• Friday, February 28, 2025

Foxconn to begin making iPhones in Karnataka by next April

Here are news in brief related to Indian economy and business for Friday, June 2, 2023: Apple Inc supplier Foxconn is set to begin manufacturing iPhones in the southern Indian state of Karnataka by April next year, the state government said on Thursday, Reuters reported. The land for the factory…

Wrestlers protest: Farmer leader gives Modi government June 9 deadline…

A "khap mahapanchayat" (mega village meeting) held in Kurukshetrea in the northern Indian state of Haryana on Friday (2) demanded the arrest of Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) chief and BJP MP Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh and said if the demand is not met, farmers will take the protesting wrestlers…

India asks Germany to send back Baby Ariha, living in…

India on Friday (2) urged Germany to send back at the earliest an Indian baby girl who has been living in foster care in Berlin for over 20 months, asserting it is important for the child to be in her linguistic, religious, cultural and social environment. The German authorities had…

BRICS no longer an alternative but an ‘established feature’ of…

The BRICS grouping is not only an expression of multipolarity but of the many ways of meeting international challenges, India's external affairs minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar said on Friday (2), asserting that the five-nation bloc is an "established feature" of the global landscape. Addressing the Friends of BRICS foreign ministers' meeting…

Massive accident involving 3 trains in Odisha; Modi expresses grief

Several people were reportedly killed while 400 got injured when a passenger train rammed into the derailed coaches of another in Bahanaga Bazar area in Balasore district of the eastern Indian state of Odisha. A goods train was also involved in the accident, Odisha's chief secretary Pradeep Jena told India's…

Belligerent Chinese tabloid warns India against joining NATO Plus despite…

The Chinese media have expressed concerns over the US allegedly wooing India to persuade it to join the NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation) Plus saying citing experts that if New Delhi made the "unwise choice" of leaning towards NATO, it would harm its strategic autonomy, international status and relations with…

Now, cricket icon Sachin Tendulkar gets ‘dragged’ into India wrestlers…

With the ongoing protest by some of India's accomplished wrestlers snowballing into a major issue, the country's legendary former cricketer Sachin Tendulkar also found himself dragged into the controversy as some of the opposition parties and their wings questioned his alleged silence over the matter. Earlier this week, workers of…

India’s 1983 World Cup-winning team backs protesting wrestlers, urges them…

Members of India's 1983 World Cup-winning team on Friday (2) came out in support of the protesting women wrestlers and urged them not to take any hasty decision about throwing their medals into the Ganges river and hoped that players' issues will be "heard and resolved". In a joint statement,…

Gambia hires US law firm to explore action on toxic…

The Gambia has roped in an American law firm to assess legal action after a government-backed probe found that contaminated medicines from India were "very likely" to have led to deaths of children in that country last year, the African nation's justice minister Dawda Jallow told Reuters. At least 70…

In violence-rocked Manipur, over 140 weapons surrendered after home minister…

More than 140 weapons have been surrendered in different places of the violence-hit north-eastern Indian state of Manipur after home minister Amit Shah's appeal a day ago, sources said on Friday (2). Shah, on the concluding day of his four-day visit to Manipur on Thursday (1), appealed to all concerned to…