Tag: India

Bhubaneswar: All the cricket fanatics are always eager to lend their ears to the interesting stories of the game and we all have heard things among the most bizarre tales ever told. One such incident happened in June 2006, when India was playing the first Test against West Indies at St John’s in Antigua. Apart […]

New Delhi: After a gap of over two-and-half months, India and China on Sunday held the ninth round of military talks specifically focusing on ways to move forward on the long-negotiated disengagement process in eastern Ladakh as thousands of their troops remained deployed at friction points under freezing conditions. The Corps Commander-level meeting began at […]

New Delhi: India on Monday continued its streak of low single-day coronavirus cases with 13,203 fresh infections reported in the last 24 hours which pushed the overall tally to 1,06,67,736, health officials said. For the past 18 days, the country has been recording less than 20,000 daily new infections. Also, the death toll remained below […]

New Delhi: Indian and Chinese soldiers clashed at Naku La in North Sikkim last week with many injuries reported, said a government source. The situation is said to be under control though as of now. Naku La, incidentally, was one of the original face-off sites, along with Pangong Tso, Galwan, Gogra, Hot Springs, in early-May […]

United Nations: India is one of the world’s best assets in the fight against Covid-19 because of its ability to supply the vaccines needed to fight the pandemic and the UN counts on it, according to Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. “I think that the production capacity of India is one of the best assets the world […]

Beijing: China on Friday said the border issue with India should not be linked with bilateral ties, even as it welcomed External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar’s remarks on the significance their ties and the importance New Delhi attached to relations with Beijing. “I have noted his remarks,” China’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian told a […]

New Delhi: With 13,083 new Covid-19 cases reported in the last 24 hours, India continued its streak of low single-day cases, even as the overall tally mounted to 1,07,33,131, health officials said on Saturday. For the past 23 days, the country has been recording less than 20,000 daily new infections. Since Jan 10, the daily […]

By Lalit K Jha Washington: Terming the military detention of civilian leaders in Myanmar a coup, a senior State Department official on Tuesday said the US is in touch with like-minded allies like India and Japan on the latest developments in the Southeast Asian nation as they have better contact with the military there. Myanmar’s […]

Bengaluru: India plans to spend 130 billion dollars on military modernisation in the next 7-8 years to strengthen its security apparatus, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said on Wednesday. Speaking at the ‘Aero India’ show here, the Minister said: “We have taken many steps to strengthen our security apparatus recently. Domestic manufacturing of bigger and complex […]

By Lalit K Jha Washington: Recognising that peaceful protests are a hallmark of a thriving democracy, the US on Wednesday said it welcomes steps that would improve the efficiency of India’s markets and attract greater private sector investment. “In general, the United States welcomes steps that would improve the efficiency of India’s markets and attract […]

By Sumit Singh Bengaluru: In order to boost its arms export to friendly nations, India approved on Thursday the export of indigenous Light Combat Aircraft Tejas, artillery guns, explosive, tanks and missiles, anti-tank mines and others. In total, the government approved the export of 156 defence equipment. These include 19 aeronautical systems, 16 nuclear-biological-chemical equipment, […]

New Delhi: In the 19 days since the beginning of the country’s Covid-19 vaccination drive, India has inoculated nearly 4.5 million (44,49,552) of its population, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare said on Thursday. The ministry officials also claimed that India has become the fastest country in the world to achieve the 4 million […]

New Delhi: Continuing its streak of low numbers of single-day coronavirus cases, India reported 12,059 new infections in the last 24 hours even as its overall tally mounted to 1,08,26,363, health officials said on Sunday. For over a week, the country has recorded less than 15,000 new infections daily. Also, the daily Covid-19 death toll […]

New Delhi: The Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) force has cleared approximately 80 meters inside the tunnel near Tapovan Dam in Chamoli district which was damaged after a glacier burst triggered a flash flood in the region, with 100 meters debris remaining inside the tunnel to be cleared. The operation by the ITBP is underway as […]

Bengaluru: NSE Nifty is up 14 times in 25 years, traversing its journey from 1,107 to 15,000 points mark in the last 25 years. For the first time in history, the Nifty has closed above the psychological mark of 15,000 on February 8, 2021. According to a report by Motilal Oswal Financial Services, the Nifty […]