- Tuesday, May 21, 2024
WOCKHARDT UK, a subsidiary of India-based pharmaceutical and biotech company Wockhardt Ltd, has been instrumental in making the Covid-19 vaccination drive a big success in the UK. The company’s Wrexham manufacturing facility in North Wales has been contracted by the UK government to manufacture the Oxford/AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine. The sterile…
INDIA’S most populous state, Uttar Pradesh announced a draft law for population control on Saturday (10), as per which those having more than two children will be devoid of any special concessions or benefits. It proposes denying government jobs, promotions, subsidies and the right to contest local elections to anyone…
BRITAIN’S Cairn Energy Plc secured a French court order to seize some 20 Indian state-owned properties in Paris to recover a part of the $1.72 billion (£1.2bn) arbitration award from New Delhi. The sum was awarded to Cairn Energy last year by an international tribunal over a tax dispute with…
THE Delhi high court has sought response from the Centre and the Consulate General of India, New York following a fresh petition that seeks legal recognition to all same-sex marriages under the Foreign Marriage Act and the Special Marriage Act. On Tuesday (6), a bench of chief justice D.N. Patel…
DOWRY payments have been prevalent in India's villages over the past few decades, according to a study conducted by the World Bank. The research encompassed 40, 000 marriages that took place in rural India between 1960 and 2008, and found that dowry was paid in 95 per cent of the…
MOST Indians consider themselves and the country to be religiously tolerant but are against interfaith marriage, a survey conducted by Pew Research Center revealed. The survey report is based on a face-to-face survey of 29,999 Indian adults fielded between late 2019 and early 2020. It covered nearly all Indian states…
THE SUPREME court of India on Tuesday (29) rejected a plea challenging the Delhi high court order, which rejected a public interest litigation (PIL) seeking to halt Central Vista construction during the pandemic. A bench of Justices A M Khanwilkar, Dinesh Maheshwari and Aniruddha Bose said it is not inclined…
AFTER Air India, Cairn Energy PLC plans to target other overseas assets of state-owned firms and banks to recover the amount due from the Indian government. Last month, the British company filed a lawsuit in a US court, demanding the airline to pay a $1.26 billion (£905 million) arbitration award.…
By: Shilpa Sharma INDIAN billionaire Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Industries unveiled plans to invest $10 billion (£7.2bn) in renewable energy over the next three years. Ambani made the announcement on Thursday (24) during a virtual address to shareholders, adding the new business aims to "bridge the green energy divide in India…
By: Shilpa Sharma THE SUPREME court will hear a parole plea filed by A G Perarivalan (47), serving life sentence in the former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi assassination case. The court will hear the plea after three weeks as it took note of the letter for adjournment by the lawyers…
