- Tuesday, March 11, 2025
AS the race for the post of the British prime minister gets heated up, a distant country has found itself at the centre of all debate. China, which initially pinned hope on Rishi Sunak, one of the two candidates, since as a former chancellor of the exchequer, he had worked…
INDIA's civil regulator Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) on Wednesday (27) ordered SpiceJet, a budget airlines, to operate a maximum of 50 per cent of its flights for eight weeks after several of its planes reported technical malfunction recently. During these eight weeks, the carrier will be subjected to…
AT LEAST 20 people have been killed by lightning strikes across eight districts in the eastern state of Bihar in a span of 24 hours. In the neighbouring state of Uttar Pradesh, 18 people lost their lives in lightning strikes in the past two days, officials said on Tuesday (26).…
A KHADI tricolour hoisted by former Indian prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru in Meerut in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh (then United Provinces) in November 1946 was displayed in public for the first time after 75 years. Over 5,000 people, many of them students, came to see the flag at…
HCL TECHNOLOGIES'S chairperson Roshni Nadar Malhotra has retained her position as the richest woman in India, with a 54 per cent jump in her net worth to Rs 84,330 crore (£8.7 billion) in 2021. Falguni Nayar, who quit her investment banking career to start the beauty focused brand Nykaa around…
A COUNTRY'S economic prowess gets automatically reflected in the field of ammunition and India must focus on boosting research and development as well as manufacturing capability in this area, the country's defence minister Rajnath Singh said on Wednesday (27). "We have come far ahead of those times when a bomb's…
INDIA's Narendra Modi government has no plan to extend the current Foreign Trade Policy, the junior commerce minister of the country has suggested while responding to the parliament during its ongoing monsoon session. Anupriya Patel, the minister of state for commerce and industry, said in a written response to a…
INDIA cranked up Russian oil imports by 4.7 times in April - may, or by more than 400,000 barrels per day (bpd), year-on-year, thanks to a price discount, the Russian central bank said on Tuesday (26). Indian refiners have been snapping up relatively cheap Russian oil, shunned by Western companies…
THE Narendra Modi cabinet has approved a revival package of Rs 1.64 lakh crore (£17 billion) for the government-owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), Ashwini Vaishnaw, the country's minister of communications, said on Wednesday (27). The package will feature three main elements -- aiming at improving the quality of BSNL…
Renowned mental conditioning coach Paddy Upton, who was part of the support staff of India’s 2011 World Cup-winning team, is re-joining the national set-up in the lead up to the T20 World Cup in Australia later this year. Upton, 53, has been roped in on a short-term contract and will…
