- Sunday, March 09, 2025
The number of poor people in India fell by about 415 million between 2005-06 and 2019-21, a “historic change” and a demonstration that the Sustainable Development Goal target of reducing at least by half the proportion of men, women and children of all ages living in poverty by 2030 is…
The Supreme Court on Saturday (15) suspended the Bombay high court's order acquitting former Delhi University (DU) professor G N Saibaba and others in a Maoist-links case. The top court rejected Saibaba's request to order his release from jail due to his disability and health conditions and put him under…
Russian president Vladimir Putin said Moscow was "doing everything right" in its nearly eight-month invasion of Ukraine despite a string of embarrassing defeats against Kyiv's forces, who will receive $725 million in new US military assistance. Putin's comments Friday came hours after Kremlin-installed officials in the southern Kherson region urged…
Rescuers on Saturday (15) searched for the last miner missing at a coal mine in northern Turkey, where a methane blast the previous day killed at least 40 people in one of the country's worst industrial accidents in years. The blast ripped through the mine near the small coal mining…
The Indian economy is projected to grow at seven per cent in the current financial year despite global headwinds, Indian finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman said in Washington DC on Friday (14). Addressing the Plenary Meeting of the International Monetary and Financial Committee (IMFC) at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) headquarters…
Indian finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday (14) met International Monetary Fund's (IMF) deputy managing director Gita Gopinath during which they discussed current global matters and India's G-20 presidency next year. Sitharaman is currently in Washington DC to attend the annual meeting of the IMF and the World Bank, on…
Indonesia on Saturday (15) banned ingredients linked to the deaths of 70 children in Gambia from cough syrups in the Southeast Asian country as it investigates acute kidney damage that has killed more than 20 children in the capital Jakarta this year. Food and drug regulator BPOM also said it…
For a country as wide and varied as India, its food diversity cannot be overstated, something that celebrity chef Vikas Khanna believes in as he says “India has embraced cultures through their cuisines”. “I think Indian cuisine is so steeped into history, evolution and change. There's no other cuisine which…
Traders in Delhi are hoping for a huge boost to Diwali business this time, to the tune of Rs 1 lakh crore (£10.8 billion), as for the first time in three years they prepare for the festival of lights sans Covid restrictions. "This substantial inflow of funds is expected to…
Automotive technology firm Pi-Square Technologies opened its India tech centre in Bengaluru on Friday (14). Founded in 2015, Pi-Square Technologies is a Michigan-headquartered company specialising in providing design services in Automotive Embedded technologies, IOT, Digital Transformation (IT), and Multimedia Production. Pi-Square currently serves over fifty clients across the globe including…
