- Monday, February 24, 2025
WHILE Indians were engulfed by a sense of despair during the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic, they are more confident ahead of a potential third wave, a new survey has said. LocalCircles, a community social-media platform, on Thursday (12) said 58 per cent of the country’s citizens covered under…
MUMBAI-BASED cryptocurrency exchange CoinDCX has raised $90 million (£64.9m) in a Series C funding round, increasing the firm’s valuation to $1.1 billion (£794m) and making it the first Indian unicorn in the segment. The fund raising was led by former Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin’s B Capital. CoinDCX plans to use…
WHEN state authorities and private companies in India have come up showering rewards on the country's Olympians who have won medals at the just concluded Games in Tokyo, Japan, one of India’s major automaker Tata Motors has taken a unique step. On Thursday (12), the automaker said it will gift…
THE UK’s economy rebounded 4.8 per cent in the second quarter as government eased Covid restrictions and most businesses emerged from lockdown. Data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) showed that the expansion in gross domestic product (GDP) was fuelled by retail, restaurants and hotels. It was also supported…
THE Rajiv Gandhi International Airport (RGIA) in Hyderabad, the capital of the South Indian state of Telangana, has been adjudged as the ‘Best regional airport in India and Central Asia’ under the Skytrax World Airport Awards for the third straight year. In a statement on Monday (9), GMR Hyderabad International…
FORMER captain Faf du Plessis was a notable omission from the South Africa squad named on Thursday (12) for a white-ball tour of Sri Lanka next month, the team's final outings before the Twenty20 World Cup. Du Plessis, 37, retired from Test cricket in February but said he remained available…
India opener KL Rahul slammed his sixth Test hundred on Thursday (12) to put his side in the driver's seat in the second Test against England at Lord's Cricket Ground. The right-handed batsman was not out on 127 off 248 balls at stumps on Day 1 as India ended on…
NEYTHRI, a global community of South Asian professional women which works towards building a pipeline for the women from the region to bag leadership roles, announced last week two fresh initiatives at a virtual event – Neythri Circles and Neythri Hub, a new digital platform on which members from across…
IN view of the Taliban’s growing power in Afghanistan amid the US-led forces’ pullout, the World Sikh Organisation (WSO) of Canada recently wrote to the country’s immigration minister Marco Mendicino urging him to intervene to save the lives of around 250 Afghan Sikhs and Hindus who remain in the violence-ravaged…
THE Sikh Religious Society in Palatine, Illinois, the United States, organised a five-kilometre run/walk event at Deer Grove East Forest Preserve on August 7 to boost communal harmony. More than 300 people registered for the ‘Oneness 5K Run/Walk 2021’ event and around 200 men and women took part physically. The…
