HERE are business news in brief from India on Friday, June 24, 2022: Akasa Air expects test flight next week, aims commercial start in July: Akasa Air, India’s youngest airline, will conduct a proving flight with the country’s Directorate General of Civil Aviation next week as it looks to kick…
PRINCE Charles told Commonwealth leaders Friday (24) that the choice to become a republic or abandon the queen as head of state was theirs alone, and expressed "personal sorrow" at Britain's legacy of slavery. The British heir to the throne addressed the opening of a Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting…
A PROTEST march of the Students Federation of India (SFI), the students' wing of ruling Communist Party of India (Marxist), against Indian National Congress parliamentarian Rahul Gandhi's office in Wayanad in the southern Indian state of Kerala on Friday (24) turned violent as a group of protestors allegedly entered the…
INDIAN micro-finance firm SATYA MicroCapital Limited has raised a fresh funding of worth $15 million (£12 million) led by its existing Japan-based investor-Gojo & Company Inc. The total amount of fiscal backing is constituted by $8 million (£6.5 million) being allocated to Debt and $7 million (£5.7 million) being allocated…
THE ongoing four-day warm-up match between India and Leicestershire witnessed a moment of camaraderie when seamer Mohammed Shami took the wicket of compatriot Cheteshwar Pujara who was playing for the English county side. Shami, a prolific wicket-taker, gave the visitors a bright start on Thursday (24), the second day of…
BANGLADESH prime minister Sheikh Hasina is expected to visit India in early September for a bilateral visit at the invitation of her Indian counterpart Narendra Modi, her spokesman said on Friday (24), a day after the Indian envoy here called on her and delivered the official invitation letter for a…
THE Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has said that the decision review system (DRS) will not be available for this year’s Ranji Trophy final, which is currently underway between Mumbai and Madhya Pradesh at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru in the southern state of Karnataka. Several…
INDIA might not pursue its decades-old Non-Aligned Movement as religiously in current times but somewhere its foreign policy is still influenced by it. Or to put in another way, the challenges of the current world order force New Delhi to follow the policy of non-alignment softly so that its mission…
WHILE it is the western Indian state of Maharashtra which is witnessing an intense political drama, it is also another state, located thousands of miles away to the north-east, which has also found itself in the thick of things and it is Assam. The state, which is also ruled by…
IN a bizarre incident in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, a man took a snake that bit his wife while taking her to the hospital. The woman was admitted to a district hospital in Unnao, Uttar Pradesh, to undergo treatment. When the husband named Ramendra Yadav was asked…