- Thursday, February 27, 2025
INDIA will have a new safety rating system for passenger cars from October based on tests, including crashes from the front and side, to make its cars and roads safer, the country’s ministry of road transport and highways said on Tuesday (22). India, the world’s third largest car market, has…
A WORLD Championships gold is the only medal missing in Neeraj Chopra’s decorated cabinet and the superstar Indian javelin thrower will fancy his chances as no clear-cut favourite has emerged ahead of the showpiece in Budapest. Chopra, 25, has won gold medals in Olympics (Tokyo in 2021), Asian Games (2018)…
Business and trade secretary, Kemi Badenoch, introduced the “Alive with Opportunity” campaign on Thursday (24). The aim of the campaign is to facilitate the augmentation of trade with India by 2030, employing a range of focused trade missions tailored for UK enterprises operating within rapidly expanding industries. The cabinet minister,…
RISHI SUNAK has apologised to the UK parliamentary watchdog after an investigation concluded that the prime minister’s failure to declare wife Akshata Murty’s relevant business interest arose “out of confusion” and was “inadvertent”. The Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards, Daniel Greenberg, had opened an inquiry into allegations that when discussing the…
INDIA began exploring the Moon’s surface with a rover on Thursday (24), a day after it became the first nation to land a craft near the largely unexplored lunar south pole. Pragyan — “Wisdom” in Sanskrit — rolled out of the lander hours after the latest milestone in India’s ambitious…
PRIME MINISTER Rishi Sunak did not properly declare his wife’s shareholding in a childcare company which stood to benefit from new government policy but the failure was inadvertent, parliament’s standards watchdog said on Wednesday (23). Parliament’s Commissioner for Standards began investigating Sunak in April, after opposition parties raised questions over…
LABOUR’S shadow business minister, Seema Malhotra, has backed calls for greater trade links between Britain and India on a visit to Tamil Nadu and Kerala this month. Malhotra, who represents Feltham and Heston in London, visited both states ahead of India hosting the G20 summit in September. In June, party…
SENIOR NHS doctors in England will strike for three consecutive days during the ruling Conservative Party’s annual conference in October, the British Medical Association (BMA) said in a statement to Reuters on Thursday. The strikes from Oct. 2-4 would be the longest period of action so far, the BMA said.…
The 69th National Film Awards will be announced on Thursday during a press conference by the Jury at the National Media Center, New Delhi. Many names are going around and the official announcement is awaited. This year Alia Bhatt and Kangana Ranaut’s names are doing the rounds on social media…
Veteran actor Seema Deo, remembered for her roles in Anand and Kora Kagaz, died in Mumbai on Thursday morning due to age-related ailments, her filmmaker son Abhinay Deo said. She was 81. The actor, who acted in over 80 Hindi and Marathi films, passed away at her Bandra home. She had been suffering…
