- Friday, February 28, 2025
INDIAN PRIME minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday (20) left for the US for his first state visit -- the highest diplomatic reception reserved for Washington's closest friends. Besides engagements with the diplomatic and business circles, the visit is also likely to witness an unprecedented deal on jet engine technology, reports…
IN A recent official order, Senior IPS (Indian Police Service) officer Ravi Sinha has been appointed as the new chief of India's external intelligence agency, the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW). Sinha will succeed Samant Kumar Goel, whose four-year tenure concludes on June 30. Sinha, a 1988 batch Indian Police…
PRIME MINISTER Narendra Modi will visit the US on Tuesday (20) at the invitation of president Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden. It will be his first state visit to the US and the eighth overall since he became the prime minister in 2014. Modi will be in the…
PRIME MINISTER Narendra Modi's upcoming state visit to the US has garnered significant support from tech leaders in Silicon Valley. A conference titled 'India-US partnership: A key to new world Tech-Order,' organised by the NID Foundation and Indian Minorities Foundation in San Jose, California, served as a curtain-raiser event for…
Here are news in brief related to Indian economy and business for Monday, June 19, 2023: Europe's Airbus on Monday announced the biggest plane deal in history with an order for 500 narrow-body planes from Indian carrier IndiGo. Monday was the opening day of the Paris Airshow. The multibillion-dollar deal…
FIVE PEOPLE were killed and at least 80 were injured in a head-on collision between two buses in Cuddalore district of the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu on Monday (19). Both the vehicles were damaged badly and the local people and police personnel rushed to the rescue of the…
WHENEVER any top Indian leader, including prime minister Narendra Modi, visits a foreign country, the Indian diaspora settled there come up with a massive response. While India's bilateral ties with nations that some of the country's top leaders visit receive wide coverage in the media, the diaspora's excitement and engagement…
FOLLOWING THE controversy surrounding a dialogue in the Indian film Adipurush, both Kathmandu Metropolis and Pokhara Metropolitan City in the neighbouring Nepal have imposed a ban on the screening of Indian films. The mayors of both cities issued orders directing cinema halls to stop showing Bollywood films and replace them…
UK HOME Secretary Suella Braverman has expressed her "full support" for the increased use of stop and search powers by the police in order to tackle knife crime and prevent attacks in the country. This comes in response to three recent incidents of knife attacks in England, which resulted in…
PRIME MINISTER Rishi Sunak has said that he shared some barfi (an Indian sweet) made by his mother with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy at Downing Street recently, hours before his latest talk with the latter over phone on Monday (19). The 43-year-old Conservative leader of Indian origin posted a reel…
