New Delhi: The government should consider lowering TCS on overseas tour packages and allow foreign cruise vessels to operate on Indian waters besides other steps to increase outbound tourism, a report said on Sunday. The report titled “Unlock the Potential: A Look into Outbound Tourism”, drafted by Nangia Andersen LLP in collaboration with FICCI said…
Melbourne; A 16-year-old Indian-origin boy was ambushed and stabbed on his birthday along with two of his friends in an unprovoked attack while they were playing basketball in Melbourne, according to a media report. The incident took place in Tarneit City on Thursday when Rhyan Singh and his two friends were ambushed by a gang armed with…
New Delhi: India’s semiconductor mission is not just about meeting domestic requirements but also aimed at contributing to a global demand for trusted manufacturing, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said on Sunday. In an address at a conference, he told top executives of leading global semiconductor firms that their decisions and relationships have implications far beyond…
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said over 4,000 Muslim women performing Haj this year without ‘mehram’ was a “huge transformation” and asserted that more and more people were getting the chance to go for the annual pilgrimage with the changes made by his government in the Haj policy over the past few years….
New Delhi: The Congress on Sunday accused the Centre of profiteering by “mercilessly” imposing taxes on petrol and diesel, and demanded that the Narendra Modi government pass on the benefits of a fall in the international crude oil prices to people to provide relief to them from the “back-breaking inflation”. In a statement in Hindi, Congress…
New Delhi: Congress MP Manish Tewari on Sunday claimed that all bills passed after the no-confidence motion was admitted in the Lok Sabha are “constitutionally suspect” and asserted that any substantive legislative business must succeed the outcome of the motion, not precede it. The former Union minister also said the 10-day period for scheduling a discussion…
For the last six weeks in many parts of Andhra Pradesh children and adults are suffering from Pink eye otherwise called conjunctivitis. The symptoms are swelling and redness in the inside of the eyelid and the white part of the eye may also feel itchy and painful. Pink eye is common, and some types of…
Violence in Manipur is not a new phenomenon owing to its complex demographic structure of over 30 different tribes divided into ethnicities and religious lines, militant insurgency and illegal immigration from Myanmar, poppy cultivation, drug trafficking, and gun-running gangs with local political protection. It is virtually a tinderbox waiting to be ignited along these fault…
New Delhi/Ramnagar (U’khand): The number of tigers in India has increased from 2,967 in 2018 to 3,682 in 2022, an annual rise of 6 per cent, according to the latest government data released on the International Tiger Day on Saturday. With this, India has become home to approximately 75 per cent of the world’s tiger population,…
Panjim: Goa has been the epicenter of the booming gin culture in India. With the launch of affordable gins such as “Gin Sin London dry gin” which comes with a lineage from the internationally acclaimed Dr Mohan Krishna-led Cheers group–popular for the creation of Labrodog Scotch whisky and Three Monkeys Indian Single-malt whisky, is also in…
