THE maiden bilateral meeting between Indian prime minister Narendra Modi and US president Joe Biden on Friday (24) will allow taking the relationship between the two nations from strength to strength while helping in reinforcing and giving momentum to the Quad grouping, an official source in the White House said.…
KOLKATA Knight Riders (KKR), who could manage only two wins in their first seven outings in this year’s split Indian Premier League (IPL), started off well in the second phase of the tournament that resumed in the UAE on Sunday (19). Taking on Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) led by India…
PAKISTAN cricket suffered another jolt just days after New Zealand called off their limited-over series on their soil as England too have cancelled the dual tours of their men’s and women’s cricket teams of Pakistan. The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) deliberated on the matter over the weekend and…
INDIAN prime minister Narendra Modi is set to visit the US on Tuesday (21) in what marks his seventh trip to that country. This is his first foreign visit since he went to Bangladesh in March this year, his only trip abroad in the times of the pandemic. The leader…
INDIA, which suspended export and donations of excess vaccines in April to meet the domestic demand after a devastating second wave of the coronavirus pandemic wreaked havoc, is set to resume the same in October, the country’s health minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Monday (20) said. His announcement came on the…
FOREIGN direct investment (FDI) is critically important if India aims to become a $5 trillion economy, Deloitte chief executive officer Punit Renjen said while noting that more two-fifths of the 1,200 business leaders surveyed in the US, the UK, Japan and Singapore are planning to make additional or first-time investments…
BAPS Swaminarayan Sanstha (BAPS) is set to present a free three-part mini-course on parenting titled ‘Parenting from the Bhagavad Gita: What Can Krishna and Arjuna Teach Us About the Parent-Child Relationship?’ starting on Tuesday (21). Each session at the programme will be of half-an-hour duration and be premiered fortnightly on…
MASS migration caused by the phenomenon of climate change may lead to a rise in racial tensions and clashes between communities in the UK, the law-keepers have been cautioned. Millions of people are expected to be displaced from developing countries because of serious impacts of climate change and experts predict…
SENIOR Indian National Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Monday (20) said he was pulling out of an event in the UK after the country announced that even fully vaccinated Indians will have to undergo a quarantine period on arrival there. In a tweet, the 65-year-old parliamentarian from Thiruvananthapuram in the…
ALL Indian students at a medical university in the city of Perm in Russia (800 miles east of national capital Moscow) were unhurt, the country’s embassy in Russia said on Monday (20) after a gunman opened fire and killed at least eight people and left several injured. The embassy took…