- Thursday, February 27, 2025
THE cricketing world was waiting for an exciting Saturday (2) as India and Pakistan were set to lock horns in the ongoing Asia Cup. The two former champions were playing each other at Pallekele International Stadium in Kandy in Sri Lanka in a Group A encounter and the Indian side,…
DAYS after becoming the first country ever to accomplish landing on the south pole of the moon, India on Saturday (2) launched yet another remarkable mission -- a solar observatory one. The country's space scientists on the day launched Aditya-L1 mission on the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle XL from the…
THARMAN Shanmugaratnam, an Indian-origin Singapore-born economist, won Singapore's presidential election on Friday (1), defeating two other Chinese-origin contenders in the country's first contested presidential polls since 2011. Shanmugaratnam, 66, who served as Singapore's deputy prime minister from 2011 to 2019, got 70.4 per cent votes while his rivals Ng Kok…
HERE are news related to Indian economy and business for Friday, September 1, 2023: India's antitrust body Competition Commission of India (CCI) on Friday granted approval for the merger of Tata group's Air India and sister airline Vistara, contingent on their adherence to voluntary commitments, Reuters reported. The approval comes…
MINING and oil giant Vedanta ran a "covert" lobbying campaign to weaken key environmental regulations during the Covid-19 pandemic, the Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) has said in a new report. After coming out with a damning report on Adani group promoters allegedly using proxies to route money…
WHILE a lot of bonhomie was on display as the opposition INDIA (Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance) members met for the third time on Thursday (31) and Friday (1) in the western city of Mumbai to display solidarity against the Narendra Modi-led government ahead of a series of elections, including…
US TREASURY secretary Janet Yellen is set to visit New Delhi to take part in the G20 leaders' summit scheduled for September 9 and 10. This will be her fourth visit to the south Asian nation in 10 months, the US treasury department on Thursday (31) said, Reuters reported. At…
CHINESE president Xi Jinping is unlikely to attend the upcoming G20 summit in New Delhi, India, next weekend, Reuters reported citing informed sources in both the Asian neighbours. Absence of the Chinese leader at the key summit would shatter chances of a meeting between him and US president Joe Biden…
RAHUL Gandhi, one of India's major opposition faces and a parliamentarian, has remarked that the country's "global reputation is on the fire" and wanted a parliamentary investigation to be started by prime minister Narendra Modi after a report by The Guardian reported about years of alleged violations by the Adanis,…
INDIA has suggested to all G20 nations to actively cooperate to comprehensively and efficiently deal with fugitive economic offenders as part of the action against them and recovery of the assets. In a nine-point agenda suggested to the G20 nations, New Delhi has conveyed that the member nations should form…
