- Monday, March 10, 2025
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping will come face-to-face on Friday for the first time since deadly border clashes in 2020 frayed ties between the Asian rivals. Modi will fly to the Uzbek city of Samarkand on Thursday for a summit of the regional security group…
India does not plan to provide fresh financial support to Sri Lanka on top of the nearly $4 billion (£3.48 billion) it has extended this year, two sources told Reuters, as the island's battered economy starts to stabilise after a preliminary loan agreement with the IMF. India has been the…
The low participation of women in India's labour force is largely due to gender discrimination in terms of wages and opportunities, a report by charity organisation Oxfam said on Wednesday (14). To close the gap in women's labour participation, the Indian government would have to offer incentives for better pay,…
Tata Group-owned Air India on Thursday (15) targeted a share of at least 30 per cent of the domestic market over the next five years as it looks to rebuild its reputation after years of losses at the former state-run carrier. The autos-to-steel conglomerate, which completed its purchase of Air…
India observes Engineer's Day on September 15 every year to honour its renowned civil engineer Mokshagundam Vishveshwaraya (1860-1962) who was born on this day along with other engineers of the country. On this day, work and accomplishments of engineers are recalled and they are motivated to raise the bar further.…
Indian prime minister Narendra Modi on Thursday (15) said he will discuss regional as well as global issues and expansion of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) during the summit which kicked off in Samarkand in Uzbekistan, one of the grouping's members, the same day. In a departure statement, the prime…
It seems Gujarat's success in bagging a $20-billion (£16.7 billion) Vedanta-Foxconn project over neighbouring Maharashtra, India's richest state, is snowballing into a major row. After the opposition in the state which is ruled by Eknath Shinde-led government backed by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) blamed the authorities of missing the…
A group of the Indian community, the India Club, in Tashkent on Thursday (15) sent a gift to prime minister Narendra Modi as a mark of respect to him, ahead of his arrival in Uzbekistan to attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit. An Uzbek wall carpet painted with a…
Indian National Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday (15) attacked the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party over the alleged kidnapping and murder of two Dalit girls in Uttar Pradesh's Lakhimpur Kheri, saying women's security cannot be expected from those facilitating the release of rapists. The two teenage sisters were found hanging…
A specially customised B747 jumbo jet has arrived in Windhoek, the Namibian capital, to bring eight cheetahs to India's Kuno National Park in Madhya Pradesh where they will be re-introduced after the wild cats faced extinction in the 1950s. "A special bird touches down in the Land of the Brave…
