- Tuesday, March 11, 2025
PAKISTAN have withdrawn from the world's biggest international chess tournament in protest at hosts India holding a torch relay for the event through disputed Kashmir, officials said Thursday (28). The 44th Chess Olympiad will see over 1,700 players from 188 nations compete in Chennai in the southern state of Tamil…
THE Indian government informed the parliament on Thursday (28) that there has been little progress on the issue of resuming trade ties with the neighbouring country of Pakistan over the last three years. V Muraleedharan, the minister of state for external affairs, said in a written response to a query…
THE Indian rupee appreciated 26 paise to close at 79.65 (provisional) against the US dollar on Thursday (28), tracking a firm trend in the domestic equities. At the interbank forex market, the local unit opened at 79.80 against the greenback and finally settled at 79.65 (provisional), registering a rise of…
INDIAN prime minister loves interacting with people and even with children. On numerous occasions, the 71-year-old leader has been found enjoying speaking to youngsters and even kids. The world remained witness to another such encounter on Wednesday (27), when an eight-year-old girl, the daughter of a parliamentarian of Modi's Bharatiya…
WITH the race for the next British prime minister becoming intense and the two contenders -- Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss -- trying to make international issues such as China factor to become a part of the contest to show who has a bigger nationalistic vigour, Truss has decided to…
A MAN in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh has found himself in the soup after giving vaccines to as many as 30 students with a single syringe. However, when he was asked about his act, he counter asked saying he was not at fault as he just did…
RUSSIA has welcomed India's decision to set up its first bullion exchange and said the India International Bullion Exchange (IIBX) may soon challenge exchanges located in nations such as the UK, the US and Singapore. Mikhail Glazachev, financial counsellor of the Russian Embassy in India, told this to his country's…
SINGAPORE and the US have emerged as the two leading sourcing nations for Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) equity flows into India in the 2021-22 fiscal, the Narendra Modi government said on Thursday (28). In a statement released the same day, the commerce and industry ministry said among the top five…
AT least 42 people have died and nearly 100 others have been hospitalised in the western Indian state of Gujarat after drinking toxic alcohol, police said on Thursday (28), with authorities ordering a crackdown on bootleggers. Dozens of people became ill earlier this week after drinking methanol -- a poisonous…
A GROUP of junior students studying in a government medical college in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh has accused some of their seniors of subjecting them to ragging. The complainants are MBBS students of the Mahatma Gandhi Medical College in Indore who have moved the anti-ragging helpline of…
