- Tuesday, March 04, 2025
Indian-American tech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy has launched his 2024 presidential bid with a promise to "put merit back" and end dependence on China, becoming the second community member to enter the Republican Party's presidential primary after Nikki Haley. Ramaswamy, 37, whose parents migrated to the US from the southern Indian…
Delhi's ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Wednesday (22) won the city's mayoral elections and its candidate Shelly Oberoi became the new mayor of the capital. Oberoi, who has been involved with the AAP since 2014, is a former professor of Delhi University who won the Delhi civic body poll…
A leading weather scientist and geological expert has warned that the Indian tectonic plate is moving about 5 centimetres (cm) every year, leading to accumulation of stress along the Himalayas and increasing the possibility of major seismic events -- earthquakes -- in the coming days. Speaking to Asian News International…
President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday (21) said Russia is developing a North-South Transport Corridor, which will open up new routes for business cooperation with India, Iran and Pakistan, as well as west Asian countries. Putin also said Russia will expand its international economic connections, as well as build new supply…
Here are news in brief related to Indian economy and business for Tuesday, February 21, 2023: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Tuesday said travellers from G-20 countries arriving at the airports in the three Indian cities of Bengaluru, Mumbai and New Delhi can get Prepaid Payment Instruments wallets…
With KL Rahul failing to make use of his fast slipping lifeline in Test cricket by scoring not many runs, the mercury is only heading north in India's cricketing fraternity. Former India pacer Venkatesh Prasad, who hails from the southern state of Karnataka, which is also Rahul's home state, has…
The Indian income-tax department on Tuesday (21) conducted searches at multiple premises linked to packaging major Uflex as part of an investigation against the company for alleged tax evasion, officials said. Around 60-70 premises, including the Noida-based company headquarters, in Delhi, UP, Jammu and Kashmir, Gujarat, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu…
A senior Bangladesh minister on Tuesday (21) exhorted the United Nations to formally adopt Bangla as one of its official languages, on the day when the country celebrated the Language Martyrs Day to commemorate the pioneers of the Bengali language movement. The UN has six official languages -- English, French,…
A paramedic leaving her 18-month twins behind to serve the call of duty, officials processing hundreds of documents to prepare more than 140 passports overnight and rescuers not being to able to take a bath for 10 days, the National Disaster Relief Force's (NDRF) mission in quake-hit Turkey was full…
Indians are spending nearly $1 billion (£826.3 million) every month on foreign travel which is significantly more than the pre-Covid levels, reveals Reserve Bank of India (RBI) data on outward remittances. During the April-December period of 2022-23, the outward remittances under the Liberalised Remittance Scheme (LRS) for resident individuals towards…
