- Monday, February 24, 2025
INDIA'S economic sector was in for a relief as factory activities bounced back in July, thanks to a surge in demand both at home and abroad, prompting companies to generate employment for the first time since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, a private sector survey on Monday (2) showed.…
LEADING auto-makers in India like Maruti Suzuki India, Hyundai and Tata Motors on Sunday (1) reported high double-digit growth in their domestic passenger vehicle sales in July. Other manufacturers like Honda, Nissan, MG Motor and Skoda also reported a healthy growth in their sales the same month. It has been…
THE chief justice of the Supreme Court of India has decided against hearing a dispute between two southern Indian states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana over the sharing of waters of River Krishna owing to the fact that he “belongs to both states”. He urged the two neighbours to go…
BRITAIN is set to offer Covid vaccine booster dose to more than 32 million Britons from early next month, as per a report on Sunday (1). The Covid booster dose campaign is expected to start as soon as Sept 6 to ensure that the rollout is completed by early December,…
FORMER Canadian minister Chris Alexander has accused Pakistan of being complicit in “proxy war and war crimes” and engaging in an "act of aggression" against neighbouring Afghanistan. Alexander, who served as Canada's minister of citizenship and immigration from 2013 to 2015, said in a tweet on Sunday (1), "Taliban fighters…
A FEW days ago, Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty’s husband Raj Kundra was arrested in India in a case related to the alleged creation and distribution of pornographic films. The actress had not given any statement about it, but finally, she has opened up about the whole scenario. Shilpa posted her…
BILLIONAIRE Gautam Adani has launched a new subsidiary to foray into refineries, petrochemical complexes and hydrogen plants’ businesses. Adani Enterprises in stock exchange filing said it has incorporated Adani Petrochemicals Ltd (APL) as a wholly-owned subsidiary to "carry on business of setting up refineries, petrochemicals complexes, specialty chemicals units, hydrogen…
US VICE president Kamala Harris has been rated as the most unpopular American vice president since at least the 1970s, claimed a recent media report on Sunday (1). She has spent almost six months in her new role. Citing two recent polls where it emerged that most of the Americans…
INDIAN prime minister Narendra Modi had told ace shuttler PV Sindhu that he would like to have ice-cream with her once she returned successfully from the ongoing Tokyo Olympic Games. He told this to the 26-year-old ahead of the Indian athletes’ departure for the mega event in Japan which took…
THE victory of the Indian women’s team against favourites Australia in the quarter-finals of the Tokyo Olympics on Monday (2) has left the country in endless jubilation. The 1-0 win saw the women in blue making their first-ever semi-finals at the quadrennial tournament in their third appearance. The historic victory,…
