Colombo: The renewable energy project to generate 500 MW in Sri Lanka’s north and eastern regions undertaken by India’s Adani Group will be completed by December next year, Energy Minister Kanchana Wijesekara has said. Sharing the progress of the project, Wijesekara on Monday wrote on Twitter, “Progress of the 500 MW Renewable Energy Project in…
Lahore: Pakistan’s former prime minister Imran Khan said on Tuesday that the attack on military installations in the country last month following his arrest was all “pre-planned” to launch a crackdown against his party with “mind-boggling precision”. Khan, 70, in a series of tweets on Tuesday, lambasted the ruling alliance, a day after the National…
New Delhi: Handmade rugs maker Jaipur Rugs is embarking on a global expansion with plans to establish presence in Asia Pacific and Europe, targetting a total of 35 stores in the next five years, according to company Director Yogesh Chaudhary. The company, which on Tuesday opened its latest store in Dubai, is aiming to reach around…
New Delhi: The Indian labour market is indicating positive sentiments for the July-September quarter of this year and businesses in the IT industry continue to report the brightest hiring outlook, a survey said on Tuesday. According to the ManpowerGroup Employment Outlook Survey of nearly 3,020 employers, the labour market is indicating positive sentiments in the third…
New Delhi: Billionaire Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries Ltd climbed eight spots to the 45th rank, the highest for an Indian company on Forbes’ latest Global 2000 list of public companies worldwide. The Global 2000 ranks the largest companies in the world using four metrics: sales, profits, assets, and market value, Forbes said while releasing the 2023…
Kochi: Irked over the cases lodged against its senior leaders, including the KPCC president, the Congress in Kerala on Tuesday accused the ruling CPI(M) and Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan of trying to ‘divert attention’ from the various allegations against him and intimidate the opposition by such moves. Leader of Opposition (LoP) in the state assembly V…
Chennai: Relationship between the AIADMK and the Tamil Nadu BJP appears to be on the rocks owing to BJP chief K Annamalai’s alleged remark on former chief minister J Jayalalithaa. An irate AIADMK general secretary K Palaniswami on Tuesday lashed out at Annamalai for the latter’s “irresponsible and immature” remark. The BJP state president had…
New Delhi: The Congress on Tuesday intensified its attack on the Centre over the alleged data breach on CoWIN platform and accused it of not being able to protect the personal details of crores of people. Asserting that the CoWIN portal was completely safe with adequate safeguards for data privacy, the government has dismissed as “mischievous”…
New Delhi: The Congress on Tuesday attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the ‘Rozgar Mela’ events, saying this “entire tamasha” is giving the identity of “job destroyers” to the BJP which is now resorting to “desperate gimmicks” to manage the headlines. The Opposition party’s attack came after Modi addressed the newly-recruited government employees after distributing…
New Delhi: The BJP’s IT department head Amit Malviya Tuesday came down heavily on former Twitter chief executive officer Jack Dorsey, saying the social media company was in violation of laws between 2020-2022 when he was at the helm of affairs. Malviya’s counteroffensive through a lengthy Twitter post after Dorsey claimed the Indian government threatened…
