- Sunday, February 23, 2025
HERE are news on Indian economy and business for Friday, May 31, 2024: Adani Group saw a 55 per cent profit surge in the fiscal year ended March 2024 as the apples-to-airport conglomerate is back on an expansion spree and eyeing a $90 billion capex over the next decade. Emerging…
FIFTY-SEVEN constituencies across seven states and the Union Territory (UT) of Chandigarh will go to polls in the seventh and final phase of India's general elections on Saturday (1) that include Varanasi, from where prime minister Narendra Modi is seeking his third consecutive term. Polling is scheduled in all 13…
INDIAN president Droupadi Murmu on Friday (31) accepted credentials from envoys of seven countries, including the United Kingdom and China, at a ceremony held at Rashtrapati Bhavan, her official residence in New Delhi. Besides Lindy Elizabeth Cameron, who took over as the British high commissioner in India in April succeeding…
AT LEAST 22 people were killed and more than 50 injured after a bus carrying pilgrims skidded off the road and rolled down into a gorge in Jammu district of the northern Indian Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday (30), officials said. The accident took place at the…
OF the 477,000 calls received on the Indian government's national tobacco cessation quitline that is operated by the Vallabhbhai Patel Chest Institute (VPCI) in New Delhi, 144,938 callers have quit tobacco in any form, officials said on Friday (31), which was observed as the World No Tobacco Day. Since the…
IN what could be a concern for the Indian authorities, a jailed Sikh separatist leader is contesting the seventh and final phase of the country's general election which will be held on Saturday (1). New Delhi has taken a strong stand against any revival of Sikh militancy and has lodged…
DISTANCING himself from Labour deputy leader Angela Rayner over her stance in the ongoing row around veteran party MP Diane Abbott, the party's leader Keir Starmer has refused to express a view on whether he would like the left-wing parliamentarian from Hackney North and Stoke Newington to contest the July…
BRUHAT SOMA, a 12-year-old Indian-American seventh-grade student from Florida, has won the Scripps National Spelling Bee after he spelt 29 words correctly in the tiebreaker, maintaining the dominance of the children from the small ethnic community in the prestigious competition. Bruhat emerged victorious in the Scripps National Spelling Bee on…
INDIA'S premier carrier Air India made the headlines once again for wrong reasons on Thursday (30) when some of its passengers reportedly fainted after waiting inside a delayed aircraft without air conditioning for several hours. Several people expressed their plight on X and shared visuals showing fliers waiting in what…
THE first visuals of prime minister Narendra Modi meditating at Vivekananda Rock Memorial in Kanyakumari in the southern state of Tamil Nadu came out on Friday (31) that showed him in a trance in front of a statue of the 19th century Hindu monk Swami Vivekananda who had also meditated…
