- Wednesday, March 05, 2025
UK state borrowing surged last month on fallout from sky-high inflation, notably government financial help for consumers and businesses struggling to afford soaring energy bills, official data showed Wednesday (21). Public sector net borrowing hit £22 billion ($27 billion) in November, up £13.9 billion from a year earlier, the Office…
Raising concern on the rising Covid-19 cases in neighbouring China, Serum Institute of India (SII) CEO Adar Poonawala on Wednesday (19) asked the people not to panic because of India's "excellent vaccination coverage and track record". He, also at the same time, urged the people to adhere to the guidelines…
Argentina captain Lionel Messi and his teammates had to abandon an open bus and a planned victory parade on the streets of Buenos Aires, the country's capital, on Tuesday (20) as millions of fans gathered to celebrate the La Albiceleste's FIFA World Cup triumph in Qatar on Sunday (18). The…
It started with tennis superstar Novak Djokovic deported from Australia and ended with Lionel Messi lifting the World Cup in Qatar. AFP Sport looks back on 10 of the top sports stories of 2022: Djokovic deported -- Novak Djokovic flew to Melbourne in January hoping to capture a 10th Australian…
Indian health minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Wednesday (21) wrote to Indian National Congress leader and parliamentarian Rahul Gandhi and Ashok Gehlot, the chief minister of the north-western state of Rajasthan, over Covid-19 norms in the opposition party's ongoing 'Bharat Jodo Yatra' (Unite India March) amid growing cases in neighbouring China…
The Indian government has raised over Rs 4.04 lakh crore (£40.2 billion) through disinvestment and strategic sale of public sector enterprises since prime minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party came into power in 2014, the country's finance ministry on Tuesday (20) said. Of this, the largest amount totalling over Rs…
The Indian government on Tuesday (20) approved incentives for Foxconn India and Padget Electronics (cent per cent subsidiary of Dixon Technologies), worth Rs 357.17 crore (£36 million) and Rs 58.29 crore (£5.87 million), respectively, under the production-linked incentive (PLI) scheme for large-scale electronics manufacturing (LSEM), the Hindu BusinessLine reported. The…
Markets and restaurants across Pakistan will have to pull down their shutters by 8 pm while wedding halls will be limited till 10 pm, as the cash-strapped country on Tuesday (20) unveiled a desperate plan to conserve energy. Pakistan is in the midst of an acute energy crisis, high inflation…
Nepal's drug regulatory authority has blacklisted 16 Indian pharmaceutical companies, including Divya Pharmacy which manufactures yoga guru Ramdev's Patanjali products, stating that they failed to comply with the World Health Organisation's (WHO) drug-manufacturing standards. The department of drug administration, in a notice issued on Sunday (18), asked the local agents…
Amid a sudden spurt in Covid-19 cases in Japan, South Korea, Brazil, China and the US, India's Narendra Modi government on Tuesday (20) urged all states and Union territories (UTs) of the country to gear up the whole genome sequencing of positive samples to keep track of emerging variants. In…
