- Monday, February 24, 2025
A MAN in the eastern Indian state of Bihar has taken up a unique initiative to admit students to his institute that trains students for competitive examinations. Instead of charging money, he asks 18 saplings as the admission fee. The initiative has seen around 500 poor students bag government jobs…
THE Indian Army on Monday (26) paid rich tributes to soldiers who were martyred in the 1999 Kargil War against Pakistan at the Drass war memorial in Jammu and Kashmir. In the summer of 1999, the Indian armed forces negated attempts made by the neighbouring country to capture strategic heights…
BS YEDITURAPPA on Monday (26) stepped down as the chief minister of the southern Indian state of Karnataka, ending weeks of speculation given birth by endless calls for his removal by a section of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the state. The 78-year-old leader was serving his fourth…
PAKISTAN'S opposition leader Shehbaz Sharif on Saturday (24) rejected prime minister Imran Khan's remarks that Islamabad would let the people of Kashmir decide if they want to join Pakistan or become an "independent state". He said Khan was deviating from the country's "historical and constitutional position" by proposing a second…
THE UK-India dialogue on the roadmap towards accelerated talks between the two countries on a free trade agreement (FTA), with an interim agreement factored in, is “going well” and will see “good progress” in the coming months, Indian foreign secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla on Saturday (24) said. Shringla, who was…
INDIAN foreign secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla on Saturday (24) said that he has asked the United Kingdom to review its travel ban on visitors from India. In April, Britain added India to its travel ‘red list’ amid concerns over the Delta variant of the coronavirus. Under this list, visitors are…
INDIAN finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday (24) said the country’s honest taxpayers deserved to be recognised for dutifully paying their due share of taxes. She also praised the income tax department for successfully implementing various reforms. In her message to the department on the 161st anniversary of the Income…
WITH global sales of electric vehicles (EVs) expected to see a boom in the next one year, nearly 90 per cent of consumers in India are ready to pay a premium for buying an EV, a survey by consultancy firm EY has said. The survey, EY Mobility Consumer Index (MCI),…
SIX-TIME world champion and Olympic medallist Mary Kom made an impressive start at the Tokyo Olympics by winning her 51-kilograms boxing bout against Dominican Republic’s Miguelina Hernandez Garcia in the opening round on Sunday (25). The 38-year-old pugilist from Manipur, who won a bronze at the London edition nine years…
THE Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is working on a strategy to introduce a central bank digital currency (CBDC) in a phased manner, deputy governor T. Rabi Sankar said on Thursday (22). The central bank is examining key issues around this such as should CBDC be only used in retail…
