- Monday, March 03, 2025
Sri Lanka's election commission on Tuesday (7) announced April 25 as the new date for the cash-strapped country's local election. The local body polls scheduled for Thursday (9) were postponed due to a plethora of reasons linked to the country's current economic crisis. A statement from the commission said that…
Here are news related to Indian economy and business in brief for Tuesday, March 7, 2023: Prime minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said RuPay and UPI technologies are India's identity in the world, ANI reported. "In the era of 'Industry 4.0', platforms developed by India are becoming models for the…
The argument that India is going towards a 'Hindu rate of growth' is "ill-conceived, biased and pre-mature" when weighed against the respective data on savings and investments, said the State Bank of India (SBI) Research in its Ecowrap report. The term 'Hindu rate of growth' was coined by economist Raj…
Income-tax surveys at the BBC's offices in New Delhi and Mumbai in February, weeks after the country's Narendra Modi government accused the British broadcaster of running propaganda after it released a two-part documentary series on Modi's role in the riots in Gujarat in 2002, have raised questions over the state…
A bodybuilding competition featuring women in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh turned into a political slugfest in no time after the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the party which rules the states, and the opposition Indian National Congress tore into each other over alleged hurting of Hindu sentiments. The…
Two teenage boys have been found guilty of murdering a 16-year-old Afghan Sikh refugee in London who they thought belonged to a rival gang, according to Scotland Yard. Vanushan Balakrishnan and Ilyas Suleiman -- both 18 -- were convicted for the murder of Rishmeet Singh “in cold blood” on Monday…
The ongoing Test match series between India and Australia have been more in the news because of not any batter or bowler but the surfaces on which the games have been played so far. While all the three matches played so far have been completed inside three days, the third…
They belong to two countries that have been locked in a deadly war for more than a year now. No international initiative has been successful in finding a solution to the crisis after Russia launched its military operation in the western neighbour of Ukraine. Both sides have witnessed losses in…
Ever since Indian National Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, one of India's major opposition faces, has set his foot in the UK and attacked the Narendra Modi government, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has accused him of letting the nation down. Responding to Gandhi's remark in London that democracy in…
The parents of singer Sidhu Moosewala, who was shot dead last year, sat on a protest outside the assembly complex in Chandigarh, the capital of the northern Indian state of Punjab, on Tuesday (7) seeking justice for their son. Speaking to reporters, an emotional Balkaur Singh, the father of Moosewala,…
