- Monday, February 24, 2025
WHILE the domestic market is expected to return to normalcy with the second Covid-19 wave receding and the festival season approaching, uncertainty caused by the pandemic still persists, Sanjay Lalbhai, chairman and managing director of textiles and garments major Arvind Ltd has said. In an address to shareholders in the…
MINING giant Vedanta Group spent Rs 3.31 billion ($44.4 million) on social initiatives in the fiscal year 2020-21, the company said in a statement on Wednesday (21). In the previous year, the company had spent Rs 2.96 billion ($40 million) on its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiatives, which includes projects…
INDIAN male hockey team captain Manpreet Singh and Olympic medal-winning boxer Mary Kom led the Indian contingent at the opening ceremony of a pandemic-plagued Summer Olympics in Tokyo on Friday (23). The Indian squad at the ceremony saw a limited participation because of the pandemic. The Olympics, which are being…
THE Narendra Modi government on Friday (23) said inter-ministerial talks were underway to finalise the national e-commerce policy soon, a move which is being mulled to promote growth of the sector. Som Prakash, the Union minister of state for commerce and industry, said in a written reply to the Rajya…
ACE India's archer Deepika Kumari will pair with Pravin Jadhav in the discipline’s mixed-par event at the Tokyo Olympic Games which kicked off on Friday (23). Jadhav, a debutant, was preferred by the Indian think-tank ahead of Deepika’s husband Atanu Das, who is also more experienced, based on the form…
THIRTY-SIX people have lost their lives in landslides in the western Indian state of Maharashtra caused by heavy rains, official sources said Friday (23). Dozens were also feared to be trapped. A local administrative official in Raigad district of Maharashtra told AFP that three landslides hit the region as uninterrupted…
INSTANCES of the politics overshadowing sporting events is not rare and the Tokyo Olympics have been no exception. Algerian judoka Fethi Nourine has withdrawn from the games that kicked off on Friday (23) before the competition started after the draw set him up for a possible encounter with an Israeli…
THE first Olympics of the 2000s were held in Sydney, Australia, and the United States bagged the top position in this edition with 93 medals, including 37 golds, 24 silvers and 32 bronzes. Russia finished a close second with 89 medals that included 32 golds, 28 silvers and 29 bronzes.…
INDIA'S two-time Olympic medallist Sushil Kumar will follow actions at the Tokyo Games starting Friday (23) but he will do so from the confinements of a jail where he is spending his days on charges of kidnap and murder. The 38-year-old’s lawyer had requested the authorities at Tihar Jail, New…
SHARES of Indian food delivery unicorn, Zomato zoomed around 80 per cent in its debut trade on Friday (23), against its issue price of Rs 76 ($1.02). The stock made its debut at Rs 115 ($1.55) on the BSE. It then hit a high of Rs 138 (£1.85). At the…
