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November 13, 2024 4:52 PM
India is likely to see implementation of one of the largest infrastructure programmes of the 21st century, according to a KPMG report which emphasizes that creating fiscal avenues to generate capital will be crucial to the success of this initiative. “Steps to unlock foreign and domestic capital ...
November 13, 2024 4:27 PM
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday said that the government has officially approved the creation of the first all-women battalion within the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF). In a post on X, Shah highlighted this as a significant step in realizing Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s vi...
November 13, 2024 5:05 PM
India, which began its electric vehicle (EV) journey with two-wheelers, is set to become a “major producer" of electric vehicles like China in years to come, ace global investor Mark Mobius has said. The EV sales have seen a record surge under the PM E-DRIVE scheme, reflecting the growing momentu...
November 13, 2024 4:06 PM
As the Maharashtra assembly elections approach, Union Home Minister and BJP leader Amit Shah launched a scathing attack on the opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) alliance, referring to it as a force of destruction. While addressing a public rally during his campaign, Shah contrasted the ruling BJP-l...
November 13, 2024 3:33 PM
The United States will officially open a new air defence base in northern Poland on Wednesday, as Warsaw seeks to reassure citizens that NATO guarantees their security amid jitters after Donald Trump's presidential election victory. Situated in the town of Redzikowo near the Baltic coast, the base ...
November 13, 2024 3:01 PM
COP29 negotiators welcomed as an early boost to the two-week summit a pledge by major development banks to lift funding to poor and middle-income countries struggling with global warming. A group of lenders, including the World Bank, announced a joint goal on Tuesday of increasing this finance to $...
November 13, 2024 1:45 PM
Britain's Samantha Harvey won the 2024 Booker Prize for her novel 'Orbital', a story about a single day aboard the International Space Station which she wrote during COVID-19 lockdowns. The novel, Harvey's fifth, was the top selling book on the shortlist of six finalists and has sold more copies th...
November 13, 2024 12:39 PM
Union Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas Hardeep Singh Puri on Tuesday said that the country could save 91,000 crore rupees on the import bill through biofuel blending and this money could be utilized for the benefit of the agricultural sector. Inaugurating the 27th Energy Technology Summit in ...
November 13, 2024 11:24 AM
Several international airlines cancelled flights to and from Indonesia's resort island of Bali on Wednesday, after further eruptions of a volcano that has spewed ash clouds as high as 10 km (32,808 ft) and forced thousands to evacuate. Jetstar and Qantas said they had stopped flights to Bali on Wed...
November 13, 2024 11:13 AM
Actor and director John Krasinski was named People magazine's "sexiest man alive" for 2024 on Wednesday, taking over the mantle from "Grey's Anatomy" actor Patrick Dempsey. "Just immediate blackout, actually. Zero thoughts," Krasinski told People in reaction to the news. The actor is perhaps best k...
