Melbourne: India and Australia on Thursday sealed a raft of landmark pacts spanning civil nuclear energy, maritime security and critical minerals sectors, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Australian counterpart Anthony Albanese reinforced the vital role of the bilateral partnership in ensuring a peaceful Indo-Pacific. Modi held wide-ranging talks with the Australian leader, a…
New Delhi: Asian Development Bank on Thursday lowered India’s GDP growth projection to 6.6 per cent as against 6.9 per cent estimated earlier for the current fiscal on concerns of higher energy prices fuelled by the Middle East crisis. Despite the growth moderation, India still continues to be the fastest-growing major economy in the world….
New Delhi: India is failing to win medals at continental tournaments or qualify for the World Championships and Olympics despite having immense potential because of poor planning and a lack of opportunities to compete against Asia’s top volleyball nations, according to Dronacharya Award-winning coach G E Sridharan. The 72-year-old argued that India continues to play…
New Delhi: Chief Economic Adviser V Anantha Nageswaran on Thursday said the government has done its part by announcing several measures in Budget to support Global Capability Centres (GCCs), and called on industry to invest in skilling, capability development and innovation to address the challenges posed by artificial intelligence. Observing that AI has exposed old…
New Delhi: Huma Qureshi, known for challenging the conventional portrayal of the Hindi film heroine through projects such as “Maharani” and “Gangs of Wasseypur”, hopes that her new film “Baby Do Die Do”, a thriller about a deaf and mute assassin, leads to more such interesting roles being written for women. The actor, who has…
Thiruvananthapuram: As heavy rains continued in parts of Kerala, the IMD on Thursday issued an orange alert in three districts of the state for the day. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) issued an orange alert in the districts of Malappuram, Kozhikode and Wayanad. It also issued a yellow alert in six other districts — Ernakulam,…
New Delhi: Delhi woke up to grey skies, waterlogged roads and uprooted trees as overnight rain continued through Thursday morning, with the India Meteorological Department issuing a ‘red’ alert for the day. Safdarjung, the capital’s base weather station, recorded 72.6 mm of rainfall in the last 24 hours that ended at 8.30 am, the India…
Johannesburg: Several Indian companies have a proven track record in rail network, port modernisation and power systems, and the country could become a partner in the development of infrastructure projects in South Africa, India’s Consul General in Johannesburg, S Koventhan, said on Wednesday. Companies that participated in a two-day Africa Rail Expo expressed optimism about…
New Delhi: Former captain Sourav Ganguly received the perfect gift on his 54th birthday on Wednesday, becoming the latest Indian cricketer to be inducted into the ICC’s Hall of Fame following a decision taken at the global body’s annual conference in Edinburgh. Ganguly’s induction takes the number of Indians in the ICC Hall of Fame…
Dehradun: Uttarakhand on Wednesday became the country’s sixth fully literate state under the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 and the ‘ULLAS’ (Understanding Lifelong Learning for All in Society) programme, officials said. The state achieved the significant milestone after meeting the prescribed adult literacy benchmarks set by the Department of School Education and Literacy under the…
