- Wednesday, February 26, 2025
FINTECH firm Ribbon Plc will launch a digital financial services app to offer hyper-personalised multi-currency wallets to NRIs as well as residents of India, the company said in a statement. The carbon-neutral app will meet the growing need for a single platform that’s an aggregate of multiple financial services. According…
NIMISHA MADHVANI has been appointed Uganda’s high commissioner to the United Kingdom. Her appointment comes at a time when the Ugandan Asian diaspora is celebrating the 50th anniversary of their expulsion by the Idi Amin regime in 1972. Nimisha is the daughter of the late East African industrialist Jayantbhai Muljibhai…
INDIAN prime minister Narendra Modi on Friday (17) met several members of parliament (MPs) of his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) from the poll-bound northern state of Uttar Pradesh over breakfast. Sources said that he discussed various “non-political” issues with the lawmakers and advised them to engage more with party workers…
DEFENDING world champion PV Sindhu on Friday (17) crashed out of the BWF World Championships 2021 after losing to Taiwan’s Tai Tzu-wing in straight games in the quarter finals in Huelva, Spain. Sindhu lost 17-21, 13-21 in a clash which lasted for 42 minutes. ALSO READ: PV Sindhu to contest…
FRENCH defence minister Florence Parly, who visited India on Friday (17), said her country is willing to give more Rafale fighter planes to the Asian nation. Responding to a query in New Delhi, she said, “France is ready to answer any additional needs or request that can be made by…
OLYMPIC bronze-winners India on Friday (17) registered a thumping 3-1 win over arch-rivals Pakistan in the Asian Champions Trophy 2021 in Dhaka, Bangladesh. This was India’s second win in three games and they are now leading the five-team points table with seven points. India, who drew South Korea 2-2 in…
INDIAN group captain Varun Singh, who was the only survivor of the December 8 military helicopter crash, succumbed to his injuries after seven days on Wednesday (15) and was given a moving send-off in his hometown Bhopal in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh on Friday (17). India’s first…
INDIA'S Supreme Court Collegium has decided against recommending the name of justice Pushpa V Genediwala as a permanent judge of the Bombay High Court after two of her rulings were closely scrutinised due to a controversial interpretation of sexual assault under the Prevention of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act,…
FORMER Indian National Congress president Rahul Gandhi will be on a day-long visit to Amethi in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh on Saturday (18). Her sister and party’s national general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, who is leading the Congress ahead of the crucial assembly elections in the state…
INDIA'S northern neighbour of Bhutan on Friday (17) conferred its highest civilian award Ngadag Pel gi Khorlo on prime minister Narendra Modi. “Overjoyed to hear His Majesty pronounce Your Excellency Modiji's Narendra Modi name for the highest civilian decoration, Ngadag Pel gi Khorlo,” the prime minister’s office of Bhutan said…
