- Thursday, February 27, 2025
SOUTH AFRICAN president Cyril Ramaphosa’s hopes to make his country a major producer of mobile phones for Africa were dashed with the closure of a state-of-the-art manufacturing facility owned by an Indian-origin entrepreneur based in Rwanda. In October 2019, the Mara facility in Durban’s Special Economic Zone was launched by…
SHE is no more among singing icon Lata Mangeshkar’s countless fans and admirers but several among them have made efforts in their own capacity to keep her memories alive. One among them is Gaurav Sharma who has kept Mangeshkar’s legacy alive at his home museum in Meerut in the northern…
THE high court of the southern Indian state of Karnataka on Thursday (10) adjourned the hearing of petitions on the ongoing hijab row in several of the state’s educational institutes till Monday (14). A three-judge bench of the court, comprising chief justice Ritu Raj Awasthi and justices Krishna S Dixit…
INDIA and five other South Asian countries are set to benefit from a new funding from the European Union (EU) worth $21.5 million (£15.7 million) which will help them to accelerate climate-smart, inclusive infrastructure investments in the region. The project will be implemented by the US-based International Finance Corporation (IFC),…
OUT-OF-FORM India batter Ajinkya Rahane, whose place in the Test playing XI has come under scrutiny, recently made an explosive claim saying “someone else took the credit” for decisions he took to resurrect Team India during the 2020-21 tour of Australia after the visitors faced a humiliating defeat in the…
SHAKTIKANTA DAS, the governor of India’s central bank – the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) – on Thursday (10) said that private cryptocurrencies are a threat to macroeconomic and financial stability and undermine its ability to deal with challenges on both fronts. Alerting investors, the governor said such assets have…
BRITISH chancellor of the exchequer Rishi Sunak and home secretary Priti Patel joined Prince Charles and his wife Camilla at an event hosted by the British Asian Trust in London, the UK, on Wednesday (9) night. Leading business, political and community leaders from the subcontinent attended the trust’s annual dinner…
UTTAR PRADESH, India’s most populous state with 204 million people and also a key one politically, saw its assembly election kicking off on Thursday (10). Fifty-eight of the state’s 403 constituencies went to polling in the first of the seven phases and the results that will be announced on March…
AT a time when the hijab row involving Muslim women has been escalating in the southern Indian state of Karnataka and its spill-over effect is being seen elsewhere, prime minister Narendra Modi on Thursday (10) said his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led government stands with ‘har majloom’ (every Muslim woman who…
PROMINENT Indian Muslim parliamentarian Asaduddin Owaisi on Wednesday (9) slammed Pakistani foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi after the latter tried to school India over girls’ education in the context of the ongoing hijab row in the southern Indian state of Karnataka. Addressing a rally in the northern state of Uttar…
