- Monday, February 24, 2025
TO reduce global oil prices and ease the pressure on economies, oil-producing countries have agreed to increase their production. The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and partners such as Russia will augment oil supply by two million barrels per day (bpd) from August following a steep rise in…
THE Supreme Court of India on Monday (19) rapped the state government of the western state of Gujarat for bringing a notification that reversed a court order on fire safety norms in hospitals that treat Covid patients, despite the deaths of a number of patients in several fire incidents. Judges…
DOHA has taken a lead over Dubai in a battle to become the pre-eminent travel hub in the middle east, travel analytics firm ForwardKeys has found in latest research. Crunching the world’s freshest and most comprehensive flight-booking data, ForwardKeys has said that the Qatar city has gone ahead of its…
THE Indian opposition on Monday (19) attacked the Narendra Modi government over the nationality of newly inducted Union minister of state for home Nisith Pramanik, alleging he was a Bangladeshi national. The government dismissed the charge as “baseless” and hit back at the opponents accusing it of casting aspersions on…
THE Tokyo Olympics is just days away and like in every edition of the quadrennial event, athletes from across the planet aim to deliver their best performance to make their countries and themselves proud. The modern Olympics have been held for more than 120 years now and there are scores…
CRICKETER-turned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu looked a confident man on Monday (19), a day after the high command of the Indian National Congress appointed him as the new president of the party’s chapter in the northern Indian state of Punjab. “My journey has just begun,” he said. The development also comes…
PULITZER Prize-winning photojournalist Danish Siddiqui was buried in New Delhi on Sunday (18), two days after he was killed covering fighting between Afghan security forces and the Taliban near a border crossing with Pakistan. Siddiqui, an Indian national with the Reuters news agency, was embedded with Afghan special forces in…
SPYWARE Pegasus, which is sold by the NSO Group of Israel, may have been used to conduct surveillance on about 300 Indians, including 40 journalists, three opposition leaders, two cabinet ministers along with several prominent officials and businessmen, reports claim. As per Paris-based outlet Forbidden Stories and Amnesty International, they…
POPULAR Indian Premier League (IPL) franchise Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) have come together with other sporting entities like Ultimate Table Tennis (UTT), a professional table-tennis league in India, FC Goa, which competes in the Indian Super League football competition, and others to form a Fan Army to cheer India’s Olympic…
INDIAN finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday (19) said the country’s strong fundamentals and market size will continue to attract market-seeking greenfield investments. In a written reply to the Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Indian parliament, Sitharaman cited the World Investment Report 2021 to say that foreign direct…
