- Wednesday, March 12, 2025
PROFESSIONALS visiting Goa will soon be able to work while enjoying the picturesque shoreline as the state government has come up with a concept of co-working spaces on the beaches. The Goa government is going to promote the "culture of #WorkationGoa" through co-working spaces to be created on the beaches,…
ALL eyes were on Sri Lanka politics after the seasoned Ranil Wickremesinghe became the crisis-ravaged island-nation's president on Wednesday (20) and if political sources are to be believed, he is set to pick senior legislator Dinesh Gunawardena as the next prime minister who will succeed him in the post. Wickremesinghe…
THE Rajya Sabha or Upper House of the Indian Parliament on Thursday (21) deferred till July 25 the passage of a bill that seeks to ban funding of weapons of mass destruction so that opposition members can participate in the discussion on the draft law. Bhubaneswar Kalita, who was in…
RAMESH Kumar, a legislator of the Indian National Congress in the southern Indian state of Karnataka, has sparked a controversy by remarking that leaders of the country's grand-old party have made enough money in the name of the Gandhis, who have been leading the party throughout. According to India Today,…
WHILE things are not going too well at the borders and in the commercial space as the recent raids by Indian authorities against some Chinese mobile companies have shown, the Indian Railways has ordered 39,000 wheels for LHB (Linke- Hofmann-Busch) train coaches from Chinese manufacturer Taiyuan since supplies under ongoing…
SHE has come up as a strong contender to become the next prime minister of the UK and the second woman to lead the state within a gap of three years. However, British foreign secretary Liz Truss will also have to deal with her hawk-eyed critics who would dig up…
ITALIAN Prime Minister Mario Draghi resigned Thursday (21) after efforts to bring the country's fractious parties to heel failed, kicking off a snap election campaign which could bring the hard right to power. The internationally respected 74-year-old formally handed his resignation to President Sergio Mattarella, whose role it is to…
ON behalf of partner economies including India, the US state department on Wednesday (20) released a Joint Statement of the 2022 Supply Chain Ministerial Forum, focussing on the global challenges which include the Covid-19 pandemic, wars, conflicts and climate change. "The shocks to global supply chains from pandemics, wars and…
DAYS after the women's innerwear fiasco at a high-level examination centre in the southern Indian state of Kerala caused an outrage, more shocking details have come out in connection with the matter. India's NDTV news channel said in a report that the women examinees, who were asked to take off…
THE Indian rupee recovered from its all-time low of 80.06 to close 20 paise higher at 79.85 (provisional) against the US dollar on Thursday (21) following overall weakness in crude oil prices and fresh foreign fund inflows. At the interbank forex market, the local unit opened lower at 80.03 against…
