- Tuesday, February 25, 2025
A JAPAN Airlines plane burst into flames on the runway of Tokyo's Haneda Airport on Tuesday (2) after apparently colliding with a coast guard aircraft, media reports said. Images on broadcaster NHK showed the plane moving along the runway before a large explosion of orange flames exploded from beneath and…
DECEMBER 30 marked a year of the horrific road crash involving ace India cricketer Rishabh Pant whose speeding luxury car rammed into a divider on a highway in northern India in the wee hours. Pant was going from Delhi to his home town of Roorkee in the northern state of…
Canada-based Satinderjit Singh alias Goldy Brar, the alleged mastermind of the murder of Punjabi singer Sidhu Moosewala, was on Sunday (31) designated a terrorist by the Indian government under the anti-terror law Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act. In a notification, the country's home ministry said Brar, backed by a Pakistan-based agency,…
DRIVERS of commercial vehicles, including lorries and tankers, stopped work in parts of the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh from Monday (1) and blocked roads at some places as part of a strike against a provision in the new penal law. Under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita passed recently by…
INDIAN-AMERICAN Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy has urged his rivals to follow him and withdraw from the ballots of the US states of Maine and Colorado which disqualified the party's frontrunner Donald Trump from contesting this year's race for the White House. Maine and Colorado disqualified the 77-year-old former president…
THE Indian embassy in Japan has issued emergency contact numbers for its citizens in the Far eastern archipelago after the country's central part was hit by a series of powerful earthquakes on Monday (1). The embassy also set up a control room for Indian citizens to contact for help. At…
BANGLADESH'S Nobel laureate economist Dr Muhammad Yunus was on Monday (1) sentenced to six months in jail by a court on charges of labour law violation, a development termed as "politically motivated" by his supporters. "The allegation of violating the Labour Law against him has been proved. It appears that…
INDIAN prime minister Narendra Modi on Monday (1) praised the western state of Gujarat after it made entered the Guinness Book of World Records for most people performing Surya Namaskar (sun salutation) simultaneously. Taking to X, he said that Gujarat welcomed 2024 with a remarkable feat. "Gujarat welcomed 2024 with…
EKNATH Shinde, chief minister of Maharashtra, has said that the western Indian state has become a preferred destination for investments from various countries, reflecting its conducive business environment. Shinde, who was speaking at a midnight blood-donation camp in a New Year's Eve programme in Maharashtra's Thane on Sunday (31), also…
HERE are news in brief related to Indian economy and business for Monday, January 1, 2024: The Narendra Modi government on Sunday appointed Arvind Panagariya, a former vice president of government's main policy think tank NITI Aayog, as the chairman of a new finance commission that will recommend how federal…
