- Sunday, May 19, 2024
THE national vice-president of prime minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is likely to returning to the Trinamool Congress headed by West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee, local media reported on Friday (11). The final decision regarding Mukul Roy's rejoining will only be taken after his meeting with the TMC top brass in Kolkata, reports…
INDIAN government relaxed rules last month to potentially allow third-party apps to offer vaccine bookings and has taken back control of procurement from states following delays and shortages. It also faced initial problems with its own vaccine booking platform. Paytm, Infosys and MakeMyTrip are among companies seeking approval to provide…
INDIA is close to agreeing to grant foreign Covid-19 vaccine makers such as Pfizer Inc protection against legal liability so that it can use their shots in an immunisation campaign that is facing acute shortages, three government sources told Reuters. "Indemnity will be granted," said one of the sources. "If…
INDIA on Friday (11) reported 91,702 new Covid-19 infections over the past 24 hours, and 3,403 daily deaths from the coronavirus. The South Asian country's total Covid-19 case load now stands at 29.3 million, while total fatalities are at 363,079, according to data from the health ministry. India's daily Covid…
THERE were more than 200 Australian children stuck in India without their parents, up from 173 last month, the latest Senate estimates hearings have revealed. While there has been attention given to Australians stranded overseas, much of this has related to adults. According to the latest figures, some 35,128 Australians overseas…
THE Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Bangalore has been ranked the top B-school in India for the continuous third time, according to the latest rankings. The 18th edition of the world rankings by London-based Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) have included three Indian institutes-Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay, IIT Delhi and Indian…
INDIA’s 'queen of mangoes' is getting huge demand from across the country which pushed the price of the fruit to about Rs 1,500 (£15) each for a typical 5kg example, reported The Times. Ideal weather and sustained demand are driving the prices up, the report added. Named after a Mughal empress,…
BRITISH INDIAN industrialist Lord Swraj Paul has announced plans to set up a 350,000 tonne per year high speed steel and sprinkler pipe mill in Texas. The project will be carried out through his Caparo Group's US-based subsidiary, Bull Moose Tube (BMT), in partnership with Germany-based SMS Group for design,…
TRIBUTES have been paid to members of a family who were killed in what police believe was a hate crime attack in Canada on Sunday (6). Dubbed a "terrorist" act by prime minister Justin Trudeau, the attack came out of the blue as the Afzaal family, taking one of the…
RESCUE workers in Mumbai frantically searched for survivors beneath the rubble on the morning after a building collapse killed at least 11 people, including eight children, following the first downpour of the monsoon season. Resident Mohammed Rafiq Siddiqui said he had lost nine family members when a four-story tenement block…
