- Tuesday, February 25, 2025
THE ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in New Delhi and the northern state of Uttar Pradesh found itself in a spot of embarrassment after its own parliamentarian Varun Gandhi condemned the incident in Lakhimpur Kheri on Sunday (3) that sparked a violence. Eight people died, including four protesting farmers. The…
INVESTORS' confidence in social media major Facebook slumped a bit on Monday (4) as its apps saw a rare lengthy outage, sending shares down by 4.8 per cent and making chief executive officer Mark Zuckerberg losing billions. Zuckerberg’s fortune plummeted by a whopping $5.9 billion (£4.3 billion) to $117 billon…
THE Shiv Sena has taken a strong dig at Indian prime minister Narendra Modi over his silence on the recent violence in Lakhimpur Kheri district of Uttar Pradesh which resulted in deaths of eight people, including four protesting farmers. It said while the prime minister gets emotional on several issues,…
AT a time when Lakhimpur Kheri in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh is tense over a violence that left eight people dead, including four farmers, prime minister Narendra Modi was set to visit to state capital Lucknow to take part in a three-day urban-conclave event, which will be…
BRITAIN, India and Pakistan have all said they will investigate a leak of financial documents published by news organisations that allegedly tie world leaders to concealed wealth. “Pandora Papers”, the dump of more than 11.9 million records, amounting to about 2.94 terabytes of data, came five years after the leak…
A PROMINENT community leader is being mourned after he passed away last month. Vinod H Patel was a dedicated devotee of the BAPS Swaminarayan Sanstha where he acted as a trustee of the organisation until his retirement. He passed away on September 26 aged 83. He had a key role…
WITH challenge to its security in the Jammu and Kashmir region mounting every day, thanks to the presence of two hostile neighbours in Pakistan and China, India has focused on an ambitious project to drill tunnels and construct bridges to connect the Kashmir Valley with Ladakh, a cold desert which…
EXECUTIVE chairperson of Indian biotechnology major Biocon Limited Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw on Monday (4) said the reporting on the Pandora Papers, a leak of offshore financial records that allegedly reveals how elites stash their wealth in tax havens, showed her husband’s offshore trust in a wrong light. The ‘Pandora Papers’ have…
ADANI Green Energy Ltd (AGEL) on Monday (4) said it has finished the acquisition of SB Energy India for $3.5 billion (£2.5 billion). “AGEL, the world’s largest solar power developer, successfully completed the acquisition of SB Energy Holdings Ltd (SB Energy India) in an all-cash deal for which definitive agreements…
GERMAN airliner Lufthansa’s chief executive officer Carsten Spohr on Sunday (3) said in Boston, the US, that restricting air traffic between India and Germany is hurting both the economies and the German carrier is eagerly looking forward to New Delhi allowing more flights between the two nations. Indian aviation regulator…
