- Sunday, May 19, 2024
BRITAIN’s gross domestic product rose by 2.1 per cent in August, official data shows, much lesser than expected. Finance minister Rishi Sunak will announce later on Friday(9) a plan to support jobs in businesses that may be ordered to close to slow a resurgence of Covid-19 infections. “The sharp slowdown…
CINEWORLD’s decision to close all of its UK cinemas until April will have a negative impact on Indian cinema as its theatres host more than half of all Bollywood screenings in the UK, presenting between 40 and 50 different films a year. The prospect of reduced takings in the UK…
India sees the US as a very close friend and a strong partner critical to transforming the development aspirations of the country’s people into reality, Ambassador Taranjit Singh Sandhu told Indian American leaders in the IT sector. In a roundtable with The IndUS Entrepreneurs (TiE) Global and TiE DC on…
Pakistan on Friday (9) banned the wildly popular video sharing app TikTok, as authorities press their clampdown on “immoral” content. Chinese-owned TikTok which has become a global sensation with its short video clips has a huge user base among young Pakistanis, with some attracting millions of followers. But it has…
HALF of India’s 100 richest saw their net worth grew a collective 14 per cent to $517.5 billion despite the Covid-19 pandemic. India has the second-highest number of Covid cases after the US. The total coronavirus cases rose by 70,496 in the last 24 hours to 6.91 million on Friday(9) morning,…
VETERAN Indian politician Ram Vilas Paswan, a federal minister and an ally of prime minister Narendra Modi’s ruling coalition, died on Thursday(8) after weeks in hospital, his son Chirag Paswan said in a Tweet. He was 74. Paswan, India’s minister for consumer affairs, food and public distribution, was admitted to…
THE Duke of Cambridge on Thursday(8) launched a “prestigious” environmental prize aimed at turning “pessimism into optimism” by rewarding innovative solutions to the planet’s biggest problems. The Earthshot Prize will present five £1 million ($1.3-million) awards each year for the next 10 years, to “incentivise change and help to repair…
US president Donald Trump, who tested positive for coronavirus last week, spoke by phone with British prime minister Boris Johnson, who is a covid survivor, on Wednesday(8). Trump was hospitalised for three nights, after tested positive for the virus, but returned on Monday(5) to the White House, where the virus…
SRI LANKA on Thursday(8) indicted the Greek skipper of a fire-damaged supertanker for causing an oil spill and failing to report the environmental damage to the island’s waters. The Panamanian-registered New Diamond, travelling from Kuwait to India with 270,000 tonnes of crude oil, was passing by Sri Lanka’s east coast…
THE UN has asked Bangladesh to take steps to end child marriage as new report found out that almost half the nation’s female population are married before they were 18. The UN report has urged Bangladesh do more to tackle child marriage if it is to meet its own goal…
