- Thursday, March 06, 2025
Here are news in brief related to Indian economy and business for Tuesday, December 6, 2022: The Indian rupee has fared relatively well in 2022 in comparison to other emerging market peers, senior World Bank economist Dhruv Sharma said Tuesday after the global financial body revised India's gross domestic product…
India industrialist Anand Mahindra is known for his interesting takes on social media -- either for funny observations or to inspire people. In his latest post, the Mahindra Group's chairman shared a photograph of Hajime Moriyasu, the manager of the Japan football team that played in this year's World Cup…
South African president Cyril Ramaphosa was on Monday (5) given a lifeline by his African National Congress' (ANC) top executives, who decided to reject a report which found that Ramaphosa had flouted his constitutional obligations. Speaking to the media on Monday evening after a day-long deliberation of the ANC’s National…
Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar on Tuesday (6) termed the situation in the border areas of the neighbouring states of Maharashtra and Karnataka as "worrisome", and said time has come to take a stand after seeing what is happening there. Maharashtra ministers Chandrakant Patil and Shambhuraj Desai, appointed…
He started plogging -- jogging and litter picking -- in India in 2018 but did not want to stop there. After leaving the city of Pune to take up a scholarship at the University of Bristol, he has resumed his cleanliness drive in the UK. In the last one year,…
The Indian Railways has decided to enhance the maximum permissible speed of trains to 75 kilometres per hour (kmph) from the present 60 kmph to combat delays during the foggy winter months, the national transporter said on Tuesday (6). This, it said, would be possible due to the presence of…
In a new revelation, it has been learnt that Aftab Amin Poonawalla, the Indian man who has been accused of murdering his live-in partner Shraddha Walkar and chopping her corpse into 35 pieces and disposing them of in various parts of Delhi, watched over 100 hours of the much-publicised defamation…
Indian billionaires Gautam Adani, Shiv Nadar, and Ashok Soota, as well as Malaysian-Indian businessman Brahmal Vasudevan and his lawyer wife Shanthi Kandiah, were named in the 16th edition of Forbes Asia's Heroes of Philanthropy list released on Tuesday (6). The unranked list "highlights leading altruists in the Asia-Pacific region who…
India on Tuesday (6) remembered the 30th anniversary of the demolition of the centuries-old Babri mosque in Ayodhya in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, an event that had changed the course of the country's politics. On the eve of the anniversary, a high alert was announced by the local…
A court in Thiruvananthapuram, the capital of the southern Indian state of Kerala, on Tuesday (6) sentenced two men in their twenties to life imprisonment for raping and murdering Latvian tourist in 2018. The additional district sessions court also asked the convicted duo -- Umesh, 24, and Udayakumar, 28 --…
