- Sunday, April 06, 2025
INDIA and Bangladesh have signed an agreement to operationalise five new ports of call and two new protocol routes to boost the bilateral trade. With this, the ports of call between the two countries has increased to 11 from six earlier while two more extended ports of call have been…
BILLIONAIRE Anil Agarwal is in talks with several banks for loans worth $2.5 billion to help finance the delisting offer of Vedanta. On 12 May, Vedanta Resources, the promoter entity of Vedanta Limited, had informed stock exchanges that it will delist the latter. Vedanta has offered public shareholders, who collectively hold 49…
ONLINE food delivery firms Zomato and Swiggy have started home-delivery of liquor in India amid the COVID-19 lockdown. The service started in the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand. Recently, India’s supreme court has directed states to consider home-delivery of liquor during the lockdown. The Jharkhand government has collaborated with the…
AT LEAST 22 people died as the fiercest cyclone to hit parts of Bangladesh and eastern India this century sent trees flying and flattened houses, with millions crammed into shelters despite the risk of COVID-19. Millions were left without power after Cyclone Amphan, packing winds of around 150 kilometres per…
Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook are social media platforms through which the actors try to stay connected with their fans. Mostly all the Bollywood stars are active on social media and keep on posting pictures, videos, and a lot of things about their day-to-day life. However, there are some celebs who…
INDIA’s Hero Motors Company (HMC) Group sees immense business potential in the UK’s new Cycle to Work scheme, launched as part of a plan to ease Britain out of the Covid-19 lockdown without overcrowding the public transport network. Under the scheme, the UK government had recently unveiled plans for pop-up…
THE death toll due to COVID-19 rose to 3,435 and the number of cases to 1,12,359 in India on Thursday (21), registering an increase of 132 deaths and 5,609 cases in the last 24 hours, according to the health ministry. The number of active COVID-19 cases stood at 63,624, while 45,299…
Former Sri Lankan prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has praised K K Shailaja, health minister in the Southern Indian state of Kerala, for her proactive and bold leadership in curbing the spread of the COVID-19 in the state. Kerala reported India’s first coronavirus case in January. But the state has recorded…
NEPAL has drawn-up a new political map that includes strategically important territory it disputes with India, officials said, as the Himalayan country takes a tougher stance against its giant neighbour. Protests have been staged in Nepal since India earlier this month inaugurated an 80-kilometre (50 mile) road in Uttarakhand state…
By Imtiaz Ahmed, Mission Head – Agecare, HelpAge India I FEEL an overwhelming sense of dread at the moment. The number of Covid-19 cases in India is surging every day, taking the total over 100,000. Now that the lockdown is being relaxed, I fear these numbers will significantly increase. I…
