- Tuesday, February 25, 2025
RELIANCE Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani has retained the top position on the Forbes India Rich List 2021 with a net worth of 92.7 billion (£68.1 billion). This is the 14th consecutive year that the 64-year-old tycoon has topped the list of 100 richest Indians. Last year, his net worth stood…
MUKESH Ambani, Asia’s richest man, is set to open India’s first 7-Eleven convenience store as his Reliance conglomerate boosts its retail presence in a market of 1.3 billion people. The first store will be opened in Mumbai, India’s financial capital on Saturday (9). The announcement of the franchise agreement comes…
INDIAN prime minister Narendra Modi on Thursday (7) praised the country’s capacity to battle the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic and recalled its journey from being an importer to an exporter in masks and kits. Modi, who visited the Himalayan state of Uttarakhand on the day, said while addressing an event at…
THE United Nations Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organisation (UNESCO) has cautioned that school closures and the children’s lack of smartphones and internet facilities in India amid the Covid-19 pandemic have worsened the country’s educational divide. The cultural agency has said in a report which was issued on Tuesday (5) that…
TARGETED killings in India’s Kashmir Valley continued unabated as on Thursday (7), a non-Hindu principal and a teacher of a government school were gunned down by terrorists in Eidgah, Srinagar, the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir. The attack came less than two days after three persons were shot dead…
INDIAN men’s cricket team’s strength and conditioning coach Nick Webb has decided to step down from his position after the T20 World Cup starting this month as he is no longer keen on being on the road for most part of a year. The New Zealander joined the Indian team…
INDIAN prime minister Narendra Modi on Thursday (7) completed two decades as an elected representative and top leaders of his ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) congratulated him on the occasion. Modi first became the chief minister of his home state of Gujarat on October 7, 2001, replacing the late Keshubhai…
THE Supreme Court of India on Thursday (7) asked the government of the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh about the accused in the October 3 violence in the state’s Lakhimpur Kheri district and whether they have been arrested. Eight people were killed in the violence that resulted after a…
ROYAL Challengers Bangalore’s (RCB) plans to end up in the top two teams in the points table in the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2021 received a blow on Wednesday (6) when they narrowly lost to Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH), placed at the bottom of the table, by four runs. The loss…
JUSTICE SECRETARY Dominic Raab has promised to fight “nonsensical” human rights laws that allow foreign criminals in the UK escape deportation. Members of the public want offenders sent back to their native countries, Raab told the Conservative Party conference in Manchester on Tuesday (5). “Too often they see dangerous criminals…
