- Sunday, February 23, 2025
PRIME minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday (29) chaired a high-level meeting with defence minister Rajnath Singh, home minister Amit Shah and national security adviser Ajit Doval on “futuristic challenges” in the defence sector, just days after the drone attack in the Indian Air Force’s station in Jammu airport. The top…
INDIAN petroleum minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Tuesday (29) put the state-owned ONGC (Oil and Natural Gas Corporation) and OIL (Oil India Limited) on notice saying oil and gas reserves they hold need to be monetised through joint ventures or the government will auction them away. Speaking at the BloombergNEF Summit…
SOUTH Africa’s Constitutional Court, the country’s topmost judicial body, on Tuesday (29) handed over the country’s former president Jacob Zuma a 15-month jail term for contempt of court after he refused to abide by its order to appear before investigators into corruption when he was in power. Zuma, 79, has…
NINE of the 11 finalists for this year’s US Spelling Bee contest are Indian-Americans, reflecting the kind of dominance that young children from the small ethnic community have had on the prestigious and demanding endurance test for more than a decade now. The 11 finalists are Roy Seligman, 12, from…
THE South Indian state of Kerala has launched a crackdown on the payment of dowry in the wake of deaths of four young married woman that highlighted domestic abuse connected to the custom which has remained in practice despite being banned 60 years ago. State chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan said…
SOON after finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman came up with a slew of measures aiming to see an economic revival on Monday (28), the opposition Congress chipped in to criticise the Narendra Modi government. It claimed the measures that Sitharaman announced will deliver nothing but headlines and opined that the Centre…
THE National Investigation Agency was on Tuesday (29) given the charge of carrying out probe into the drone attack on the Indian Air Force station in Jammu early on Sunday (27). The ministry of home affairs took the decision to hand over the investigation into the first-of-its-kind terror strike that…
SOCIAL media giant Twitter has found itself at the receiving end over a fresh controversy that erupted over displaying a wrong map of India. The police have stepped in to file preliminary charges against senior Twitter officials over the inaccurate map, an official said on Tuesday (29). The incident has…
INDIAN finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday (28) came up with a slew of measures to revive the pandemic-hit economy. As part of the stimulus package worth $85 billion, she said India will extend federal guarantees on bank loans to small businesses and the health and tourism sectors to weather…
INDUSTRY players and exporters on Monday (28) welcomed the slew of measures that the Indian finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman came up with as part of an economic revival package of Rs 6.29 lakh crore ($85 billion) saying it will encourage growth and address the severe cash crunch flow that businesses…
