- Wednesday, March 05, 2025
The government is planning to come out with a comprehensive policy for mandatory adoption of Indian Standard Time (IST) nationwide, a senior consumer affairs ministry official said. The purpose is to ensure synchronization of all networks and computers to IST and adoption of IST by Telecom Service Providers, Internet Service…
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), India's elite investigative agency, has filed a new case against Unitech Limited and its former directors in connection with an alleged fraud in the IDBI bank involving an amount of Rs 395 crore (£40.2 million), officials said. Nearly six months after a complaint from…
Yogi Adityanath, the chief minister of the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, on Thursday (5) pitched his state as a safe investment destination and also interacted with prominent personalities from Bollywood, India's Hindi film industry, during his visit to Mumbai, where Maharashtra's opposition parties targeted him over his roadshow.…
An Indian-origin doctor twice resuscitated a fellow passenger on a flight to India after the latter suffered a cardiac arrest and collapsed in the aisle and later said he would remember the experience for the rest of his life. According to a press note, Dr Vishwaraj Vemala, a consultant hepatologist…
Erik ten Hag says he cannot rush the return of Jadon Sancho, admitting there is no timescale on when the winger will return to action for Manchester United. Sancho, a big-money signing from Borussia Dortmund 18 months ago, has not featured for United since playing 52 minutes of a 1-1…
Winds of change have started blowing in Indian cricket ever since the team faced a humiliating 10-wicket loss against England in the semi-final of the T20 World Cup in Australia last year. Speculation is already rife over veterans such as Test captain Rohit Sharma and former captain Virat Kohli being…
Indian prime minister Narendra Modi is "really going out of his way" to work with the Sikh community, both inside and outside India, Indian-American businessman and philanthropist Darshan Singh Dhaliwal has said. Dhaliwal has been selected as one of the 27 recipients of the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman this year. "I…
The Narendra Modi government of India has taken a step towards allowing leading international universities such as Yale, Oxford, and Stanford to establish campuses in the country and award degrees as part of a strategy to overhaul its higher education system, Bloomberg reported. The University Grants Commission (UGC), which regulates…
India is set to deploy a platoon of women peacekeepers in Abyei region of Sudan on Friday (6) as part of the Indian Battalion in the United Nations Interim Security Force (UNISFA). This will be India's largest single unit of women peacekeepers in a United Nations (UN) Mission since it…
With the incident of a passenger urinating on an elderly woman co-passenger on an Air India flight between New York and Delhi last November leading to a widespread outrage, the carrier's chief executive Campbell Wilson has told the employees that Air India crew should report any improper behaviour on aircraft…
