Reuters reported last month that Air India was closing in on a deal for around 500 jets. The order, once finalised, aims to bring Air India into the league of large global airlines and make it an influential client for planners and suppliers, at a time when its domestic market has witnessed a post-Covid travel […]
Harun, chairman of the Economic Zone Authority, said most of the new zones are being set up on unproductive and fallow land, adding that rules do not allow acquisition of land where multiple crops are grown. In Narayanganj, project director Ahmad said most of the land bought for the Japanese economic zone had not previously […]
Lower Tribunal Appeal The CCI ruled in October that Alphabet Inc-owned Google had taken advantage of its dominant position in Android and asked it to lift restrictions on device makers, including those relating to pre-installation of apps and ensuring exclusivity of its searches. . It also fined Google $161 million. Google had approached the Supreme […]
Mayukh Biswas, general secretary of the SFI, the student wing of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), said, “They will not stop the voice of dissent.” Prior to one of those demonstrations at Delhi’s Jamia Millia Islamia University, 13 students were detained amid heavy police deployment. Police said the university accused the students of creating […]
Hundreds of students at Jawaharlal Nehru University watched BBC documentaries on mobile phones and laptops after there was a power failure on the campus on Tuesday, student leader Aishe Ghosh said. The university had threatened disciplinary action if the documentary was screened. “It was clearly the administration which cut off the electricity,” Ghosh said. “We […]
Cow dung protects from radiation, claims Indian court
Qualification is unaffected for the World Cup to be held in India later in the year, however, as the Kiwis have already qualified. But Rohit, who registered his first ODI hundred since January 2020, and Gill went past Virender Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir’s 201-run stand in 2009 to post the biggest opening partnership by any […]
Foreign ministry spokespersons of both countries did not immediately respond to requests for comment on media reports that Zardari had been invited to the SCO foreign ministers’ meeting to be held in Goa. The SCO consists of China, India, Russia, Pakistan and four Central Asian states. According to the Indian Express newspaper, the invitation was […]
Gill and fellow centurion Rohit shared a 212-run stand on Tuesday to complete a 3-0 series clean sweep as India ousted New Zealand from the top ODI team. “He understands his batting, he paces his innings well,” Rohit told reporters after the 90-run win in Indore. “That’s what you want in ODI cricket. You want […]
“Even though the government intends to provide benefits to us by creating these new IDs, their authoritarian behavior towards the people of J&K has made us doubt their intention,” he added. ‘Lack of trust’ Kashmir is claimed in full but is ruled in part by India and Pakistan, which have fought two wars over the […]
king coal Coal was the “king” of fuel in India’s National Capital Region (NCR) after the South Asian country banned petcoke – a polluting, energy-intensive alternative – in 2017, the CSE report showed. It was the primary fuel for about a quarter of all industries in three major clusters in Haryana near New Delhi. Now […]
Ranaut on Tuesday sent a screen-shot from her Instagram account to her Twitter handle @KanganaTeam and said she is “happy to be back on Twitter”. Twitter Inc did not immediately respond to a query from Reuters on the reinstatement of Ranaut’s account. Twitter suspended Ranaut’s account in May 2021 for “repeated violations” of its hateful […]
A residential apartment block collapsed in the northern Indian city of Lucknow on Tuesday and more than two dozen people were feared trapped under the debris, local police officials told Reuters. Indian media reported that at least three people died. The footage showed blocks of bricks and concrete being piled together as police teams cleared […]
India slumped to 293-5 before Hardik Pandya took charge, with a total of 54 off 38 balls, which included three fours and three sixes. Rohit and Gill, who scored a match-winning 208 in the first match of the series, started cautiously and the pair burst onto the scene with fours before India reached 17-0 in […]
Weerasinghe said there has been good progress in talks with Paris Club creditor countries and other creditors. On the domestic front, talks are on with local banks to reduce rates, but restructuring of domestic debt is still uncertain, he added. On a separate note, Weerasinghe said Sri Lanka’s inflation will ease at a sharp pace […]