- Sunday, February 23, 2025
WITH the vaccination goal still some distance away and speculation growing over a possible third wave hitting the country, a number of Indian firms also have chipped in to encourage people to take the jab. And one of the strategies they have taken is by offering discounts on various items,…
YASIR Othman Al-Rumayyan, chairman of Saudi Aramco and head of the Kingdom’s cash-rich wealth fund Public Investment Fund, is set to join the board of Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) as an independent director in a precursor to a $15 billion deal. Reliance chairman and Asia’s richest man Mukesh Ambani, who…
INDIA has significantly reduced its oil import from the Middle East as part of a strategy to diversify crude resources. According to reports, the world’s third-biggest oil producer saw the share of the Middle Eastern crude in its imports plummeting to a 25-month low in May, tanker data provided by…
MORE Covid-19 and flu vaccines will be delivered through community pharmacy, health secretary Matt Hancock said, as noted a “big shift” in the UK’s vaccination programme. Such a move would allow community pharmacists to use their “clinical capabilities” and doctors to practise “medicine in the normal way” back in the…
PRIME minister Narendra Modi on Friday (25) recalled the Emergency on the 46th anniversary of its imposition saying the “dark days of Emergency” can never be forgotten. The Emergency was declared on June 25, 1975, by then Indian prime minister Indira Gandhi and it continued till March 21, 1977. Modi…
FORMER Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Friday (25) questioned the Narendra Modi government asking why large-scale testing is not being carried out to check and prevent the spread of the Delta-plus variant of Covid-19. He also sought to know the effectiveness of vaccines against the new variant. The opposition leader,…
INDIA'S information technology minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Friday (25) accused microblogging site Twitter of denying him access to his account for almost an hour on grounds of alleged violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of the United States. His account was reportedly unlocked an hour later. He criticised…
THE enforcement directorate on Friday (25) raided the premises of former Maharashtra home minister Anil Deshmukh in Mumbai and Nagpur as part of a money-laundering probe against him, officials said. The directorate also questioned Deshmukh’s personal secretary Sanjeev Palande related to the case. Sources said Palande was brought to the…
One succumbed to his injuries after five passengers jumped off a train in Jhansi in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh on Thursday (24) after realising that they boarded the wrong train. The deceased, identified as Ajay Kumar, 33, was crushed under the wheels of the train while the…
CHILDREN struggling with mental health issues because of long lockdowns have to be near suicidal before any help reaches them, a leading GP has said. Dr Shaba Nabi, based in Bristol, said, “It would be easier for me to become a supermodel than to get a child seen by CAMHS…
