Colombo: Sri Lanka on Friday awarded the construction of three solar and wind hybrid power generation facilities to an Indian company after scrapping a tender won by a Chinese firm. New Delhi has long been concerned about growing Chinese influence in the island nation, which sits near key global shipping lanes and which India considers…
New Delhi: Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) on Friday paid a dividend of Rs 2,441 crore to the government. “Smt @nsitharaman receives a dividend cheque of Rs 2,441.44 crore from Shri Siddhartha Mohanty, Chairman – Life Insurance Corporation of India (@LICIndiaForever),” Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s Office said in a post on X. The dividend…
New Delhi: India’s economy grew by better-than-expected 8.4 per cent in the final three months of 2023 – the fastest pace in one-and-half years, fortifying Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s record of providing a world-beating growth rate ahead of general elections. The growth rate in October-December was higher than 7.6 per cent in the previous three…
Tiruppur: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said the constituents of INDIA bloc have accepted defeat, but intend to loot Tamil Nadu. Addressing the valedictory of BJP state unit President K Annamalai’s state-wide yatra here, Modi took on the opposition and said that during the last 10 years, the Centre has given more funds to…
Chandigarh/Lucknow: Farmers took out tractor rallies at several places in Punjab, Haryana and western Uttar Pradesh and burnt effigies, demanding the agriculture sector be taken out of the WTO agreement. In Uttar Pradesh, the rallies led to disruption in traffic at many places and farmers also burnt effigies representing the World Trade Organisation (WTO), which…
Ranchi: India unearthed a fresh pace talent in debutant Akash Deep but veteran Joe Root single-handedly kept England afloat with a tenacious hundred that shunned ‘Bazball’ for a more conservative approach as the visitors hobbled to 302 for 7 on the opening day of the fourth Test here on Friday. At stumps, the 33-year-old Root…
Maharajganj (UP): Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday said under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s leadership, India has moved up to the fifth position from the 10th spot in the world in terms of economy. “In the next year and a half, we will be at the third position,” she said, adding that the standard…
Ahmedabad: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday gave the target of making GCMMF, which owns Amul brand, the number one dairy company in the world from its current eighth position. The PM was speaking at the golden jubilee celebration of the Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation (GCMMF), which markets its products under the brand ‘Amul’,…
New Delhi: The BJP’s national convention on Sunday passed a resolution on the Ram temple in Ayodhya, asserting that this heralds the establishment of “Ram Rajya” in India for the next 1,000 years. “The construction of a grand and divine temple of Lord Shri Ram at his birthplace in the ancient holy city of Ayodhya…
Panaji: The World Whiskies Awards is one of the world’s most important whisky competitions, held every year in England, and featuring all of the world’s leading whisky brands. The competition comprises a panel of judges selecting winners for each category, following months-long blind tastings of approximately 6,000 different types of whiskies from the world’s top…
