- Tuesday, February 25, 2025
THE exit of American auto major Ford from India last week is believed to be a major blow to both the manufacturer and the automobile market in India, something that experts thought was set to become the next China following the liberalisation of 1991. When Ford Motor Co. set up…
AS the controversy continued to snowball over the New Zealand national cricket team abruptly calling off its limited-series tour of Pakistan over security concerns, Black Caps pacer Mitchell McClenaghan told senior Pakistan batsman Mohammed Hafeez that if someone is to be blamed for the tour not going forward, it is…
THE resignation of Punjab chief minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Saturday (18) was perhaps a logical culmination of a feud which was going on for a while. The crisis in the northern Indian state started when cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu was made the chief of the Indian National Congress in…
FORMER Indian central minister Ambika Soni on Sunday (19) refused to don the mantle of the chief minister of the northern state of Punjab a day after the incumbent chief minister, Captain Amarinder Singh quit, over internal trouble. She said a Sikh should handle the top job. Speaking to reporters…
FORMER India cricketer and national selector Sandeep Patil has a critical take on the succession of national captaincy in the T20 format as he feels there has been a communication gap between departing skipper Virat Kohli and the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) over his decision to…
THE ruling Indian National Congress in the northern Indian state of Punjab received a serious jolt just months before the 2022 assembly elections on Saturday (18) when its chief minister Captain Amarinder Singh resigned from the top post. The 79-year-old leader, who had been serving his second stint as the…
INDIAN finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday (17) said that the Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council spoke on the topic of inclusion of petrol and diesel under the tax structure after the recent order of the Kerala High Court. “On the direction of court it was brought on to…
THE Char Dham Yatra, a popular Hindu pilgrimage, will kick off on Saturday (18), Pushkar Singh Dhami, the chief minister of the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand has announced. The state government has started preparing for the yatra after the high court of Uttarakhand decided to lift the ban on…
THE World Health Organisation (WHO) has said in an alarming report that women in India can expect to live on an average a healthy life spanning just over six decades unhampered by disabling illness or injuries and it is the lowest among 11 countries in the world’s body’s South East…
IN what appeared to be a reciprocal treatment for citizens of Canada and the United Kingdom, India's Narendra Modi government has withdrawn the e-visa facility for them, sources said. A senior official in the country’s ministry of home affairs said the two western countries posed a lot of restrictions over…
