- Thursday, February 27, 2025
INDIAN tourists spent more than 623,000 nights in Germany in 2022, a 209 per cent increase compared to the previous year, but the number was still 65 per cent of the pre-pandemic levels, according to new data from the German National Tourist Board. Romit Theophilus, director India for the German…
INDIAN opposition leader Rahul Gandhi found himself in the middle of another storm on Wednesday (9), just two days after he was reinstated as a parliamentarian following his four-month-long disqualification after a conviction in a criminal defamation case, as his women counterparts from the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) accused…
INDIAN National Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, who was reinstated as a parliamentarian earlier this week after the Supreme Court of India stayed his conviction in a criminal defamation case for his 'Modi surname' remark in 2019, delivered on Wednesday (9) a rousing speech in the Lok Sabha or Lower House…
IN a heart-wrenching incident, the father of a 14-year-old girl in Bhilwara in the northern Indian state of Rajasthan tried to jump onto the burning pyre of his daughter who was allegedly gangraped and killed. He was saved but got injured and was recovering in a local hospital. Seven people…
HERE are news in brief related to Indian economy and business for Tuesday, August 8, 2023: India's Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation along with state licensing authorities has conducted risk-based inspections of 162 pharmaceutical firms and issued show-cause notices in 143 cases, Indian health minister Mansukh Mandaviya said on Tuesday.…
SURYAKUMAR Yadav smashed 83 off 44 balls as India beat the West Indies by seven wickets in the third T20 international in Guyana on Tuesday to keep the series alive. After India lost T20 debutant Yashasvi Jaiswal and Shubman Gill cheaply in pursuit of 160, Suryakumar took charge in a…
NEW York City is hoping to welcome more than 300,000 travellers from India this year as the city witnesses economic recovery that has helped the growing momentum in tourist footfalls, New York City Tourism and Conventions EVP, Global Communications, Tiffany Townsend has said. "The pace of tourism's rebound helps fuel…
IN a major development in the politics of Pakistan, the country's election body on Tuesday (8) disqualified former prime minister Imran Khan for a period of five years following his conviction in a corruption case last week. On Saturday (5), a trial court in Islamabad sentenced the 70-year-old cricketer-turned-politician, who…
PAKISTANI prime minister Shehbaz Sharif is likely to resign on Wednesday (9), as his coalition government prepares to prematurely dissolve Pakistan's National Assembly to extend the timeline for conducting the upcoming general elections. While the five-year term of the Lower House is set to conclude on Saturday (12), Sharif is…
IN an incident that earned the Narendra Modi government criticism, a professor in India has allegedly been suspended for challenging a claim by the prime minister that all people in India have access to a lavatory. However, KS James, a demographer and scholar, has not found him alone in the…
