- Tuesday, February 25, 2025
Boeing may bag an order soon for about 70 to 80 737 MAX jets from Indian billionaire Rakesh Jhunjhunwala’s start-up Akasa Air, Bloomberg News on Thursday (11) reported citing informed sources. A deal on this could be unveiled during the Dubai Airshow, which is taking off on Sunday (14). ALSO…
THE EFG London Jazz Festival returns with live performances after last year's digital version - with an exciting line-up of global stars including jazz icons and the most exciting new talents from the UK and beyond. EFG London Jazz Festival 2021 is back with a complete experience of 300 shows…
SEPOY Balwant Singh, a 97-year-old Indian veteran who lost a leg during World War II (1939-45) in Italy has won a battle for a bigger pension which was earlier denied to soldiers who were injured before the country achieved independence in 1947, AFP reported. Singh was one among the millions…
THE International Solar Alliance (ISA) led by India and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) on Friday (12) signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) at the COP26 (United Nations Climate Change Conference) summit, agreeing to collaborate and support nations in the implementation of an ambitious national climate action…
INDIA'S external affairs minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar on Friday (12) met a delegation of the US Congress in New Delhi and exchanged views on bilateral cooperation and regional issues, including Indo-Pacific and Afghanistan. Jaishankar tweeted after meeting the delegation led by Republican senator John Cornyn, “Pleased to meet US Congress Delegation…
FORMER Australian prime minister Paul Keating on Wednesday (10) spoke on a wide range of issues during a conversation with senior journalist and author Laura Tingle at the National Press Club in Canberra where he raised finger at Indian prime minister Narendra Modi on the question of human rights abuse.…
INDIA'S petroleum ministry has asked the state-run Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) to consider selling a 60 per cent stake in its two major oil and gas fields to private players to boost output, Reuters cited a government source as saying on Thursday (11). India, which is the world’s…
RAHUL Gandhi, the former president of the Indian National Congress, India’s main opposition party, on Friday (12) slammed the Narendra Modi government saying the latter has no strategy to deal with China which is leaving the country’s national security “unpardonably compromised”. Gandhi cited a news report in which India’s ministry…
INDIA'S start-up ecosystem offers huge opportunities to Korean investors and both the countries need to raise collaboration in sectors such as textiles, automobile, food processing and chemicals to enhance their economic ties, India’s commerce and industry minister Piyush Goya on Friday (12) said at the fourth edition of India-Korea Business…
INDIAN prime minister Narendra Modi on Friday (12) lauded the use of Unified Payments Interface (UPI) across the country and said digital transactions in India have gone up by 19 times in the last seven years. “UPI has become the world’s leading country in terms of digital transactions in a…
