- Monday, February 24, 2025
INDIAN exports saw a good beginning in August by garnering $7.4 billion in the first seven days of the month. Tentative data released by India’s commerce ministry showed that while exports grew 50.5 per cent in the same period, imports shot up 70 per cent to $10.5 billion, leading to…
HINDUJA Global Solutions (HGS) has announced the sale of its healthcare services business to Baring Private Equity Asia for an enterprise value of Rs 8,906 crore ($1.2 billion). The transaction subject to closing adjustments is likely to complete within 90 days, subject to approvals – shareholder and other regulatory ones.…
TANZANIAN billionaire businessman Mohammed Dewji on Wednesday (11) praised the country’s government over the reduction of HIV/AIDS-related deaths by 50 per cent in the past decade. In a tweet, Dewji, one of the most celebrated members of the Indian diaspora in Africa whose ancestors had gone to East Africa in…
INDIA ranked 122nd on a new Global Youth Development Index that measures the condition of young people across 181 countries. "The top five risers from 2010 to 2018 were Afghanistan, India, Russia, Ethiopia and Burkina Faso,” says the ‘2020 Global Youth Development Index' released by the Commonwealth Secretariat in London…
ENGLAND Test captain Joe Root, who hit a fifty and hundred in the drawn first Test against India at Trent Bridge recently, has now overtaken his Indian counterpart Virat Kohli in the latest International Cricket Council (ICC) Test rankings for batsmen. Indian pace spearhead Jasprit Bumrah, on the other hand,…
PAKISTAN authorities have completed the restoration of the Hindu temple badly damaged by a mob last week in Punjab province and arrested around 90 people allegedly involved in the attack. Hundreds of people, carrying sticks, stones and bricks attacked the temple at Bhong city of Rahim Yar Khan district, some…
TOP Pakistani cricketers have appealed to their cricket board to consider a hike in match fees, a website reported. Skipper Babar Azam, Muhammad Rizwan, all-rounder Hasan Ali and fast bowler Shaheen Shah Afridi, who were recently awarded 'A' grade contracts by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) have told a senior…
ENGLAND could recall Moeen Ali in one of several changes for the second Test against India at Lord's starting on Thursday (12) after escaping with a draw in the series opener. The tourists had the better of a rain-affected first Test at Trent Bridge, with a hundred from home captain…
WITH the US-led western troops fast exiting Afghanistan, the Taliban are resurging and the world is fearing that the country will see dark days once it returns to its pre-October 2001 days when the extremist group ruled supreme. The rise of the Taliban doesn’t only give rise to fears over…
GOA, a tiny Indian coastal state to its west, was once administered by the Portuguese and in 1961, Indian troops marched into its territory and incorporated it into the rest of the country. Sixty years later, it seems Goa’s Portuguese legacy is waning first as the new generation is feeling…
