Ace India batter Virat Kohli on Thursday (20) returned to lead Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) in their match against Punjab Kings (PBKS) in an Indian Premier League (IPL) match at the Punjab Cricket Association Stadium in Mohali in the northern state of Punjab. That happened despite the fact that RCB's…
Chris Nassetta, president and chief executive officer (CEO), Hilton, and Alan Watts, president, Asia Pacific, Hilton, were recently in India to take part in the Hotel Investment Conference - South Asia (HICSA 2023) in Bengaluru in the southern state of Karnataka. Reflecting on his visit, Watts spoke on the positive…
American tech giant Apple could double or even treble investments in India, along with exports, in the next few years, a minister said, as the company on Thursday (20) inaugurated a second store in the South Asian nation where its chief executive Tim Cook was present, Reuters reported. India is…
In a significant development, a special court in Ahmedabad in the western Indian state of Gujarat on Thursday (20) acquitted all 69 people accused in a massacre case during the 2002 riots in the state where 11 members of a minority community were killed. The case, known as the Naroda…
Indian-American Congressman Shri Thanedar has asked US homeland security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to expand the legal pathways for immigration, including by raising the cap for H-1B visas -- the most sought-after by information technology professionals from India. The H-1B visa is a non-immigrant visa that allows American companies to employ…
A research by the University of Cambridge on Thursday (20) said nearly 90 per cent of Indians are more vulnerable to public health issues, food shortages and increased risks to deaths due to deadly heat waves fuelled by climate change in 2022. The study, published in the 'PLOS Climate' journal…
Twenty-five airports in the country are using 100 per cent green energy while another 121 airports will be made carbon neutral by 2025, Indian civil aviation minister Jyotiraditya Scindia said on Thursday (20). Scindia made the remarks in his virtual address at the two-day EU (European Union)-India aviation summit. He…
In a horrific incident in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, a six-month-old baby born to a teenage gang-rape survivor was left battling for its life after a mob comprising the accused set the family's home on fire after coming out on bail, police sources said. Four persons were…
Two of the 17 Sikhs arrested in California, US, over the weekend from two warring criminal gangs are facing murder charges in several cases in India, while another two are sought in other criminal cases, officials in the US said, stressing that they have prevented a major mass casualty incident…
Apple chief executive officer (CEO) Tim Cook found himself in the middle of another enthusiastic set of admirers and customers on Thursday (20) at the opening of a retail store in New Delhi, the second in India in three days. The 62-year-old, who received a warm welcome during the inauguration…