- Wednesday, March 12, 2025
NEW Indian airline Akasa Air on Friday (22) said it will launch commercial flight operations on August 7. It will be operating its first service on Mumbai-Ahmedabad route using Boeing 737 Max aircraft. In a statement, the carrier said it has opened ticket sales for 28 weekly flights it will…
INDIA extended a total of 37 Lines of Credit (LoCs) worth $14.27 billion (£11.9 billion) to Bangladesh, Maldives, Myanmar, Nepal and Sri Lanka for 162 projects, the government told Lok Sabha on Friday (22). In reply to a question, the country's minister of state for external affairs V Muraleedharan said…
TWITTER reported disappointing results on Friday (22), a miss that the social network attributed to "headwinds" including the uncertainty related to Elon Musk's buyout bid. The firm is locked in a legal battle with the mercurial Tesla boss over his effort to walk away from his $44 billion (£37 billion)…
WHILE the Indian opposition on Friday (22) staged a protest over price rise and other issues in the parliament which is currently in session, the Lok Sabha or the Lower House of the parliament passed the Indian Antarctic Bill, 2022, seeking to extend the application of the country's domestic laws…
AMID her intense contest with former UK chancellor of the exchequer Rishi Sunak for the premiership, British foreign secretary Liz Truss on Thursday (21) said she was against sending her country's troops to the ongoing conflict in Ukraine which Russia invaded in February. Speaking to BBC, the 46-year-old Truss, who…
BRITISH foreign secretary Liz Truss has extended a commanding 28 lead over British-Indian ex-minister Rishi Sunak in the race to be the UK's next Prime Minister, according to the latest YouGov survey. On Thursday (21), Conservative Party members voted to send both Sunak and Truss through to the final stage…
WHILE India celebrated the victory of Droupadi Murmu in the recently held presidential election as she became the country's first-ever tribal head of state, political observers were more curious about the message that this election conveyed: the near-zero unity among the opposition that aims to topple prime minister Narendra Modi…
WHILE India under the prime ministership of Narendra Modi has focused on improving ties with countries in Africa, a major political row has erupted in Mauritius, an island-nation in the Indian Ocean, which has seen the South Asian power landing into the eye of the storm since June. While New…
LIFE in Britain has been thrown out of gear, thanks to intense heat waves. Temperatures in the country which is known to be cold have touched 40 degree Celsius and it has resulted in some sights that are otherwise not common there. For instance, a recent tweet shared by the…
INDIA on Friday (22) confirmed its third case of monkeypox and like the previous two, the latest case has also been found in the southern state of Kerala. Veena George, the state's health minister, confirmed the news. The infected individual was found to be a 35-year-old man who returned to…
