HERE are news in brief related to Indian economy and business for Wednesday, November 29, 2023: On Wednesday, the Income Tax department conducted a survey at Hinduja Global Solutions, part of the Hinduja Group, in Mumbai and other cities as part of a tax evasion investigation. The survey, authorized by…
NEPAL officially recorded its first same-sex marriage on Wednesday (29), five months after its Supreme Court legalised it, establishing the country as the first in South Asia to achieve the milestone. Trans-woman Maya Gurung, 35 and Surendra Pandey, 27, a gay, got legally married and their marriage was registered at…
ARNOLD Dix, an Australian tunnelling expert who remained on the site while 41 Indian workers were being rescued from a collapsed under-construction tunnel in the Himalayan state of Uttarakhand, has revealed his experience during the entire episode. The specialist in underground transportation and infrastructure from Melbourne, who has been praised…
INDIAN railway minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Wednesday (29) gave a major update about the country's much awaited bullet train project saying the maiden section of the high-speed train -- a 50-kilometre stretch between Bilimoria and Surat in the western state of Gujarat -- will be completed in August 2026. He…
LUFTHANSA Airlines have informed that after the Bangkok-bound flight was diverted to Delhi, the "unruly passenger" of German nationality has been offloaded in the national capital on Wednesday (29). A Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) official said that the airline is coordinating with the German Embassy regarding the passenger.…
INDIAN prime minister Narendra Modi spoke over the telephone to the workers who were rescued from inside a collapsed under-construction tunnel in the Himalayan state of Uttarakhand late on Tuesday (28) night hours after they were brought out. All the workers, who remained confined behind the debris for 17 days,…
"HUMAN labour triumphing over machinery." This is how the world media described the climax of an incredible and perilous weeks-long rescue operation for 41 construction workers trapped in a collapsed mountain tunnel in the Himalayan state of Uttarakhand. As rescuers in India on Tuesday (28) evening successfully pulled out all…
CHARLIE Munger, the legendary American businessman and a close partner of Warren Buffett who passed away on Tuesday (28) at a hospital in California at the age of 99, was aware of his popularity in Asia and had also said in an interview in 2019 that most of his followers…
A 23-YEAR-OLD Indian student has been arrested and charged for allegedly murdering his grandparents and uncle inside a New Jersey condominium, police and US media reports said. Om Brahmbhatt is accused of shooting Dilipkumar Brahmbhatt, 72, Bindu Brahmbhatt, 72, and Yashkumar Brahmbhatt, 38, the South Plainfield Police Department and the…
INDIA'S nervous wait to see the rescue of 41 workers who got trapped behind a collapsed under-construction tunnel in the Himalayan state of Uttarakhand got over late on Tuesday (28) night when authorities pulled them out after executing manual drilling after modern machinery failed. The workers, who hail from different…