- Tuesday, March 11, 2025
SRI LANKAN president Ranil Wickremesinghe has said his government's main priorities are to fix the country's ailing economy and end the severe fuel shortage that has exacerbated after the last shipment under the Indian credit line arrived in Colombo in June. Addressing a gathering at his party headquarters on Wednesday…
THE Indian government has said that New Delhi has been playing a lead role in raising the issue of climate finance and its efforts have exposed exaggerated claims made by developed countries that the goal of mobilising $100 billion per year to help the developing countries is nearly met. The…
RILEE Rossouw's unbeaten 96 laid the foundation for South Africa's commanding 58-run win in the second Twenty20 international against England in Cardiff on Thursday (28) as the Proteas bounced back to level a three-match series at 1-1. Rossouw's career-best score at this level was the cornerstone of a total of…
THE Dalai Lama on Thursday (28) asked his followers to be compassionate "despite what China has done to Tibetans", as he visited India's remote Ladakh region. The Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader is in the cold desert region -- which borders China -- on his first visit outside the northern Indian…
TWO pilots have been killed in India after a Soviet-era fighter jet crashed during a training sortie, the air force said, heightening safety concerns after a string of incidents involving the aircraft. The MiG-21 came down on Thursday (28) night in the desert of western Rajasthan state near the city…
HERE are some news in brief related to India's economy and business for Thursday, July 28, 2022: India has overtaken the US as far as the number of users engaged in online transactions, including e-commerce, are concerned. According to a report by the Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI),…
INDIAN prime minister Narendra Modi on Thursday (28) inaugurated the 44th Chess Olympiad, a prestigious event related to the game of brains, in Chennai in the southern state of Tamil Nadu. The prime minister, who arrived in Chennai earlier in the day, said while addressing the inauguration event that the…
FOR a leader of her stature, it was not easy for Mamata Banerjee to take this lying down. And even if she wanted to turn a blind eye to the massive cash scam which has been unearthed in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal which her party Trinamool Congress…
THE auction of 5G spectrum for telephony services will stretch to the fourth day on Friday (29) after 16 rounds of bidding fetched bids worth Rs 1,49,623 crore (£15.48 billion). Ashwini Vaishnaw, the country's communications minister, on Thursday said 16 rounds of bidding have been completed in the first three…
INDIA'S total imports from China increased by nearly 29 per cent in the past five years. Compared to 2017-18 and 2021-22, the annual imports from China rose from $89,714.23 million (£74,047.43 million) to $115,419.96 million (£95,264.17 million), India's minister of state for commerce and industry Anupriya Patel informed Lok Sabha…
