58 PM IST
Elon Musk to attend business conference in France and meet MacronMusk will also visit the sixth edition of the annual "Choose France" summit in Versailles, aimed at promoting France's attractiveness for i...
15 May, 2023, 12.32 PM IST
Ukraine war: German, French, Italian leaders headed for Kyiv to show solidarityBFM TV and other media onboard the train showed footage of the three leaders sat at the same table in the train. The train was due to arriv...
16 Jun, 2022, 06.00 PM IST
France's Emmanuel Macron maintains poll lead after TV clashMacron was seen as winning re-election with an unchanged 56% of the vote, according to a survey by OpinionWay/Kea Partners conducted betwee...
22 Apr, 2022, 09.51 AM IST
France fears over 100,000 daily cases by December 31France recorded almost 73,000 new infections on Tuesday, with an average of over 54,000 over the last seven days. But officials fear that t...
23 Dec, 2021, 12.16 AM IST
French court gives man who slapped Macron four months in jail, reports local mediaThe court gave Damien Tarel, 28, a fan of medieval swordsmanship and martial arts, a sentence of 18 months in jail, but 14 of those months ...
10 Jun, 2021, 08.55 PM IST
Two arrested after French President Macron slapped during crowd walkaboutMacron's security entourage quickly intervened to pull the man to the ground and move Macron away from him. Macron's entourage confirmed th...
09 Jun, 2021, 08.28 AM IST
Paris may face new lockdown as ICUs fill up"If we have to lock down, we will do it," the head of the national health agency, Jerome Salomon, said on BFM television Sunday. "The situa...
14 Mar, 2021, 08.02 PM IST
Paris widens restrictions amid worsening pandemic, more shops to closeHidalgo said this would entail shutting down certain shops selling takeaway food and drink at 10 p.m. local time, which would come on top o...
05 Nov, 2020, 02.17 PM IST
European stocks hit mid-June low on report France mulling national lockdownThe French government has been exploring a new, national lockdown from midnight on Thursday, BFM TV reported, albeit a slightly more flexib...
28 Oct, 2020, 02.12 PM IST
Dassault "confident" of Rafale deal with IndiaDassault Aviation said it was "very confident" that three years of talks with India on the sale of 126 Rafales worth 12 billion euros would...
13 Feb, 2015, 11.13 PM IST
France optimistic about Rafale jets deal with IndiaIndia had in 2012 selected the Rafale jet but the final negotiations are still continuing between the Defence Ministry and Dassault Aviatio...
05 Dec, 2014, 09.54 PM IST