PEOPLE with higher cognition were more likely to vote in favour of the UK staying on as a member of the European Union (EU), new research has found. Researchers at the University of Bath, UK, also found that both high cognitive abilities of one’s partner and the highest cognitive ability…
"HE looked very stressed and impatient and kept asking us when would they come out," Sunita, whose brother-in-law Virender is among the 41 workers trapped inside the collapsed tunnel in Silkyara here for the past 13 days, said on Saturday (25). Virender's plea summed up the mood among the trapped…
INDIAN prime minister Narendra Modi on Saturday (25) took a sortie on the country's domestically made light-combat fighter aircraft Tejas in Bengaluru in the southern state of Karnataka. He visited the city-based Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL), a defence public-sector undertaking and reviewed the work underway at its manufacturing facility, official…
INDIA is embarking on the establishment of its inaugural strategic natural gas reserves by repurposing antiquated hydrocarbon wells to serve as storage units, thus fortifying itself against potential disruptions in global supply, as disclosed by a high-ranking executive from GAIL (India) Ltd, a prominent natural gas company on Friday (24).…
RUSSIA, one of India's time-tested allies, has lauded the latter's presidency of the G20 groupings in 2022-23 and said the bloc's summit resulted in "extremely productive" and "good results" under New Delhi's chairmanship. Dmitry Peskov, spokesperson of the Kremlin, said this on Friday (24). India on Wednesday (22) held a…
HERE are news in brief related to Indian economy and business for Friday, November 24, 2023: The Supreme Court of India on Friday said it has no reason to "discredit" India's market regulator SEBI (Securities & Exchange Board of India), which probed allegations against the Adani Group, as there was…
AN intense election season is underway in India at the moment with five states going to polls and they are being called as the semi-final ahead of next year's big 'final' -- the general elections. An interesting aspect of these state elections is that the country's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party…
THE embassy of Afghanistan in New Delhi has shut as diplomats appointed by the previous government in Kabul ousted by the Taliban in 2021 failed to secure extensions of the visas from their Indian hosts, the outgoing ambassador said on Friday (24) in a statement. New Delhi doesn't recognise the…
Indian external affairs minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, speaking at the 6th India-Japan Indo-Pacific Forum, recently highlighted the steadily broadening India-Japan partnership in recent years. "It is reflected in arrangements such as the Quad, the supply chain resilience initiative, the clean energy partnership, and the semiconductor supply chain partnership. We have also…
INDIAN prime minister Narendra Modi will attend the UN climate talks in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, on December 1 and deliver a national statement highlighting India's climate action, sources said on Friday (24). He will reach the Middle Eastern country on November 30, deliver India's national statement during the United…