- Monday, February 24, 2025
A WOMAN medical student, who was India’s first Covid-19 patient, has tested positive again after a year-and-half though there have been no reports of her having symptoms. The woman from Thrissur in the southern Indian state of Kerala, who was studying in Wuhan in China, was infected with the Sars-CoV-2…
THE Narendra Modi government on Wednesday (14) said in a statement that India and China have agreed that resolving the border row should be prioritised as “a prolongation of the existing situation is not in the interest of either side”. The statement came in the wake of a meeting between…
THE Narendra Modi government on Wednesday (14) asked all states and Union Territories (UTs) to direct all police stations under their jurisdiction not to register cases under the repealed section of the Information Technology Act. The direction came from the ministry of home affairs little over a week after the…
THE Narendra Modi cabinet on Wednesday (14) approved a scheme to provide Rs 1,624 crore ($217.5 million) over five years as subsidy to Indian shipping companies in global tenders floated by ministries and central public sector enterprises (CPSEs) for import of government cargo, an official statement announced. As per the…
WITH fuel prices heading north, protests against the Narendra Modi government have become widespread in India. The protesters often resort to unique ways, ranging from burning effigies to pulling cars with ropes to cycling. But one of the most used tricks of protest has been riding bullock carts to criticise…
INDIA'S monthly services exports have largely rebounded after an initial Covid-19 shock, a new Commonwealth trade analysis released in London on Tuesday (13) has found. According to the 2021 ‘Commonwealth Trade Review’, the Commonwealth countries are estimated to have lost trade worth up to $345 billion in 2020, including $60…
INDIA’S food delivery unicorn Zomato on Wednesday (14) launched its $1.2 billion initial public offering (IPO) for subscription. The start-up company, backed by Jack Ma’s Ant Group, raised $562.3 million from institutional investors, as they bid for 35 times more shares than allotted to them. It is the first of…
AMID the Uttar Pradesh government’s thrust on population control, parliamentarians of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Ravi Kishan and Rakesh Sinha will introduce private member’s bills on the same during the monsoon session of the parliament starting July 19. While Kishan, who is also a renowned actor in India’s…
UK INTERNATIONAL trade secretary Liz Truss has lauded exports of apples from England to India, for the first time in half a century, as a sign of the UK-India Enhanced Trade Partnership in action. Truss said on Twitter over the weekend that the exports of the fruits from a farm…
INDIAN external affairs minister S Jaishankar on Wednesday (14) said at a high-profile meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, that combating terrorism and extremism is the grouping’s key purpose and it must put an end to terror financing. Jaishankar’s counterparts from Pakistan, China and Russia were…
