- Thursday, February 27, 2025
INDIA'S Narendra Modi government has set itself a target of increasing the country's port capacity to more than 10,000 Metric Ton Per Annum (MTPA) from the current 2,600 MTPA by 2047, minister for ports, shipping and waterways Sarbananda Sonowal said in Kevadia in the western state of Gujarat over the…
DIVERSIFIED group Larsen & Toubro (L&T) on Monday (21) said it has secured a "significant" order from Australia's Perdaman Chemicals & Fertilisers to build a 2.3 million tonne urea plant in the island-continent. On completion, the facility will be the largest urea plant in Australia and one of the largest…
INDIA'S digital infrastructure has made the headlines of late with a number of countries applauding its Unified Payments Interface (UPI) which is an indigenously built fast payment system which facilitates inter-bank peer-to-peer and person-to-merchant transaction facilities. A number of nations, including Sri Lanka, France, United Arab Emirates and Singapore so…
WHILE Indian prime minister Narendra Modi's bilateral meetings on the sidelines of the upcoming BRICS summit in Johannesburg in South Africa are being finalised, there was no confirmation yet whether he would hold talks with Chinese president Xi Jinping. Indian foreign secretary Vinay Kwatra said this on Monday (21). Modi…
SEVENTEEN Indian nationals, who were held captive by an armed group in Libya, have been rescued and brought back to India following sustained efforts by India's ministry of external affairs (MEA), people familiar with the matter said on Monday (21). The Indian nationals, hailing from the northern states of Punjab…
THE top investigating agency of Nepal has interrogated two of its former prime ministers for the first time for their alleged role in a high-profile land grab scam, it said on Monday (21). The Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) spoke to Madhav Kumar Nepal (served between 2009-11) and Baburam Bhattarai (2011-13)…
BIJULI PRADAS, India's oldest domestic Asiatic elephant, on Monday (21) passed away in Sonitpur district of the eastern state of Assam, officials said. They added that the animal breathed its last at the Behali Tea Estate of the Williamson Magor Group around 3.30 am local time due to age-related ailments.…
LUCY Letby, who was last week found guilty of killing seven newborn babies besides as many counts of attempted murder relating to six others in 2015-16, was on Monday (21) sentenced to a whole-life term by a UK court. The 33-year-old committed the crime while working at a hospital in…
Y S JAGANMOHAN Reddy, chief minister of the south-eastern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, has asked his government officials to gather details about students from the state who have been stranded in the US as authorities in the North American country were deporting them over visa concerns. Besides asking the…
THREE persons sustained injuries following a clash started between two gangs during a game of kabaddi in the UK on Sunday (20). According to the police, one of the three injured in the incident that was reported from the Derby Kabaddi grounds at Elvaston Lane, Alvaston in Derbyshire, received serious…
