- Tuesday, February 25, 2025
TATA Sons has won the bid for acquiring national carrier Air India for Rs 18,000 crore (£1.7 billion), the Indian government announced on Friday (8). The transaction is set to be completed by December, department of investment and public asset management secretary Tuhin Kanta Pandey said. The bid was filed…
AFTER having suffered jolts due to pullouts of two major international teams, Pakistan Cricket has been left licking its wounds but the chairman of its cricket board has tried to boost things by saying that if his country manages to beat arch-rivals India in the upcoming T20 World Cup in…
IN times of the Covid-19 pandemic, cricketers across the globe are being forced to undergo tough protocol measures for safety. But the strict rules have at times left an adverse impact on their mental well-being. Keeping the challenge in view, the International Cricket Council (ICC) on Thursday (7) said that…
THE just concluded three-day India visit of US deputy secretary of state Wendy Sherman was an opportunity for the US to deepen its strategic partnership with the Asian nation, an American official has said. “Overall, this was an opportunity for the United States to deepen our strategic partnership with India,…
THE city of Clarksdale in the US located in the heart of the Mississippi Delta region, whose economy has recently been facilitated largely by a company set up by an Indian-American, will install a bronze bust of Mahatma Gandhi, whose 152nd birth anniversary was recently observed across the globe. The…
ASHISH Mishra, the son of India’s minister of state for home affairs Ajay Mishra Teni, who has been accused of mowing down protesting farmers in Lahimpur Kheri district of the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh on October 3, killing four, failed to turn up before the local police on…
THE Indian Air Force (IAF) on Friday (8) observed its 89th anniversary by holding ceremonies and giving awards to three units. The celebrations were held at the Hindon Air Force Station in Ghaziabad in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh where the chief of air staff and other top…
IN an incident that recalled tension in the relation between India and China, troops from both nations engaged in a face-off along the Line of Actual Control in the Arunachal Pradesh sector in north-eastern India where patrols of the two giant neighbours came face to face at one point. Sources…
INDIA'S external affairs minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar on Thursday (7) stressed the country’s ties with the ASEAN (Association of South East Asian Nations) region saying it is one of the major hubs for India’s global economic engagement and the coronavirus pandemic has necessitated a new urgency to re-imagine the cooperation and…
BRINGING to end a diplomatic row with India over the decision to make vaccinated Indians serve a mandatory quarantine period on arrival to the UK, the British high commissioner to India on Thursday (7) said that Indians who have been fully vaccinated with Covishield or any other jab approved by…
