- Wednesday, April 02, 2025
INDIA’S commercial solar developer, CleanMax Solar has raised £30 million in equity funding from the UK Climate Investments (UKCI), the British company said today (23). The British firm will assist CleanMax Solar by providing it with the capital needed to expand its network of private solar farms across the country.…
THE total number of Indians who killed in a series of deadly suicide blasts in Sri Lanka has rose to 10 on Tuesday (23). Earlier, eight Indian nationals were confirmed dead in a string of devastating suicide blasts tore through churches and luxury hotels across the island nation on Easter…
INDIAN officials travelled nearly 70 kilometre through lion-infested jungle this week to ensure a 69-year-old holy man got his change to take part in the world’s biggest democratic exercise. A four-member team of election officials, accompanied by a policeman, set up a special polling station deep in the Gir wildlife…
VOTING began in the third and largest phase of India’s staggered general election today (23), including in prime minister Narendra Modi’s home state of Gujarat and in opposition Congress party chief Rahul Gandhi’s seat in southern Indian state of Kerala. In all, 188 million voters are eligible to cast ballots…
SRI LANKAN police detained a Syrian among 40 people being questioned about the Easter Sunday attacks on churches and hotels, government and military sources said on Tuesday (23), as the toll from the coordinated bomb attacks rose to 321. No group has claimed responsibility for the attacks, which officials said…
INDIA will get additional supplies from other major oil producing countries to compensate for the loss of Iranian oil, India’s petroleum and natural gas minister Dharmendra Pradhan said today (23). The United States on Monday (22) demanded that buyers of Iranian oil stop purchases by May 1 or face sanctions,…
FRANCE will ban the use of titanium dioxide as a food additive from 2020 after the country's health and safety agency said there was not enough evidence to guarantee the safety of the substance. Titanium dioxide is widely used in industry as a whitener, notably for paint, and in the…
US president Donald Trump has decided to eliminate all waivers issued to eight economies including India allowing them to buy Iranian oil without facing US sanctions, the White House said today (22), while vowing to ensure global oil market was well supplied. Secretary of state Mike Pompeo is expected to…
THE number of British nationals who killed following the deadly Easter Sunday (21) attacks in Sri Lanka has climbed to eight. At least eight UK citizens including two with joint US citizenship were killed in the island nation following the series brutal attacks, media reports said today (22). Sri Lankan…
AT LEAST five workers from an Indian political party on a break after working on India’s general election were among some 290 people killed in bomb attacks in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday (21), a government official said. Another two from a seven-member group from the party, the Janata Dal…
