- Wednesday, March 12, 2025
THE Narendra Modi government on Thursday (14) rushed a high-level team to the southern state of Kerala after the country's first case of monkey pox was confirmed there. State health minister Veena George said the man who tested positive for the disease recently returned from the United Arab Emirates. He…
BRITISH telecom major BT will hire 2,800 new employees in the UK and India while eyeing reduction in reliance on sub-contracted labour. The company is also planning to grow its in-house digital talent staff members to 6,300 by April 2024 from 3,500 at the beginning of the financial year, UK's…
A NEW 'Quad' has come up in international relations and this time, India and the US have been joined by Israel and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). On Thursday (14), the heads of the government of the four nations held the grouping's first summit virtually and during the talks, it…
HATE speech targeting the Hindu community has been growing across various social media platforms, a report uploaded this week by researchers at the Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI) at the Rutgers University in New Jersey, the US, has said. The authors of the report analysed the hate messages and among…
RUSSIA may emerge in July as the largest oil exporter to India besides China to go past its closest competitor Iraq, according to a report cited by the country's state-run news agency TASS. "As for India, the increase (in June - TASS) in supplies compared to May amounted to almost…
HERE are some news in brief related to Indian economy and business for Thursday, July 14, 2022: India's merchandise exports in June grew by 23.52 per cent to $40.13 billion (£34 billion), while the trade deficit ballooned to a record of $26.18 billion, according to the government data released on…
WHILE speculation is rife over the expansion of the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) grouping, Russian presidential spokesperson Dmitry Peskov on Thursday (14) said even if the bloc's membership expanded, it will not become an alternative to the Group of 20 and that the two bodies complement each…
FOUR-NATION grouping 'I2U2' has established a positive agenda and its framework is a good model for practical cooperation in the face of increasing global uncertainties, Indian prime minister Narendra Modi said on Thursday (14) at the first virtual summit of the coalition. With US president Joe Biden, Israeli prime minister…
INDIAN oil-marketing companies such as Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd, Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd and Indian Oil Corporation Ltd are not exactly complaining about the financial devastation that the southern neighbour of Sri Lanka is facing, thanks to a rise in demand of aviation turbine fuel (ATF) at airports in India's…
WHILE the world watches political developments in the UK, a country which has now seen three prime ministers since the Brexit referendum in 2016 and is waiting for the fourth to take over in September, noted Indian journalist Vir Sanghvi has praised the country saying the race for the new…
