• Monday, March 03, 2025

Fans make mad rush as Lionel Messi’s Argentina set to…

Lionel Messi and his Argentina teammates will make a triumphant return in their homeland on Thursday (23) when they play their first match since winning the World Cup in Qatar. More than 1.5 million fans applied for 63,000 available tickets for the match against Central American minnows Panama at the…

WATCH: Days after vandalism, British cop dances with Indian diaspora…

As members of the Indian diaspora assembled outside the Indian high commission building in London to express solidarity against the act of vandalism committed by pro-Khalistan elements at the mission, including pulling down of the Tricolour, an officer of the Met Police was seen dancing with them. A video of…

Six arrested over anti-Modi posters across Delhi; ‘dictatorship at peak’,…

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Wednesday (22) slammed the Narendra Modi government after thousands of posters put up across Delhi targeting prime minister Modi triggered a police crackdown a day before. Thirty six cases were filed related to the incident while six people were arrested two out of whom…

Tit-for-tat diplomacy? After Indian mission attack, barricades outside British high…

In what is believed to be a tit-for-tat move after the Indian high commission in London came under attack from pro-Khalistan supporters who also pulled down the Tricolour, barricades outside the British high commission in Delhi were removed by the local police on Wednesday (22). The police said that the…

Strong tremors felt in north India after 6.6-strong quake hits…

Strong tremors jolted parts of north India, including Delhi-NCR, on Tuesday (21) night as an earthquake of magnitude 6.6 struck the Hindu Kush region in Afghanistan. Panic-stricken people rushed out of buildings as the earthquake struck around 10.20 pm local time and was also felt in Jammu and Kashmir, Haryana,…

India economy & business news in brief for March 21:…

Here are news related to Indian economy and business for Tuesday, March 21, 2023: Prime minister Narendra Modi will on Wednesday (22) inaugurate the new International Telecommunication Union (ITU) area office and innovation centre in India and will unveil 'Bharat 6G Vision Document' and launch 6G R&D Test Bed, ANI…

One-day cricket world cup in India to kick off on…

The 2023 cricket World Cup will kick off on October 5 and continue till November 19 when the final will be played, according to a report on ESPNcricinfo. The report also said that the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has shortlisted around 12 venues for the marquee…

Amplus Solar to set up green hydrogen plants in India’s…

Amplus Solar on Tuesday (21) said it aims to set up 7.5 KPTA-distributed green hydrogen plants in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh with an estimated investment of Rs 1,500 crore (£148.6 million). To materialise its plans, the company has also entered into an agreement with the Andhra Pradesh…

India’s poll-bound Karnataka approves £793m investment from Foxconn unit

Ahead of the upcoming local elections, the southern Indian state of Karnataka has approved an investment worth Rs 80 billion (£793.2 million) in the state by a unit of Taiwan-based electronics manufacturer Foxconn, Reuters reported. The state's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government said in a statement on Monday (20) that…

Sri Lanka to be 1st Asian nation to come under…

Sri Lanka will be the first country in Asia to undergo a governance diagnostic exercise by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) which will assess corruption and governance vulnerabilities in the debt-trapped country, the global lender said on Tuesday (21). The IMF's executive board approved on Monday a 48-month extended arrangement…