- Sunday, April 20, 2025
INDIAN prime minister Narendra Modi on Monday (19) said that the era of bureaucratic hurdles has been supplanted by a welcoming environment for investors during the seven-year tenure of the "double-engine" government in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh. When Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party is in power in a state,…
ENGLAND, who arrived for the ongoing five-Test series in India with a lot of preparations and expectations and went on to win the first game in Hyderabad, have now found themselves in a spot after losing the next two matches in a row. The Three Lions will have to win…
JAIVEER Shergill, the national spokesperson of India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has said that India's ties with Russia are based on friendship and that Moscow was, is and will remain a strong ally of New Delhi amid strong reactions from the West following the death of Alexei Navalny, a…
INDIAN-AMERICAN Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley has said that if she wins the election on November 5, her administration will not only strengthen the alliance with the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) but also with other nations, including India, Australia, Japan, South Korea and the Philippines. The former US ambassador…
HERE are news in brief on Indian economy and business for Friday, February 16, 2024: Indian chief economic adviser V Anantha Nageswaran on Friday cautioned that the shift from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources could amplify global risks instead of reducing them. Addressing an audience in Mumbai on February…
INDIAN external affairs minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar on Friday (16) held discussions about bilateral cooperation and significant global and regional matters with prominent leaders, including his counterparts from the US and the UK at a gathering in Germany. The diplomat met UK foreign secretary David Cameron and US secretary of state…
THE Kremlin's most prominent critic Alexei Navalny died on Friday (16) in an Arctic prison, Russian officials said, a month before an election poised to extend Vladimir Putin's hold on power. Navalny's death after three years in detention and a poisoning that he blamed on the Kremlin deprives Russia's opposition…
THE Supreme Court of India this week proposed setting up a "non-partisan" committee tasked with impartially assessing environmental issues and recommending additional conditions required for the potential reopening of Vedanta Sterlite's copper plant in Thoothukudi district of the southern state of Tamil Nadu. Making the observation, the apex court said…
OPENER Ben Duckett smashed a century to lead England's attacking reply of 207-2 on Friday after Indian spinner Ravichandran Ashwin reached 500 Test wickets in the third match of the series. The left-handed Duckett reached his third Test hundred in 88 balls as England reached 207-2 to cut their deficit…
IN a bizarre turn of events, a Delta Airlines flight heading to Detroit from Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, was forced to return nearly an hour after taking off after an infestation by maggots was discovered in an overhead luggage compartment. A passenger told Dutch news agency ANP that…
