- Thursday, February 27, 2025
FORMER Indian finance minister Yashwant Sinha, who had worked under the prime ministership of Atal Behari Vajpayee in the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) but quit it later to join the Trinamool Congress (TMC), has been unanimously chosen by the opposition parties as their candidate for the July 18 presidential election.…
MOST of the growth in the Indian international passenger market has been taken up by the airlines based out of the Gulf region and the Lufthansa Group appreciates the Indian government's idea to make Air India a strong player to regain that market share, its CEO Carsten Spohr has said.…
IT is not easy for an airline to operate in India and if the Tata Group cannot make Air India work, no one else in the country will be able to do so, Emirates President Tim Clark has said. “Air India should be as big as United Airlines. It should…
POLITICS in Maharashtra, one of India’s big states, has taken an uncertain twist as Eknath Shinde, one of the state government’s cabinet ministers and a senior leader of the Shiv Sena, was found decamping in Surat in neighbouring Gujarat with several state legislators of the party. Is this an ominous…
INDIAN defence minister Rajnath Singh and his visiting Australian counterpart Richard Marles will explore new initiatives to further expand bilateral defence engagements in their talks on Wednesday (22). The Indian defence ministry said the two ministers will also exchange views on regional and global issues of shared interest. It said…
GO FIRST on Tuesday (21) said it will resume scheduled direct flights between Kashmir and Sharjah by the end of June. "The airline has recently received the bilateral rights to operate five flights per week on the Srinagar-Sharjah-Srinagar route and the final approval is awaited," the airline said in a…
THE Indian police have arrested three men accused of murdering hip-hop star Sidhu Moose Wala, seizing a cache of weaponry including a grenade launcher from the suspects. Moose Wala -- also known by his birth name Shubhdeep Singh Sidhu -- was shot dead in his car in the northern state…
INDIAN prime minister Narendra Modi performed Yoga along with thousands of participants at a mass demonstration in the backdrop of the iconic Mysuru Palace in Mysuru in the southern state of Karnataka on Tuesday (21) and said the physical fitness regime was forming a basis for cooperation among countries, and…
THE Vendanta Group led by Anil Agarwal has decided to sell the Sterlite Copper smelting plant in Thoothukudi in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu after facing several hurdles – legal and political – in reopening it. According to a report in The Hindu Business Line, the company has…
AMID controversy over the discrimination against pregnant women in joining service, Indian Bank on Monday (20) said it has not made any changes to the existing guidelines and no female candidate has been denied employment. "In some sections of the media, it has been interpreted that bank has framed new…
