- Thursday, February 27, 2025
AT a time when the Labour Party is stressing on deeper ties with India, its shadow business minister Seema Malhotra backed greater trade links between the UK and the south Asian nation on a visit to its two southernmost states of Kerala and Tamil Nadu recently. The Feltham and Heston…
THE family of Babita Deokaran, a senior Indian-origin official at the Gauteng provincial health department in South Africa who was killed in 2021 for helping to expose a multi-million dollar personal protective equipment (PPE) fraud that took place at the time of Covid-19 pandemic, has refused to accept apology from…
An Indian American auditor has pleaded guilty to the charges of embezzling more than $2.7 million (£2.1 million) from his real estate employer. Varun Aggarwal, 41, who previously was an executive at a commercial real estate agency in California pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud. He submitted fictitious…
INDIAN prime minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday (22) reached Johannesburg in South Africa to participate in the BRICS summit that kicked off the same day. Speculation was rife whether the Indian leader will have a bilateral meeting with Xi Jinping, the president of China, which is also a member of…
MEMBERS of the Indian diaspora in South Africa were excited ahead of prime minister Narendra Modi's visit to the country for the BRICS summit which kicked off on Tuesday (22) and expressed hope that India will help the African nation in various sectors such as health and green energy. The…
QAMAR Mohsin Sheikh, Indian prime minister Narendra Modi's 'rakhi' sister of Pakistani origin, is set to visit New Delhi to tie him a 'rakhi' on the occasion of the Raksha Bandhan festival later this month. Sheikh has been sending rakhis to the Indian prime minister every year for the last…
SINGAPORE-BORN Indian-origin minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam was on Tuesday (22) officially announced as a candidate for the prosperous city-state's presidential election on September 1, along with two Chinese-origin former business executives. The 66-year-old Tharman, a former deputy prime minister of Singapore; investment chief of state-owned company Ng Kok Song, 75, and…
INDIAN prime minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday (22) left for Johannesburg in South Africa to take part in the 15th BRICS summit, expressing confidence that the occasion will create a useful opportunity for the member states to identify future areas of cooperation and review institutional development. In his departure statement,…
CONTINUING his dream run, Indian Grandmaster (GM) R Praggnanandhaa on Monday (21) stunned world No.3 Fabiano Caruana 3.5-2.5 via the tie-break in the semifinals to set up a summit clash with world number one Magnus Carlsen of Norway at the FIDE World Cup chess tournament in Baku, Azerbaijan. After the…
HERE are news related to Indian economy and business for Monday, August 21, 2023: India's science and technology minister Jitendra Singh on Monday highlighted in New Delhi India's big strides in space technology under the leadership of prime minister Narendra Modi and that the country has taken the lead in…
