AIR INDIA has revealed plans to initiate non-stop flights between Bengaluru and London Gatwick (LGW) beginning August 18, marking the Indian city to be fifth in the country to get connected to the UK’s second-largest airport, the airline said in a release. This move, enhancing Air India’s footprint in the…
FOR the Chinese, seeing Indian prime minister Narendra Modi getting a reduced majority in the recently held general elections was perhaps a delightful experience. The reasons are not too difficult to assess. No other country in Asia counter-balances China like India does and as an evolving manufacturing hub with the…
THE T20 World Cup 2024 witnessed one of the major upsets of the game on Thursday (6) when newcomers USA shocked former champions Pakistan in a thrilling group game. Played at the Grand Prairie Stadium in Texas, the co-hosts of the current edition of the tournament defeated the Asian powerhouse…
THE UNITED STATES beat Pakistan in the T20 World Cup after their Group A match went to a thrilling Super Over finish in Dallas on Thursday. Both teams made 159 in their regulation 20 overs, with non-Test nation the United States then setting Pakistan 19 to win in the Super…
HERE are news in brief on Indian economy and business for Thursday, June 6, 2024: Green ammonia from a 200,000-metric tonne per annum plant to be built by a Singapore group in India will be exported to Japan under an agreement signed in Singapore on Thursday. Sembcorp Green Hydrogen Pte…
THE stands were almost full, but still there was an eerie sense of emptiness because the irrepressible Sunil Chhetri, after being intrinsically tied to Indian football for 19 years, was cutting the umbilical cord with no successor in sight. A sea of blue, with most fans sporting Chhetri's No. 11…
INDIAN prime minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) might have lost a number of seats in the recently held general elections, especially in the key northern state of Uttar Pradesh where its tally nosedived from 62 to 33, but none perhaps disappointed it more than the loss in Ayodhya…
NINE trekkers from the southern Indian state of Karnataka have lost their lives in the Himalayan state of Uttarakhand due to extreme weather conditions, officials said on Wednesday (5). A 22-member trekking team was sent by Himalayan View Trekking Agency, Maneri in Uttarakhand on May 29 on a 35-kilometre long…
INDIAN captain Rohit Sharma's bruised bicep is expected to heal before the key clash against arch-rivals Pakistan in New York on Sunday (9) but the Nassau County International Cricket Stadium's track, which is "bordering on dangerous with huge open cracks", has become a concern for stakeholders of the game trying…
THE Indian high commissioner to the UK, Vikram Doraiswami, on Wednesday (5) unveiled in London a report produced jointly by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and the Indian high commission on those states in the South Asian country from where foreign direct investment (FDI) has been received in the…