- Saturday, March 01, 2025
New York City mayor Eric Adams has said he wants to encourage the Indian community to participate in the political landscape as he underscored the importance of the diaspora's contribution and role towards the prosperity of the city. A former police officer, Adams addressed chief executives of leading Indian companies…
In what could revive the haunting issue of corruption in cricket, India pacer Mohammed Siraj had reported a "corrupt approach" to the Board of Control for Cricket in India's (BCCI) anti-corruption unit (ACU) from an unknown person, who sought "inside news" about his team before the arrival of the Australian…
For those in the southern Indian city of Chennai who regularly head for Puducherry (a former French colony in the south, also called Pondicherry) to enjoy sea, sun and chilled beer, there is yet another reason to make them excited. Catamaran Brewing Co, the first microbrewery of Puducherry, is set…
Apple chief executive officer (CEO) Tim Cook on Wednesday (19) met Indian prime minister Narendra Modi on the eve of the launch of the US multinational company's store in New Delhi, its second in the country after the one inaugurated in Mumbai on Tuesday (18). During the meeting, Cook underscored…
At 91, retirement is nowhere in the radar of Shamanur Shivashankarappa as he prepares for the May 10 assembly elections in the southern Indian state of Karnataka, even mocking himself as a "galloping horse" in the electoral arena. Indian National Congress's Shivashankarappa, the state's oldest member of the legislative assembly…
In a new estimates release that would raise concern, UNICEF (United Nations Children's Fund) has said that South Asia is home to the most number of child brides globally as growing financial pressure and closure of schools due to the Covid-19 pandemic have forced families to marry off their young…
China on Wednesday (19) downplayed its southern neighbour India overtaking it as the world's most populous nation saying it still has a "quality" workforce of nearly 900 million people to give a strong impetus for development. India surpassed China to become the world's most populous country with 1.4286 billion people,…
Nepali president Ram Chandra Paudel, who took charge in March, was on Wednesday (19) flown to New Delhi in India for treatment for problems related to chest and abdomen at a premier All India Institute for Medical Sciences, officials said. Vice president Ram Sahaya Yadav will stand in for Paudel…
India captain Harmanpreet Kaur has become the first cricketer from the country to be named as one of Wisden's five Cricketers of the Year. The 34-year-old batter, who recently led Mumbai Indians to lift the crown in the inaugural Women's Premier League, has scored more than 6,000 international runs, most…
The Indian government on Wednesday (19) approved the National Quantum Mission to nurture and scale up scientific and industrial research and development in quantum technology. The mission involves a cost to Rs 6,003.65 crore (£588.5 million) from 2023-24 to 2030-31. The National Quantum Mission (NQM), approved at a meeting of…
