- Monday, February 24, 2025
INDIA has gone ahead of the United States to become the world’s second-most sought-after manufacturing destination, according to real-estate consultant Cushman & Wakefield and the improvement has been mainly driven by cost competitiveness. China has remained at the top. The rankings were revealed by the consultant in its 2021 Global…
THE Paralympic Games kicked off on Tuesday (24) in the same National Stadium in Japan, Tokyo, where the opening and closing ceremonies of the recent Tokyo Olympics were held. Like the previous event, the opening ceremony of the Paralympics, in which athletes with physical disabilities compete, also took place in…
NALINI Joseph is aspiring to become the first Indian-American to become a member of the city council of Salisbury, a small coastal town and summer tourist destination in Massachusetts. Elections for the post are due in November. The 53-year-old India-born businesswoman, came to the US after high school and attended…
FORMER Indian National Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday (24) blasted the Narendra Modi government over its National Monetisation Pipeline (NMP) plan, accusing it of selling all assets in the last 70 years to the prime minister’s “industrial friends”. “The Narendra Modi-led government is in the process of selling India’s…
WILLIAM J Burns, the director of the United States’ external intelligence body Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) held a secret meeting with the Taliban’s de facto leader Abdul Ghani Baradar in Kabul on Monday (23) in the highest-level face-to-face meeting between the two sides since the extremist group took over the…
HEALTHCARE leaders and politicians in Leeds believe a new anti-racism pledge is an acknowledgement that we still live in a “structurally racist” society, and that more needs to be done to remove barriers preventing black and minority ethnic (BAME) people from reaching positions of power. The 'Root Out Racism' pledge,…
PAKISTAN threw down the gauntlet to the West Indies on the penultimate day of their two-match Test series on Monday (23), setting the hosts 329 to win as the visitors chase a series-levelling victory at Sabina Park in Kingston. The West Indies will start the final day at 49 for…
INDIAN prime minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday (24) spoke with Russian president Vladimir Putin over the phone to discuss the evolving situation in Afghanistan in the aftermath of the Taliban’s return to power. News agency ANI tweeted about the meeting between the two leaders. Modi also shared on Twitter snippets…
WHILE speculation is rife that India could see the implementation of the Covid-19 booster dose, experts have said that not enough data is there to decide on the need for the same even as apprehensions rise over the possibility of a third wave of the pandemic hitting the country between…
NEW Delhi, the capital of India which fights a deadly air pollution that results in deaths of thousands of people every year, has come up with its first “smog tower” that aims to reduce the pollution level but experts were not convinced. According to engineers, 40 giant fans in the…
