- Sunday, February 23, 2025
WHILE other international social media outlets like Twitter and WhatsApp have locked horns with the Indian government over the country’s new information technology rules, Facebook India has decided to take the opposite path and backed the Centre. Facebook India managing director Ajit Mohan has told Indian daily The Times of…
DAYS after the leadership of the Indian National Congress publicly announced that it has asked the chief minister of the North Indian state of Punjab, Captain Amarinder Singh, to focus on implementing the party’s 18 key poll manifesto within a timeframe, revolting party leader from the state Navjot Singh Sindhu…
A NEWLY married man stole headlines on social media recently after a video showing him lifting his bride on his shoulder to carry her across a monsoon river in spate saw quick circulation. The incident happened in Kishanganj district of the North Indian state of Bihar. The entire locality has…
SHE was struggling to attend the online classes in times of the pandemic because of lack of technological support. But Tulsi Kumari met a businessman who, sitting thousands of miles away, solved her problem in the most unthinkable way possible. The benevolent man paid Rs 120,000 ($1,614) to the poor…
THE government of Brazil, which had agreed to buy 20 million doses of Covaxin, a vaccine for Covid-19 made by India’s Bharat Biotech, on Wednesday (30) announced suspension of the contract following allegations of irregularities in the deal. In a tweet posted the same day, Brazilian health minister Marcelo Queiroga…
THE Indian government has extended the ban on international commercial flights till July 31 because of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) announced in a circular on Wednesday (30). The ban on scheduled commercial overseas flights were supposed to end on June 30, after a gap…
THE Supreme Court of India on Wednesday (30) asked the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) to set up guidelines for payment of ex gratia compensation to the kin of those who succumbed to Covid-19, agencies reported. In its judgement, a bench headed by Justice Ashok Bhushan also asked the NDMA…
SMART Power India (SPI), a subsidiary of The Rockefeller Foundation, the United States, has released results of their survey called “SPI’s Survey of Mini-grid Villages May 2021” and it has been seen that the overall economic functioning in such villages was less affected by the coronavirus pandemic in 2021. The…
PERSONAL loans have continued to grow at a robust rate and recorded a 13.5 per cent year-on-year rise in March 2021, the Reserve Bank of India said on Tuesday (29). It, however, added that industrial loan growth remained negative during all quarters of the last fiscal. As per the Quarterly…
THE next Assembly elections in Gujarat are still sometime away but the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), which is aiming to emerge the main alternative to the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), seems to be strengthening its support base fast. Prominent diamond trader and social worker Mahesh Savani from Surat in…
