• Saturday, March 01, 2025

Amazon Web Services to invest £10.2b in cloud infrastructure in…

Amazon Web Services (AWS) on Thursday (18) announced plans to invest £10.2 billion in cloud infrastructure in India by 2030 as it looks to meet growing customer demand for cloud services in the country. The planned investment in data centre infrastructure in India will support an estimated average of 1,31,700…

Frenemies! India deploys aircraft to rescue crew on board Chinese…

Tense relationships at the border did not stop India from sending its "Air MR assets" on Wednesday (17) after the Chinese Navy requested assistance in the ongoing search for a fishing vessel from China that sank in the Indian Ocean. The ill-fated vessel had 39 people on board, including 17…

This Ireland batter eclipses giants Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma in…

With less than four years of experience in international cricket, he has not been as known a face but Harry Tector has turned heads by overtaking giant batters such as Virat Kohli, Quinton de Kock, Rohit Sharma, Steve Smith and others in the latest one-day international (ODI) batters' rankings released…

Sixty fugitives extradited or deported to India between 2002 &…

In more than a decade since 2002, 60 fugitives were extradited or deported by foreign governments to India, as it received a major victory in its fight to bring the perpetrators of the 2008 Mumbai attacks to justice when a US federal court agreed to the extradition of Pakistani-origin Canadian…

India’s controversial law minister Kiren Rijiju replaced, sent to earth…

In a move that surprised many, India's law minister Kiren Rijiju was on Thursday (18) replaced by Arjun Ram Meghwal. The development comes just a year before the national election. The 51-year-old Rijiju, who is a parliamentarian from the north-eastern-most state of Arunachal Pradesh, and has held a number of…

G20 event in Kashmir: China, Turkey to skip; low participation…

The upcoming tourism working group meeting of the Group of 20 (G20) in Srinagar in Jammu and Kashmir, India, is set to witness a low-level participation from several nations while China and Turkey, members of the G20, will not take part in the event, the Hindustan Times reported citing informed…

Imran Khan warns Pakistan heading towards imminent disaster, may face…

Pakistan's embattled former prime minister Imran Khan has cautioned that the country is heading towards an imminent disaster and may face disintegration as he accused the ruling coalition of hatching a conspiracy to pit the army against his Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party. In a video address made from his residence…

Laxman Shankar Kevate, conductor of Maharashtra’s first state transport bus,…

Laxman Shankar Kevate, the conductor of the inaugural state transport (ST) bus on Pune-Ahmednagar route in the modern-day western Indian state of Maharashtra which commenced operations on June 1, 1948, has died, officials said on Thursday (18). He was 99. Kevate passed away on Wednesday (17) night at his residence…

Ahead of Modi visit, US court approves 26/11 terror attack…

A month before prime minister Narendra Modi's first state visit to the US, a federal court in that country agreed to New Delhi's request, through Washington, for the extradition of Pakistani-origin Canadian businessman Tahawwur Rana to India where he is sought for his involvement in the 2008 (or 26/11 since…

Karnataka deadlock ends as Congress picks Siddaramaiah as chief minister,…

The Indian National Congress on Thursday (18) announced Siddaramaiah as its pick as the next chief minister of the southern state of Karnataka, ending five days of suspense over who between the former and DK Shivakumar would lead the new government. Shivakumar, who was also a strong contender for the…