- Saturday, April 05, 2025
The future of top regional budget carrier AirAsia is in “significant doubt” after the collapse in travel demand caused by coronavirus, its auditor warned, sending the airline’s share price tumbling nearly 18 percent on Wednesday. The aviation industry is facing its biggest-ever crisis due to the pandemic, with airlines worldwide…
India has emerged as the most attractive global market for clean energy, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Friday. Launching a 750 MW solar project in Rewa in Madhya Pradesh through video-conferencing, Modi also said the state will emerge as a major hub for clean and cheap power in the…
On 10th July 2015, SS Rajamouli’s Baahubali: The Beginning had hit the screens. The film received an amazing response, and even the Hindi dubbed version did quite well at the box office. Well, the film made Prabhas a household name, and now, he is a pan India star as well as quite famous…
THE World Health Organization has released new guidelines on the transmission of the novel coronavirus that acknowledge reports of airborne transmission of the virus that causes Covid-19, but stopped short of confirming that the virus spreads through the air. In its latest transmission guidance, the WHO acknowledged that some outbreak reports related to indoor…
INDIA’s Covid-19 tally reached 793,802 on Friday (10) with record 26,506 new cases reported in a day. The country registered its first case on January 30. The country reported 475 fresh deaths due to the pandemic in a day. The disease claimed 21,604 lives so far. The tally of active cases…
INDIAN police shot dead on Friday (10) a man who had been accused of ordering the killing of eight policemen when he tried to flee from officers who had taken him into custody after he surrendered, officials said. Vikas Dubey, who was on the run for over a week after…
BP has paid Reliance Industries $1 billion (£792 million) to set up a joint network of thousands of petrol stations across India to tap the country’s rapidly growing energy demand. BP will hold 49 per cent and Reliance the remaining 51 per cent in the new company called Jio-bp, which…
THOUSANDS of workers at the famed diamond units of Surat in Gujarat are leaving the city as the pandemic has left them in penury. Over 600,000 people were employed in more than 9,000 stone-cutting and polishing units in Surat, known worldwide for its $24 billion diamond industry. With the national…
A Bihar court on Wednesday (8) dismissed a petition seeking registration of cases against Bollywood bigwigs like Salman Khan, Ekta Kapoor, Sanjay Leela Bhansali and Karan Johar for allegedly abetting actor Sushant Singh Rajput’s suicide, citing jurisdictional limitations. Chief judicial magistrate of Muzaffarpur Mukesh Kumar dismissed the petition filed by…
India’s cricket chief Sourav Ganguly said on Wednesday (8) the Asia Cup Twenty20 tournament has been called off amid the coronavirus pandemic. The event, which had Pakistan as original hosts, was scheduled for September with the United Arab Emirates and Sri Lanka frontrunners to stage the tournament. “Asia Cup has…
