- Wednesday, February 26, 2025
INDIAN prime minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday (28) said that the country has emerged as the second biggest start-up hub in the world and this has been achieved mainly with the help of students from the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs). Modi, who was addressing the 54th convocation ceremony of…
BOARD of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) president Sourav Ganguly was on Monday (27) admitted to a hospital in Kolkata in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal after testing positive for Covid-19. The 49-year-old, who has received both the doses of the vaccine, has been travelling extensively and…
THE Indian ministry of home affairs on Monday (27) said the Missionaries of Charity’s (MoC) application for the renewal of Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act (FCRA) registration was refused on Saturday (25) as it failed to meet the eligibility conditions after some adverse inputs were received. In a statement, the ministry…
BRITAIN'S Cairn Energy Plc has dropped lawsuits against the Indian government and its entities in the US and other places. It is also in the final stages of withdrawing similar cases in Paris and the Netherlands to get back about Rs 79 billion (£790 million) collected from it to enforce…
IN a reversal of the prevailing scenario, some second-tier cities in India that are linked with financial capital Mumbai have seen their air passenger traffic surpassing the pre-Covid-19 pandemic numbers. According to a report in the Times of India, such cities include Rajkot, Visakhapatnam, Jabalpur, Gorakhpur, Aurangabad, Kandla, Madurai, Srinagar…
INDIAN cricket supporters had a disappointing Monday (27) as the second day of the first Test match between South Africa and India at the SuperSport Park in Centurion was washed out without a single delivery being bowled because of rain. The visiting team was batting first after winning the toss…
HINDU religious leader Kalicharan Maharaj has faced flak over making offensive remarks against Mahatma Gandhi and lauding his assassin Nathuram Godse. According to one official, the police in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh has registered a first information report (FIR) against Maharaj on allegations of promoting enmity between classes.…
SOUTH AFRICAN leaders of Indian-origin on Monday (27) recalled the role of archbishop emeritus Desmond Tutu in the liberation and reconstruction of South Africa as they mourned his demise on Sunday (26). They called the anti-apartheid icon, who was aged 90, an “international voice of moral conscience”. Tutu won the…
INDIAN conglomerate Tata Group’s takeover of the country’s national carrier Air India is most likely to be delayed by a month as the completion of procedures is taking longer than expected, an official source on Monday (27) said. The Indian government accepted in October the highest bid made by a…
INDIA has reached its 2030 target of making 40 per cent of its installed electricity capacity from non-fossil energy this year itself, prime minister Narendra Modi said on Monday (27) after inaugurating and laying the foundation of various hydropower projects in Mandi district of the northern Indian state of Himachal…
