London: British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has welcomed India’s budget carrier IndiGo’s multi-billion-dollar order of 500 Airbus aircraft as a major win for the UK aerospace sector, which will support thousands of jobs and economic growth of the country. IndiGo, India’s largest airline by market share, and Airbus, one of the largest commercial aerospace companies…
Hyderabad: Lloyds Banking Group, one of the UK’s largest financial services groups, on Wednesday announced its decision to set up a new technology centre here. The Group, which operates the UK’s largest digital bank and has over 20 million digitally active users, plans to further expand its digital capability with the opening of the new…
New Delhi: Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Tuesday accused the central government of indulging in “dirty politics” by “denying” the supply of rice to the state for the implementation of a poll-promise of free distribution of the cereal to the poor. Siddaramaiah, who has just completed one month as chief minister in his second tenure,…
New Delhi: The NIA on Wednesday said it has arrested a key associate of jailed gangster Lawrence Bishnoi for his alleged involvement in harbouring members of a terror syndicate involved in an RPG attack on the Punjab Police intelligence headquarters last year. Accused Vikas Singh, a resident of Uttar Pradesh’s Lucknow, had provided shelter to Deepak…
New Delhi: Yoga was the mantra and ‘asanas’ the discipline on Wednesday as millions across the globe and distant corners of India stretched for the skies and dived for their toes, breathed in and out – mindfully – and twisted and turned to celebrate the International Day of Yoga. The day began with Prime Minister…
New York: Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led Yoga celebration at the UN headquarters here on Wednesday created a Guinness World Record for the participation of people of most nationalities. Modi, who is here on the first leg of his maiden state visit to the US at the invitation of President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden,…
New Delhi: Congress Parliamentary Party chairperson Sonia Gandhi on Wednesday issued an appeal for peace in violence-hit Manipur and said the unprecedented violence that has devastated the lives of people of the state has left a deep wound on the nation’s conscience. In a video message shared by the Congress on social media, she expressed…
Beroun: Diksha Dagar will carry her fine form into the Tipsport Czech Ladies Open as the Ladies European Tour is set for another action-packed week at the Royal Beroun Golf Club. Diksha, who was third last week, after sharing the lead at one stage in the final round, has risen to 22nd on the Race…
New Delhi: India’s top doubles player Rohan Bopanna on Wednesday revealed that he will bring curtains down on his Davis Cup career when the country hosts Morocco in September but the Karnataka player won’t be able to play his farewell match in his home state, as desired by him, since AITA has already awarded the…
New Delhi: Accusing the Modi government of being “anti-poor”, the Congress on Wednesday said the Centre discontinued the sale of foodgrains from the central pool under the Open Market Sale Scheme (OMSS) to state governments to “scuttle” the Karnataka government’s Anna Bhagya scheme. The Anna Bhagya scheme, one of the five pre-poll guarantees of the…
