- Monday, April 14, 2025
India’s enormous railway network tentatively ground back to life Tuesday as a gradual lifting of the world’s biggest coronavirus lockdown gathered pace even as new cases surged. The country of 1.3 billion imposed a strict shutdown in late March, which prime minister Narendra Modi’s government has credited with keeping cases…
THE London High Court has awarded a £60 million divorce settlement to an interior designer following a “bitter break-up” with her multi-millionaire Indian businessman husband. Simrin Choudhrie had fought a long legal battle with Bhanu Choudhrie, who had earlier tried to legally gag her from revealing “pillow talk” information after…
By Amit Roy THE UK’s investment minister, Lord Gerry Grimstone, has thanked India “from my heart” for helping to save British lives during the current pandemic by sending vital medicines and drugs. Lord Grimstone was speaking last week at the launch of the 2020 India meets Britain tracker report, which…
INDIAN Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Wednesday (13) announced collateral-free loans worth Rs 3,000 billion for small businesses, infused liquidity into non-banking companies to help them tide over the coronavirus crisis. Announcing the first set of components of the Rs 20,000 billion economic stimulus package announced by the Prime Minister…
IN a relief to taxpayers, the India government on Wednesday (13) extended the deadline for filing of all income tax returns for 2019-20 fiscal till November 30, 2020. Announcing a slew of relief measures for the coronavirus-hit economy, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman also slashed TDS (tax deducted at source)/TCS (Tax…
AS INDIA is all set to enter into the fourth phase of its lockdown imposed to contain the spread of Covid-19, the number of infections has jumped to 74,281, claiming at least 2,415 lives, the health ministry said on Wednesday (13). The country registered 122 fresh deaths and 3,525 new cases…
INDIAN Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday announced that all canteens of the Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs) will sell only indigenous products from June 1 to over 50 lakh family members of about 10 lakh personnel. In a series of tweets in Hindi, Shah said the decision has been…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Tuesday that India would provide about Rs 20 trillion (£216 billion) in fiscal and monetary measures to support an economy battered by a sweeping weeks-long lockdown to fight the novel coronavirus. Media reports noted that India's "Atma-nirbhar Bharat Abhiyan or Self-reliant Bharat Mission" package -- 10…
Air India is planning to operate 149 repatriation flights to 31 countries between May 16 and May 22 during the second phase of the Vande Bharat mission to bring back home Indians stranded abroad amid the coronavirus-triggered lockdown, officials said. During the first phase of the Vande Bharat mission, Air India and its subsidiary…
AT LEAST 30,000 British travellers have now returned to the UK on 142 special flights from 27 countries since the outbreak of coronavirus, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office said on Monday (11). At least 13,500 British nationals stranded in India flew back on 58 flights since April 8. The 30,000th…
