HERE are news in brief on Indian economy and business for Wednesday, September 20, 2023: The US and India are set to collaborate on a project to deploy 10,000 made-in-India electric buses in Indian cities, the American embassy said on Wednesday in a statement. A key component of the project…
EVER since bringing allegations of the Indian government agents' 'potential link' with the murder of Khalistan separatist leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar in Canada in June, Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau has faced a backlash both in India and as well as at home. Amarinder Singh, former chief minister of the…
THE Indian parliament remained witness to a historic moment on Wednesday (20) when the bill (Nari Shakti Vandan Adhiniyam) providing 33 per cent reservation to women in the federal and state legislative assemblies was passed in the Lok Sabha or Lower House of the parliament after a fierce debate that…
INDIAN prime minister Narendra Modi has invited US president Joe Biden to attend celebrations for India's Republic Day on January 26 next year, American ambassador to New Delhi Eric Garcetti said on Wednesday (20). The envoy said Modi extended the invitation on the sidelines of the bilateral talk that took…
AFTER arranging for a sustenance budget of Rs 1 crore (£97,198) that keeps him going on the ATP Tour, India's No.1 tennis player Sumit Nagal is left with less than Rs 1 lakh (£972) in his bank account and a morose feeling of not leading a good life. He has…
INDIA's ministry of external affairs (MEA) on Wednesday (20) issued a release advising the country's nationals and students in Canada and those planning on travelling to the country to exercise caution amid the ongoing diplomatic confrontation between New Delhi and Ottawa. "Indian nationals and students in Canada must also register…
IN a bid to boost her industry-friendly image ahead of next year's national elections, Mamata Banerjee, chief minister of the eastern Indian state of West Bengal and one of the major opposition faces, on Tuesday (19) said Bengal will be a "gamechanger" not just for India but the entire world…
AMID India's diplomatic row with Canada over the killing of Khalistan separatist leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar in British Columbia in June, firebrand Sikh secessionist leader Gurpatwant Singh Pannun has threatened Indo-Canadian Hindus to return to India. In a video that went viral in the middle of the New Delhi-Ottawa diplomatic…
THE United States is set to emerge as a major cricketing host next year when it will stage the T20 World Cup jointly with the West Indies. It will be the first time that the country, which had played the first-ever cricket match against Canada in 1844 in New York…
BRITISH Labour parliamentarian Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi on Tuesday (19) reacted to allegations brought by Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau against India over its potential link with the assassination of Khalistan separatist leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar in Canada's British Columbia in June saying many "anxious, angry and fearful Sikhs" spoke to…