- Tuesday, March 11, 2025
Nepal has signed a pact with an Indian company NHPC to develop a hydroelectric plant in the west of the nation years after a Chinese firm backed out, officials said on Thursday (18). Nepal has opened its rivers, which it sees as having a combined potential to generate more than…
Here are news in brief related to Indian economy and business for Thursday, August 18, 2022: India's largest passenger car maker Maruti Suzuki India on Thursday launched the all-new Alto K10 priced between Rs 4 lakh (£4,202/$5,016) and Rs 5.83 lakh (£6,093/$7,274) (ex-showroom). Launched in September 2000, the Alto brand…
Britain has clinched a new agreement with Pakistan, dubbed a "landmark" deal, to speedily remove Pakistani nationals with no legal right to remain in the UK. The Returns Agreement was signed by home secretary Priti Patel and Pakistan interior secretary Yousaf Naseem Khokhar and the country's high commissioner to the…
The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) has so far collected over 200 damaged, dishevelled or soiled national flags to dispose them as per provisions in the flag code, civic officials said on Thursday (18). A day after Independence Day on August 15, Delhi lieutenant governor V K Saxena had appealed…
Rishi Sunak, the Indian-origin British politician who is running for the post of the country's premier against Liz Truss, on Thursday (18) visited Bhaktivedanta Manor Temple, the UK headquarters of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (Iskcon) along with his entrepreneur wife Akshata Murthy for Janmashtami celebrations. Taking to Twitter,…
In a lopsided affair, India thrashed Zimbabwe by 10 wickets in the first match of the three-match one-day international (ODI) series in Harare on Thursday (18) to go 1-0 up. Chasing a moderate target of 190 in 50 overs after bowling out the hosts for 189 after asking them to…
In what could explode as a major anomaly in the pharmaceutical industry, a body of medical representatives in India told the country's supreme court on Thursday (18) that manufacturers of paracetamol drug 'Dolo', which was in huge demand during the Covid-19 pandemic, spent more than a whopping Rs 1,000 crore…
A man from the eastern Indian state of Bihar, an electrician by profession, allegedly killed his wife because she denied him sex, dumped the body and told the police that she had gone missing. He also filed a missing diary. However, the man's evil plot got caught by the investigators…
More than 97 lakh (9.7 million) domestic passengers travelled by air in July, 7.6 per cent lower than the 1.05 crore (10.5 million) who travelled in June, aviation regulator Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) said on Thursday (18). Overall, 6.69 crore (67 million) people travelled on domestic flights in…
The 24-year-old man charged with the attempted murder of Salman Rushdie has denied being in contact with Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps and said that he acted alone when he stabbed the Mumbai-born author, whom he disliked for being "disingenuous". Hadi Matar, of Fairview in New Jersey, was arrested last week…
