- Wednesday, March 12, 2025
INDIA and Namibia on Wednesday (20) signed a crucial memorandum of understanding (MoU) for the reintroduction of cheetahs, declared extinct in the country in 1952. A senior environment ministry official said the first batch comprising four male and as many female cheetahs will arrive from Namibia in August. "Talks are…
ON track to become the world's most populous nation next year, India is always witness to crowds jostling everywhere. There are many occasions when people even put themselves in danger while trying to commit a daring act. Recently, a video went viral on Twitter that showed yet another occasion when…
INDIAN prime minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday (20) interacted with the country's athletes who are set to participate in the upcoming Commonwealth Games (CWG) in Birmingham, the UK, starting July 28. Modi, who has a knack of encouraging Indian sportspersons before and after they compete at the international level, told…
SIX-TIME prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe was elected as crisis-wracked Sri Lanka's new president by the country's parliament Wednesday (20), with the backing of the party of the ex-leader -- who fled abroad after his palace was stormed by protesters. Official results showed Wickremesinghe polled 134 votes in a three-cornered parliamentary…
HERE are some news in brief related to Indian economy and business for Tuesday, July 19, 2022: India attracted $343.64 million (£286 million) foreign direct investment (FDI) equity inflow in the research and development (R&D) sector during the calendar year 2021, which is 516 per cent more when compared to…
THE Supreme Court of India on Tuesday (19) granted protection to suspended Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) spokesperson Nupur Sharma from arrest in multiple FIRs (first information reports). The top court was hearing a plea moved by her seeking a stay on her possible arrest and clubbing nine cases filed against…
INDIAN business tycoon has overtaken Microsoft founder Bill Gates to become the fourth richest on the Forbes list after the American entrepreneur said last week that he would donate $20 billion (£16.6 billion) of his wealth to his non-profit organisation -- Bill & Melinda Gates. In a blog, Gates, 66,…
RUSSIAN ambassador to London Andrey Kelin on Tuesday (19) said Liz Truss, the foreign secretary of the UK, doesn't listen to her opponents and hence, she is not able to maintain a constructive dialogue at the top level, Russia's state-run TASS news agency said. Kelin drew attention to Truss's words…
INDIAN news channel NDTV has said in an exclusive report that a Chinese village, set up about nine kilometres east of the Doklam plateau where troops from India and China were locked in a face-off for 73 days in 2017, is now fully occupied with people and cars parked at…
A MAN in the northern Indian state of Punjab aspired to get sympathy from the law-keepers after he was allegedly beaten up by a man for sending "I like you' message to his wife. The man then sought the police's help saying he was worried about his safety. But what…
