- Tuesday, February 25, 2025
THE Narendra Modi government has rushed a team of National Centre for Disease Control to the southern state of Kerala after the state government confirmed the death of a 12-year-old boy from Nipah virus at a hospital in Kozhikode in the state. The team was set to reach Kerala on…
ENGLAND and India shared the honours on the second day of the competitive fourth Test match at Kennington Oval, promising an absorbing dose of cricket over the weekend. The hosts came back well into the match after losing half their side cheaply but the tourists found themselves well balanced at…
Former Afghanistan prime minister Gulbuddin Hekmatyar has warned India against siding with the sympathisers of the toppled Afghanistan establishment. Speaking in an exclusive email interview to CNN-News18, the 71-year-old warlord-turned-politician nicknamed the ‘Butcher of Kabul’ said the Taliban would also do the same. “If their (Indian) apprehensions arise from the…
THE Export-Import Bank of India (India Exim Bank) has extended a credit line of Rs 730 crore (£72 million) on behalf of the Narendra Modi government to the Africa Finance Corporation (AFC) to improve infrastructure in the continent and boost economic revival of the region’s countries. AFC is a pan-African…
SOUTH AFRICAN African president Cyril Ramaphosa has called Babita Deokaran, the 53-year-old Indian-origin woman who was killed last month for allegedly providing critical information about a multi-million-dollar PPE (personal protective equipment) fraud during the coronavirus pandemic-induced lockdown last year, as a “hero and patriot”. Deokaran, who was a senior official…
INDIAN two-wheeler maker Hero MotoCorp on Friday (3) handed over 70 vehicles to the government of the northern Indian state of Haryana to help the country’s frontline health workers as part of its commitment to supporting coronavirus relief efforts. The units, comprising 50 units of Xtreme 160R motorcycles and 20…
INDIA'S Digital Infrastructure Providers Association (Dipa), formerly Taipa (Tower and Infrastructure Providers Association), on Friday (3) expressed disappointment over non-implementation of the recommendations of the country’s Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) since 2015 to better the scope of infrastructure providers. On August 31, the Train told the department of…
AT a time when England and India have locked horns over a Test series, cricket historians have been found unearthing past gems pertaining to the rivalry between the two teams that dates back to almost nine decades. The year 2021 marks a special milestone in the history of India’s rivalry…
THE ruling party of the eastern Indian state of Bihar was left to face an embarrassment after one of its lawmakers was found moving around on board a train bound for national capital New Delhi in undergarments. A massive controversy erupted after a video of the scantily-dressed state lawmaker went…
CREDITORS of NMC Health, a former FTSE 100 private healthcare group in the UAE, have approved a restructuring that will permit 34 group companies to leave the administration in Abu Dhabi and continue to run the core business. The company found itself embroiled in a “massive” fraud scandal. In a…
