Ace India batter Virat Kohli has hit the purple patch after a prolonged lean phase and of late, he has been found going for spiritual trips to ashrams in northern India with his wife Anushka Sharma and daughter Vamika in between national assignments. The 34-year-old, who recently went to Vrindavan…
The founder and priest of the Gauri Shankar temple in Brampton in Canada, which was targeted with anti-India graffiti, on Tuesday (31) urged the Indian government to revoke the passports of all those involved in the anti-India activities in Canada. Dhirendra Tripathi, who has been living in Brampton city for…
IndiaMART, one of the largest Indian e-commerce websites, along with four physical marketplaces in the cities of Delhi, Bengaluru, Kolkata, and Mumbai have figured in the latest annual edition of the Notorious Markets List of the US. Released by the US Trade Representative (USTR) on Tuesday (31), the 2022 Notorious…
India's civil aviation sector has "great potential" owing to growing demand from the middle class, higher disposable incomes and favourable demographics, while air travel has rebounded with the lifting of the coronavirus pandemic-related curbs, according to the Economic Survey. The survey for 2022-23, tabled in the country's parliament on Tuesday…
Visakhapatnam, one of India's major coastal tourist destinations, is set to be the capital of the south-eastern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, its chief minister Jagan Mohan Reddy announced on Tuesday (31). He said he will also shift to the new capital "in the months to come". Reddy, who made…
The first high-level dialogue on the Initiative for Critical and Emerging Technologies (iCET) between India's national security advisor (NSA) Ajit Doval and his US counterpart Jake Sullivan can be a "strategic enabler" and has the potential to take the India-US ties to the next level, according to experts. Doval and…
The Economic Survey released by the Indian government a day ahead of the presentation of the national budget on Wednesday (1) has said that the country's economic growth is forecast to be 6.5 per cent in fiscal 2024 compared to seven per cent in the current fiscal. The survey made…
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has signed off on a $4.7 billion (£3.8 billion) support loan package for Bangladesh to help it cope with soaring energy and food costs that have sparked huge protests. Bangladesh and other South Asian countries dependent on fossil fuel imports were hit hard by sharp…
A suicide blast at a mosque inside a police headquarters in Pakistan that killed more than 90 people was a targeted revenge attack, a police chief said Tuesday (31). Between 300 and 400 policemen had gathered for afternoon prayers at the compound's mosque on Monday in the provincial capital Peshawar…
Russia has accused the BBC of "waging an information war" on different fronts - not only against Moscow, but also against other global centres of power pursuing an independent policy, days after the British broadcaster released a controversial series on Indian prime minister Narendra Modi. Russian foreign ministry Spokeswoman Maria…