- Wednesday, February 26, 2025
INDIA received $87 billion (£64.5 billion) in remittances in 2021 with the US being the biggest source, accounting for over 20 per cent of these funds, according to the World Bank. India is followed by China, Mexico, the Philippines, and Egypt, the Washington-based global lender said in its report. In…
ACE India badminton player PV Sindhu on Friday (19) registered a dominant win over Tukey’s Neslihan Yigit to enter the semi-finals of the women’s singles section of the Indonesia Master Super 750 badminton tournament in Bali. The reigning world champion and two-time Olympic medallist, which is seeded third in the…
THE Golden Temple in Amritsar in the northern Indian state of Punjab was on Friday (19) illuminated on the occasion of Guru Nanak Jayanti (birth anniversary). On the occasion, devotees were seen offering prayers at the gurdwara where they also lit lamps. A display of fireworks also took place. One…
FORMER South Africa captain AB de Villiers on Friday (19) announced retirement from all forms of cricket. The explosive batter, who played in the Indian Premier League till this season, last appeared for his country in Tests in April 2018 when they played Australia in Johannesburg. In one-day internationals, he…
THE Narendra Modi government’s decision to repeal three central farm laws is “very unfortunate” as the “political move” will neither end the farmers’ agitation nor will help the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party in the upcoming elections in the northern Indian states of Uttar Pradesh and Punjab, a member of the…
INDIA has plans to tighten regulation of cryptocurrencies to stop investors from holding them even though its government is least likely to go ahead with an earlier plan to put a ban on private digital coins, Reuters said citing two informed sources. The government could allow only those that it…
FORMER Indian National Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Friday (19) praised India’s farmers saying they made “arrogance bow its head” through “satyagraha” after the country’s Narendra Modi government decided to repeal three controversial farm laws that saw the peasants protesting for several months. The 51-year-old leader’s remarks came after Modi…
The European Union (EU) has imposed tariffs on imports of cold-rolled flat stainless steel products from India and Indonesia after an investigation found that they were being sold at prices artificially lowered, Reuters reported. The European Commission, which conducted the probe, has set duties of 10.2 per cent for IRNC,…
BRITISH ASIAN businesses increased their wealth and rose to unprecedented challenges during the pandemic – as the latest Asian Rich List exclusively reveals. The annual, glossy publication shows the total estimated wealth of the 101 profiled in this year’s list – the first since the global pandemic took hold in…
INDIA'S external affairs minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar on Friday (19) said that India and China are going through a “particularly bad patch” in their ties since Beijing has taken actions in violation of agreements for which it still doesn’t have a “credible explanation” and it is left to the Chinese leadership…
