- Monday, March 10, 2025
The United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) representative in Pakistan has said that nearly 16 million children have been affected by the devastating floods in the country and at least 3.4 million girls and boys are in need of immediate treatment to survive. Abdullah Fadil, the representative who recently…
China has blocked a proposal by the US and India at the United Nations to blacklist top Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorist Sajid Mir, one of India's most wanted terrorists and the main handler of the deadly 2008 Mumbai attacks, in the third such move by Beijing within four months. It…
Here are news in brief related to Indian economy and business for Saturday, September 17, 2022: The Adani family, through Endeavour Trade and Investment Ltd ("BidCo"), a special purpose vehicle, has successfully completed the acquisition of Ambuja Cements Ltd and ACC Ltd., Asian News International reported. The transaction involved the…
The historic city of Hyderabad on Saturday (17) observed the 74th anniversary of the merger of the erstwhile princely state of Hyderabad to the Indian Union but a clear political polarisation was visible in the city over the celebration of the special day. While K Chandrasekhar Rao, the Telangana Rashtra…
Former England football captain David Beckham said it was "very emotional" to pay his last respects to Queen Elizabeth II on Friday (16) after he queued for hours through the night to file past her coffin. The ex-Manchester United and Real Madrid star stood among the tens of thousands of…
In a development that would concern the economic experts, India's forex reserves have plummeted by more than $80 billion (£69.3 billion) since the outbreak of the war in Ukraine earlier this year, with a decline of over $2 billion (£1.73 billion) in the latest week as the Reserve Bank of…
The mainstream American media on Friday (16) praised Indian prime minister Narendra Modi for telling Russian president Vladimir Putin that this is not the time for war in Ukraine. The Modi-Putin conversation in Uzbekistan's Samarkand, Uzbekistan, on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit was widely carried by…
Indian prime minister Narendra Modi met Russian president Vladimir Putin on Friday (16) on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, where the latter, despite knowing that the Indian leader would turn 72 on Saturday (17), did not wish him. Explaining why he could not wish…
Eight Namibian cheetahs arrived in India Saturday (17), decades after their local extinction, in an ambitious project to reintroduce the spotted big cats that has divided experts on its prospects. Officials say the project is the world's first intercontinental relocation of cheetahs, the planet's fastest land animal. The five females…
A day before Indian prime minister Narendra Modi releases eight cheetahs brought from Namibia in a Madhya Pradesh national park, the Congress said Friday the proposal for ‘Project Cheetah’ was prepared in 2008-09 and approved by the then Manmohan Singh-led UPA government. The opposition party also said that in 2013,…
