- Wednesday, February 26, 2025
RAVI and Prashant Ruia, promoters of Indian multinational conglomerate company Essar Group met with the leadership of Vietnam as they looked for investment opportunities and potential business collaborations in the South-east Asian country, the company said on Sunday (19). Essar Exploration and Production Limited (EEPL) and ENI of Italy already…
ARCELORMITTAL Nippon Steel India Ltd has got approval from the eastern Indian state of Odisha to set up a steel plant worth $13 billion (£9.8 billion), a doubling of investment and capacity from an initial proposal in March, Bloomberg reported. The complex in Kendrapara in eastern Odisha will produce steel…
THE UK is set to get its first-ever purpose-built crematorium for the Hindu community in Buckinghamshire in south-east England after a charity organisation named Anoopam Mission UK won its appeal for setting up the structure close to its temple and community centre. The appeal was granted to Anoopam Mission by…
CONTINUING with his foundation-laying and infrastructural-project-inaugurating spree in the poll-bound northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, prime minister Narendra Modi on Saturday (18) laid the foundation stone of Ganga Expressway in Shahjahanpur with an aim to improve connectivity and economic development across the state. Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath…
ACE India opening batter KL Rahul will be the team’s vice-captain in the upcoming Test series against South Africa starting in Centurion on Boxing Day (26), Asian News International reported citing a source. Rahul was chosen as the Virat Kohli-led squad’s deputy after the original pick, Rohit Sharma, was ruled…
GAJENDRA Singh Shekhawat, the minister of Jal Shakti (water resources) of the Narendra Modi government on Friday (17) said that the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will contest the upcoming assembly elections in the northern state of Punjab in alliance with Captain Amarinder Singh’s newly floated Punjab Lok Congress Party.…
THE International Energy Agency (IEA) on Friday (17) said rising consumption in countries like China, India and the US could raise global demand for coal-fired power to an all-time high. The body made the announcement just more than a month after countries from across the globe met at a global…
THE United States state department has said that there are 66 known Indian-origin fighters affiliated with global terror outfit Islamic State (IS) as of November. The report said this while praising India’s counter-terrorism forces, including the National Investigation Agency, for actively detecting and disrupting transnational and regional terror forces, the…
THE Arora Group has bought Luton Hoo Hotel, Golf & Spa from Elite Hotels for an undisclosed price. The hotel, which is close to Luton Airport, London, has 228 rooms and is spread over 1,000 acres of parklands, an 18-hole championship golf course, two restaurants and spa. It played host…
INDIAN weightlifter Lovepreet Singh on Thursday (16) won silver medal in the men’s 109-kilogram category at the ongoing Commonwealth Weightlifting Championships 2021 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Singh lifted a total of 348 kilograms (161 plus 187) and finished 12th in the World Weightlifting Championships, which was held concurrently in the Uzbek…
