- Friday, April 11, 2025
INDIA'S space agency said it delayed the launch of its second lunar mission, Chandrayaan-2, in the early hours of Monday (15) due to a "technical snag" which was observed less than an hour before the scheduled liftoff. "A technical snag was observed in launch vehicle system at T-56 minute," the…
FLOODS have forced more than three million people from their homes across north and northeastern India, officials said on Monday (15), as the death toll in neighbouring Nepal and low-lying Bangladesh rose to 76 after days of heavy monsoon rains. Worst affected is the northern Indian state of Bihar, where…
INDIA'S retail inflation increased marginally to 3.18 per cent in June over the previous month, mainly due to a rise in food prices, according to official data. The retail inflation based on the Consumer Price Index (CPI) stood at 3.05 per cent in May and 4.92 per cent in June…
US and Indian trade negotiators ended talks on Friday (12) without making major progress on a range of disputes over tariffs and other protectionist measures imposed by both sides that are straining bilateral ties, according to officials with knowledge of the discussions. Many of the toughest questions on agricultural commodities,…
AN LGBTI job fair, billed by organisers as the first such event in India, attracted more than 250 people on Friday (12) looking for employment with companies including Intel, Goldman Sachs and Uber. The event in the southern city of Bengaluru comes after India's top court, Supreme Court overruled a…
PAKISTAN has told India that it will not open its airspace for commercial flights until New Delhi removes its fighter jets from forward IAF airbases, Pakistan's Aviation Secretary Shahrukh Nusrat has informed a parliamentary committee. Pakistan fully closed its airspace on February 26 after the Indian Air Force (IAF) fighter…
INDIAN authorities on Thursday (11) filled tanks with water and loaded them onto a train in the southern state of Tamil Nadu to supply its manufacturing capital Chennai where reservoirs have run dry. Technicians in the railway station at Jolarpettai, located over 135 miles (217 kilometres) from Chennai, worked from…
THE Indian government has plans to raise as much as Rs 3.25 trillion (£37.82billion) in the next five years by reducing its stakes in some large state-owned firms to 40 per cent, two senior government officials said, in the nation's biggest privatisation push in more than two decades. Last week,…
CONSTABLE Meena Ghodke may be in the bottom rank of her local police force but it is the highest anyone has climbed in her village - man or woman - and she could not be prouder. Not for Ghodke the usual wrench from school to farm work, early marriage and…
CRICKET-mad Indians tried Thursday (11) to come to terms with their shock World Cup exit, with the Times of India telling readers "The Sun will still rise tomorrow" and Ravindra Jadeja emerging as a new national hero. The defeat to New Zealand in Wednesday's semi-final came after a top-order batting…
