- Tuesday, February 25, 2025
INDIAN national security advisor (NSA) Ajit Doval on Tuesday (7) met William Burns, the chief of the US’s intelligence body Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). According to Indian news channel NDTV, the meeting took place on a day when the Taliban revealed names of people who would run their government in…
AT a time when the coronavirus pandemic has wreaked havoc in the southern Indian state of Kerala, its authorities have met yet another serious health challenge. The outbreak of the Nipah virus, which is not related to Covid, has started posing a major threat and the state authorities are racing…
AFTER a prolonged confusion, the picture over the face of the Taliban rule in Afghanistan got clear on Tuesday (7). Mullah Mohammad Hassan Akhund was set to lead the new Taliban government in the war-torn country while the outfit’s co-founder Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar will be one of his two…
THE Indian commerce ministry on Tuesday (7) notified tariff rate quota (TRQ) for certain items including pineapples, tunas, beer made from malt, rum and procedure for importing those goods under the free trade agreement between India and Mauritius formally called the India-Mauritius Comprehensive Economic Cooperation and Partnership Agreement (CECPA). The…
An Air India flight headed to London, the UK, from New Delhi on Monday (6) had to cancel take-off after a swarm of ants was found in the business-class section, Asian News International reported. The flight, AI-111, had among its passengers Jigme Namgyel Wangchuk, the son and heir apparent of…
THE UK’s tech-visa scheme for technology workers continues to be popular among Indians. The scheme through which Britain intends to attract global talents, allows foreign talents to work in the country without being hired by any employer. Most of the applications in the first eight months of 2021 came from…
INDIAN drug developer Hetero on Monday (6) said it has received an emergency-use approval from the health authorities to make a generic version of Roche Holding AG’s Covid-19 drug. The company, based in Hyderabad in the southern Indian state of Telangana, expects to make the treatment – tocilizumab -- under…
ACE Serbian tennis player Novak Djokovic started with a bumpy ride against a low-ranked opponent in his round of 16 match at the US Open on Monday (6) but eventually prevailed over to make the quarter-finals. The world No.1 beat the US’s Jenson Brooksby, ranked 99, 1-6, 6-3, 6-2, 6-2…
AFGHANISTAN'S territory should not be used for spreading terrorism in other countries of the region and countries like Russia and India have “common concern” over it in the backdrop of the current situation in the war-torn nation, Russian Ambassador to India Nikolay Kudashev on Monday (6) said. The Russian envoy…
CAIRN Energy PLC on Tuesday (7) said it was set to drop litigation to seize Indian properties in various countries, including France and the US, just days after getting a £725 billion refund that resulted from the scrapping of a retrospective tax law. The company, which gave India its largest…
