- Monday, February 24, 2025
THE family of an Indian student studying in the US, who went missing, has been spending sleepless nights after having received a ransom call demanding nearly a lakh rupees ($1,200/£947). The caller, whose identity was not known, told the boy's parents that he had been kidnapped and that they would…
ON March 14, India's election commission unveiled in detail political donations worth millions of Indian rupees, a month after a five-judge bench of the country's Supreme Court led by Chief Justice DY Chandrachud declared the contentious electoral bond scheme as "unconstitutional". The verdict came following a series of hearings surrounding…
INDIAN prime minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday (20) said the country has come up as the world's third largest startup ecosystem with more than 125,000 startups and 110 unicorns and is charting a roadmap for becoming a developed nation by taking right decisions at the right time. Speaking on the…
A DELEGATION from The Gambia on Tuesday (19) visited the campus of Gujarat University in Ahmedabad in the western Indian state of Gujarat and held a meeting with its vice chancellor over safety measures in the backdrop of an attack on foreign students allegedly on Saturday (16) for offering namaz…
THE Israel-Hamas conflict has created significant repercussions, not only within the region but also globally. Amid the tension, Israel has faced a shortage of labour, particularly in its construction sector, due to the suspension of work permits for Palestinian labourers. To address the challenge, the Jewish state has sought to…
HERE are news in brief on Indian economy and business for Tuesday, March 19, 2024: India's Adani Green Energy on Tuesday acknowledged a US probe into potential anti-corruption law violations by a "third party" but denied any association with it, Reuters reported. Adani's reaction comes days after Bloomberg News said…
VOTERS casting their ballots in the northern Indian state of Punjab in the general elections starting in April will be offered cool sweet drink (locally called 'chhabeel') at polling stations as part of the election officials' initiative to boost turnout in intense summer. Sibin C, the state's chief electoral officer,…
ELECTIONS in the world's largest democracy will kick off on April 19 and continue till June 1 in a seven-phase affair. The Election Commission of India undertakes the herculean task of staging the general election which will potentially see 970 million people casting ballots this year. The first election in…
THE four-month-old nephew of prime minister Rishi Sunak has recently become a multimillionaire, receiving £22 million worth of shares in an Indian tech giant as a gift from his billionaire grandfather. Narayana Murthy, the co-founder of Infosys and father-in-law of Sunak, last week transferred a 0.04 per cent stake in…
LUXURY automaker Audi India is planning to initiate local assembly of electric vehicles (EVs), a move which is aimed at enabling the company to introduce models at a more affordable price point and expand its customer base in the country. Presently, the automaker imports its entire range of electric vehicles,…
