• Thursday, February 27, 2025

Modi reaches Bengaluru from Greece to meet ISRO scientists after…

INDIAN prime minister Narendra Modi on Saturday (26) directly flew to the southern city of Bengaluru from Athens, the capital of Greece, to speak with scientists at the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on the successful Chandrayaan-3 mission and announced that the surface on the moon where the Vikram lander…

Stationary train compartment in India’s Tamil Nadu catches fire: 10…

AT LEAST 10 people were charred to death while more than 20 injured after a massive fire broke out inside a stationary compartment of a train at a railway station in Madurai in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu early on Saturday (26). According to the Southern Railway, the…

India economy & business news in brief for Aug 25:…

HERE are news in brief related to Indian economy and business for Friday, August 25, 2023: Artificial intelligence (AI) will create more jobs in India as it will empower more people with little skill or no skill to perform higher level jobs, B20 India chair N Chandrasekaran said in New…

Sitharaman says India hopes to conclude free trade deal with…

INDIAN finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday (25) said that the country is hopeful about concluding talks over a free trade deal with Britain by the end of the current year. Her remark came in the middle of broad contours of the deal aimed at boosting economic growth and employment…

India showed its capability to world by hoisting Tricolour on…

INDIAN prime minister Narendra Modi said on Friday (25) that the country has shown its capability to the world by hoisting the Tricolour on the moon, asserting that its science and technology and innovation are creating a wave globally. India's Chandrayaan-3 successfully touched down on the moon's unexplored South Pole…

Second ODI: Pakistan No.10 batter Naseem Shah gives team breathtaking…

NUMBER 10 batsman Naseem Shah hit a boundary off the penultimate delivery to give Pakistan a dramatic one-wicket win over a luckless Afghanistan in the second ODI at Hambantota on Thursday (24). The 20-year-old miscued a boundary off fast bowler Fazalhaq Farooqi and ran jubilantly towards the dressing room as…

Putin has ‘no plans’ to visit India for G20 summit…

RUSSIAN president Vladimir Putin is set to skip the G20 summit which will be held in New Delhi, India, on September 9 and 10, sources in the Kremlin said on Friday (25). Russia's official Tass news agency quoted Dmitry Peskov, spokesperson of the Kremlin, as saying, "No, the president has…

Iconic India Club in London with roots in Indian freedom…

THE he iconic India Club in London is set to shut down permanently in September after failing to win a long battle against its closure, leaving several non-resident Indians in the UK as well as nostalgic hearts in India shattered. The club -- a historic meeting venue besides an eatery…

Which side sought Modi-Xi talks on BRICS sidelines? India, China…

TWO days after Indian prime minister Narendra Modi and Chinese president Xi Jinping held talks in Johannesburg, South Africa, where they went for the 15th BRICS summit, New Delhi and Beijing on Friday (25) offered different views on which side sought the leaders' engagement. According to the Indian side, a…

Lauding India’s lunar mission success from abroad: Modi’s foreign policy…

INDIAN prime minister Narendra Modi has a brilliant knack of connecting nationalistic fervours with his government's foreign policy. The leader makes sure during each of his foreign tours that the interests and aspirations of India are duly served, through promotion of government policies and national accomplishments, and his latest trip…