- Monday, February 24, 2025
VETERAN Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Basavaraj Bommai was on Wednesday (28) set to take oath as the next and 23rd chief minister of the South Indian state of Karnataka, succeeding BS Yediyurappa, who stepped down on Monday (26), which marked the exact second anniversary of the saffron government in the…
THE Narendra Modi government has confirmed a French court order for freezing certain state-owned assets in Paris following a petition filed by Britain's Cairn Energy to recover an arbitration award of $1.72 billion from New Delhi. The sum was awarded to Cairn Energy last year by an international tribunal over…
HE is not a player but still he is an integral part of the United States’ Olympic contingent and this year, he has been picked to assist the athletes for the fourth straight Games. Meet Harris Patel, a member of the US Track and Field medical staff at the Tokyo…
GLOBAL shortage of semiconductor continues to hurt the production of Jaguar Land Rover (JLR), while car sales recover after the pandemic. JLR, which brings in most of the revenue for the parent group Tata Motors, saw an on-year rise of 68 per cent in car sales, BBC reported. However, the…
CZECH automaker Skoda is planning to expand its presence across 100 cities in India by next month as it aims to cater to more customers with the launch of its mid-sized SUV 'Kushaq' less than a month ago. According to the automaker, the expansion of the sales network is an…
THE Pegasus snooping controversy was set to overshadow the visit of United States secretary of state Antony Blinken to India as the International Press Institute (IPI) on Tuesday (27) urged him to raise the issue of press freedom during his bilateral meetings with the Indian leadership. The body said the…
INDIA has brought in heavyweights from its aviation industry to come up with ideas to revive the ailing airline industry, one which has been hit hard in the Covid pandemic. A new committee has been formed which includes IndiGo’s Rahul Bhatia, SpiceJet’s Jay Singh, GoAir’s Ness Wadia, Vistara’s Bhaskar Bhatt…
INDIAN athletes have found things tough at the Olympics after Mirabai Chanu won a silver in weightlifting on Saturday (24). The Asian side had a disappointing day in field on Monday (26) and Tuesday (27) was not too better either with the exception of the men's hockey team trouncing Spain…
INDIA’S gross domestic product (GDP) growth is expected to be 8.8 to 9 per cent in the financial year ending March 2022, backed by agriculture and industry sectors, Care Ratings said in a report. In the fiscal year 2020-21, the country’s economy had contracted by 7.3 per cent. In view…
BRITISH Asian Sunjeev Sahota is among 13 authors longlisted for this year's Booker Prize for fiction for China Room, a novel judges described as a “brilliant twist” on the immigrant experience. Sahota, 40, has previously been shortlisted for the 2015 Booker Prize for his book, The Year of the Runaways…
