- Thursday, February 27, 2025
IN a shocking incident, a woman in India jumped in front of a moving bus to get financial assistance from the government to pay her son's college fees but she died. The incident happened on June 28 in Salem in the southern state of Tamil Nadu where the ill-fated woman…
A NEW research from Grant Thornton UK LLP's Business Outlook Tracker has revealed that India is a crucial international growth market for the UK mid-market. The finding has come while negotiations continue over for a UK-India Free Trade Agreement (FTA). The Grant Thornton Business Outlook Tracker is a bi-monthly survey…
TWENTY SIX opposition parties that came together in Bengaluru in the southern Indian state of Karnataka this week to streamline a strategy and pose a united front to take on prime minister Narendra Modi ahead of the 2024 general elections have branded themselves under the acronym 'INDIA', signifiying Indian National…
INDIAN prime minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday (18) launched one of the fiercest attacks against the Opposition, accusing them of prioritising their own families over the welfare of the nation. Speaking at the inauguration of a new terminal at Veer Savarkar airport in Port Blair in the Andaman and Nicobar…
SENIOR Indian National Congress leader Oommen Chandy, who served as the chief minister of the southern state of Kerala twice, died in a private hospital in Bengaluru in the neighbouring state of Karnataka in the early hours of Tuesday (18), his family said. He was 79. Chandy's death was announced…
HERE are news in brief related to Indian economy and business for Monday, July 17, 2023: India and the US have agreed to collaborate on a new investment platform aimed at reducing the cost of the former's energy transition, as confirmed by statements from the finance ministers of both nations…
WORLD Bank president Ajay Banga on Monday (17) expressed optimism about India's economy, saying he is more positive now than he has been "in a long time". Speaking on the sidelines of the G20 finance ministers and central bank governors' meeting in Gandhinagar, the capital of the Indian state of…
THE arrival of a Pakistani woman in India to marry a Hindu man she befriended through an online gaming platform and live with him has seen reactions on both sides of the border. Pakistan's intelligence agencies have informed the country's government that Seema Ghulam Haider, mother of four, sneaked into…
MEMBERS of the Indian diaspora in Germany on Saturday (15) gathered in Frankfurt to protest and appeal to prime minister Narendra Modi for assistance in reuniting baby Ariha Shah with her Indian parents in the European country. The two-year-old girl is currently in German state services custody. Despite rain, the…
ALMOST 135 million people in India or 10 per cent of India's population escaped poverty in five years till March 2021, a government report on Monday (17) found. The study said that the rural areas witnessed the biggest reduction in poverty. It used the United Nations' Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI)…
