EFFECTS of the communal clash that started on Monday (31) in Nuh district of the northern Indian state of Haryana has now reached sector 70 of Gurugram, one of the country's financial and technological hubs, and less than 20 kilometres away from the national capital New Delhi. Authorities imposed prohibitory…
INDIA swiftly erased the memory of a poor second match to annihilate the West Indies by 200 runs in the decisive third and final one-day international at the Brian Lara Stadium on Tuesday (1). Even with senior players in captain Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli still rested the tourists' batting…
INDIA'S National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Tuesday (1) conducted extensive raids at 31 locations in the northern states of Punjab and Haryana to uncover the complete conspiracy behind the attack on the country's high commission in London on March 19. The NIA aimed to apprehend the attackers and assailants responsible…
HERE are news in brief related to Indian economy and business for Tuesday, August 1: A delegation of the World Bank on Tuesday met Gujarat chief minister Bhupendra Patel in state capital Gandhinagar, praising the state's sustainable green growth approach and impressive development. They visited key locations like Sabarmati riverfront…
INDIA'S rise as an economy in the era of prime minister Narendra Modi is something that experts intensely debate and speculation is rife over the South Asian nation's further economic elevation globally. Last week, prime minister Narendra Modi remarked that India will become the third-largest economy in the world by…
THE Indian government is in constant touch with the family of an Indian woman who has gone missing after she fell overboard from a ship as it sailed through the Strait of Singapore from Penang, the northern island state of Peninsular Malaysia, the Indian high commission in the Southeast Asian…
HE was a school dropout who managed a living for his family by working as a newspaper boy and on building sites. But his fortunes eventually smiled on him and he ended up bagging one of India's prestigious literary prizes. Akhil Kavintarikath was only 16 when his father gave up…
THE Narendra Modi government on Tuesday (1) said that it has asked a drug maker, whose cough syrup was linked to deaths of at least six minors in Cameroon, to halt the manufacturing. The said firm is the fourth from India to face a crackdown over tainted drugs. The move…
INDIAN prime minister Narendra Modi was on Tuesday (1) conferred with the Lokmanya Tilak National Award at an event in Pune in the western state of Maharashtra. Modi, who is in the city to launch various development projects, received the prestigious award that was constituted by Tilak Smarak Mandir Trust…
AN elderly British Sikh man, who walked into a police station in London three months ago to inform officers that he had murdered his wife, has pleaded guilty to killing her with a hard wooden bat used in the game of rounders. Tarsame Singh, 79, appeared at Snaresbrook Crown Court…