- Monday, February 24, 2025
SOCIAL media giant Facebook is joining hands with Indian online lending company Indifi to help give loans to small domestic businesses, its country head revealed on Friday (20) to encourage more businesses to advertise on its platform. The Facebook-Indifi partnership will provide loans ranging from Rs 5 lakh to 50…
INDIA should back South Africa in its efforts to rebuild the country after the recent violence that rocked the African nation, Ela Gandhi, the granddaughter of Mahatma Gandhi, feels. Gandhi, an 81-year-old peace activist who was born in South Africa, said in an online seminar which was organised on the…
KALYAN Singh, the former chief minister of the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, passed away at the age of 89 on Saturday (21) due to sepsis and multi-organ failure. He is survived by his wife Ramwati Devi and two sons. The veteran leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)…
INDIA'S drug regulator has granted emergency use approval for Zydus Cadila's Covid-19 vaccine, the world's first DNA shot against the coronavirus, in adults and children aged 12 years and above. The approval gives a boost to India's vaccination programme, which aims to inoculate all eligible adults by December, and will…
THE pull-out of the US-led western forces from Afghanistan has created opportunities for other players to make inroads into the country having rich mineral resources but the political instability could jeopardise the plans. China, for instance, could aim at developing resource projects in Afghanistan under Taliban rule, according to sources…
INDIAN prime minister Narendra Modi on Friday (20) said destructive forces and people who follow their ideology of creating empires through terror can dominate for some time but eventually they fade out because they cannot suppress humanity forever. He said this during a virtual speech he delivered while inaugurating a…
ALOK Sharma, the president of the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) concluded his three-day visit to India on Wednesday (19). He said he has requested India's Narendra Modi government to aim at reducing emissions and added a finance plan will be put in place for the…
LONDON Mayor Sadiq Khan has said London “stands ready to help Afghan refugees” as the UK prepares to offer sanctuary to 20,000 Afghans fleeing violence. Thousands of people have attempted to leave the country since the Taliban took control of the capital city, Kabul, on August 15. In chaotic scenes…
PAKISTAN-based terror outfits like Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) continue to operate with both impunity and encouragement, India, which is holding the presidency of the United Nations Security Council for the month of August, said on Thursday (19). India called on the council, a powerful body, not to take a…
WHILE security experts in India remained anxious over the repercussions of Taliban’s return to power in Afghanistan in the region, particularly in Jammu and Kashmir, the extremist group has said that it is a “bilateral and an internal matter”. News agency ANI said this on social media platform Twitter, quoting…
