- Saturday, March 01, 2025
Indian prime minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday (16) said he would meet chief executives of leading companies from across the world next week and all of them are enthusiastic about making investments in the country. The prime minister was addressing the National Rozgar Mela (national employment fair) through videoconference and…
Indian billionaire Gautam Adani arranged for an air ambulance to help transfer mountaineer Anurag Maloo, who was rescued after falling into a deep crevasse in Nepal's Mount Annapurna last month, from Kathmandu to the elite All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in New Delhi. Aashish Maloo, the mountaineer's brother,…
Jonny Bairstow, Chris Woakes and Mark Wood returned to the England Test team after a while as the Three Lions on Tuesday (16) announced a 15-member squad for the only Test against Ireland starting at Lord's on June 1. Speedster Jofra Archer was the only notable absentee as he suffered…
The arrival of monsoon in India, the lifeblood of the country's economy, is likely to be delayed this year and is predicted to hit the southern state of Kerala on June 4, Indian Meteorological Department (IMD), the state-run weather office on Tuesday (16) said. Monsoon delivers nearly 70 per cent…
Fire department officials rushed in after the house of a senior official of a private company caught fire. But during the incident, accounted cash worth Rs 1.65 crore (£160,485) were discovered. The incident has happened in Hyderabad in the southern Indian state of Telangana. According to reports, the fire officials…
Pakistan's chief justice Umar Ata Bandial, who was recently criticised by the country's ruling alliance for greeting former prime minister Imran Khan in the Supreme Court with the words “good to see you”, clarified on Tuesday (16) that it was part of court etiquette and carried no political connotation. Chief…
India on Tuesday (16) strongly rejected as "baseless and unwarranted" UN Special Rapporteur on Minority Issues Fernand de Varennes's statement objecting to holding a G20 meeting in Jammu and Kashmir alleging human rights violations in the Union Territory, and attacked him for acting "irresponsibly to politicise this issue". Permanent Mission…
Bangladesh has withdrawn the “extra security escort” provided to top diplomats of India and three other countries, with foreign minister Dr AK Abdul Momen saying Dhaka will not provide this service with taxpayers' money. Policemen equipped with riot gear used to escort in their vans the envoys of India, the…
A group of senior executives of Tesla Inc. is set to visit India this week to meet government officials in a fresh bid to deepen the auto major's supply chain in the South Asian nation as an effort to diversify beyond China, Bloomberg reported. The executives are scheduled to meet…
It seems the Indian National Congress's challenges are not reducing even after it humbled the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of prime minister Narendra Modi in the recent elections in the southern Indian state of Karnataka. While the party is cautiously approaching to resolve the problem of choosing either of two…
