- Sunday, March 09, 2025
The UK will soon be processing visa applications from India within its standard 15-day period, Alex Ellis, the British high commissioner in India, has said, In a video message, he gave a "quick update" on visas to say, "Namaste, quick update on visas. As you know the combination of an unprecedented…
Senior Indian National Congress parliamentarian Mapanna Mallikarjun Kharge on Wednesday (19) emerged winner of the election which was held on Monday (17) to pick the new president of the century-old party. The 80-year-old defeated Shashi Tharoor, also a parliamentarian, in what was reported to be a lop-sided victory. The latter…
Indian prime minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday (19) laid the foundation stone of a new airbase coming up in the northern part of the western state of Gujarat near India-Pakistan border and said it will emerge as an effective centre for the country's security. Speaking after inaugurating the Defence Expo…
British home secretary Suella Braverman has said the UK is eager to secure a trade deal with India to boost both economies and that Brexit has meant that Britain no longer has a Eurocentric mindset towards trade or visas. Addressing a Diwali event organised by UK-based India Global Forum (IGF)…
Indian authorities have prevented an award-winning photographer from flying to the United States to collect her Pulitzer Prize, the latest of several Kashmiri journalists barred from leaving the country. Sanna Irshad Mattoo was one of four journalists working for Reuters news agency that took home the prestigious award for feature…
Here are news in brief related to Indian economy and business for Tuesday, October 18, 2022: 5G services were rolled out earlier in October in fewer cities in India and more are expected to get them in the coming months, India Today reported. Indian telecom minister Ashwini Vaishnaw has said…
Chief of Pakistan's Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) Mohsin Butt chose to remain silent when confronted with questions from the media in New Delhi on Tuesday (18) about fugitive terrorists Dawood Ibrahim and Hafiz Saeed - suspected to be safely cocooned in his country. Butt, who is in the Indian capital…
The UK government said on Tuesday (18) that it is taking "decisive steps" to stop lucrative Chinese recruitment schemes attempting to headhunt serving and former British military pilots to train the People's Liberation Army (PLA) personnel in China. According to reports, around 30 former UK military pilots are thought to…
India-Pakistan relations in the cricketing fraternity witnessed another low on Tuesday (18) after Jay Shah, the secretary of the Indian cricket board or Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) remarked that India will not travel to Pakistan to play in next year's Asia Cup and that they would…
Indian prime minister Narendra Modi was on Wednesday (19) set to embark on yet another visit to his home state Gujarat which is set to go to polls. It was his third visit in three weeks and like his previous trips, he would lay the foundation stone of several projects…
