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New Delhi [India], April 7 (ANI): LPG shortage has taken a toll on the sugar demand from restaurants and bulk consumers, impacting overall consumption, said Indian Sugar & Bio-energy Manufacturers Association's (ISMA) Director General, Deepak Ballani. "Definitely, this has resulted in less consumption of sugar, and this is evident from the kind of dispatches we are seeing by the mills. In spite of a moderate quota released by the Department of Food and Public Distribution (DFPD), the dispatch h ...Read More >
Pune (Maharashtra) [India], April 2: EKA Mobility, a leading electric vehicles and technology company, today announced a strong 5X year-on-year volume growth in FY 2025-26, with 1,143 units sold and 1,344 electric commercial vehicles produced. This milestone comes on the back of the company's comprehensive electric vehicle portfolio across segments. During the year, EKA entered the M&HCV truck segment, in addition to its existing bus and SCV portfolio. The company is a Champion OEM under the Aut ...Read More >
PUNE, India, April 2, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- EKA Mobility, a leading electric vehicles and technology company, today announced a strong 5X year-on-year volume growth in FY 2025-26, with 1,143 units sold and 1,344 electric commercial vehicles produced. This milestone comes on the back of the company's comprehensive electric vehicle portfolio across segments. During the year, EKA entered the M&HCV truck segment, in addition to its existing bus and SCV portfolio. The company is a Champion OEM under t ...Read More >
New Delhi, March 31 (SocialNews.XYZ) The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has said the ongoing US-Israel and Iran war could shape the global economy in different ways -- all roads leading to higher prices and slower growth. The IMF said the war in the Middle East is upending lives and livelihoods in the region and beyond. "It is also dimming the outlook for many economies that had only just shown signs of a sustained recovery from previous crises. The shock is global, yet asymmetric. Energy i ...Read More >
Muscat - Indian business leaders and representatives of industry chambers have underlined the growing depth of India-Oman economic relations and pointed to significant growth opportunities across multiple sectors as Prime Minister Narendra Modi visits Oman on December 17-18. In a report published by ANI, Naveen Jindal, Chairman of Jindal Steel, said the Prime Minister Modi's visit has generated widespread enthusiasm in the sultanate. "This is a very big moment that India's Prime Minister, Nare ...Read More >
ICG Ship Sachet, which was returning from deployment to East African nations, was directed to assist. (Representative image) The Indian Coast Guard (ICG) has carried out a challenging long-distance medical evacuation of an injured Iranian fisherman from the vessel Al-Owais in the Arabian Sea, roughly 1,500 km west of Kochi. The rescue began after the Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre (MRCC), Mumbai, received an alert from its Iranian counterpart in Chabahar about an onboard explosion and engi ...Read More >
Addressing a gathering of Indian diaspora earlier, he said his presence at the swearing-in ceremony underscored India's "steadfast support for the government and people of Seychelles". Vice-President C P Radhakrishnan attended the swearing-in ceremony of the President of Seychelles, Dr Patrick Herminie, in Victoria, Seychelles on Sunday on behalf of India. In a post on X, the V-P's office said he had conveyed his greetings and best wishes to the new President on behalf of the government and pe ...Read More >
Ahmedabad: The music thumped, the lights flashed, and revellers danced into the night, until sirens broke the beat. A DJ party at a Shilaj farmhouse turned into a police raid, as undercover officers from Bopal police found liquor and hookahs -- both prohibited under Gujarat's laws -- being served at the party on Friday night. By morning, 20 people, including 13 foreign students, two bootleggers and the owners of the farmhouse, were taken into custody.According to Bopal inspector B T Gohil, aroun ...Read More >
New Delhi, Oct 24 (SocialNews.XYZ) Vice President of India, C P Radhakrishnan, will be on a two-day visit to Seychelles starting October 26 to attend the swearing-in ceremony of Patrick Herminie, President-elect of the country, on behalf of the Government of India. During the visit, which is taking place at the invitation of the government of Seychelles, Vice President Radhakrishnan will convey India's warm felicitations to Herminie and reaffirm the close, longstanding, and time-tested ties bet ...Read More >
New Delhi, Oct 24: Vice President of India, C P Radhakrishnan, will be on a two-day visit to Seychelles starting October 26 to attend the swearing-in ceremony of Patrick Herminie, President-elect of the country, on behalf of the Government of India. During the visit, which is taking place at the invitation of the government of Seychelles, Vice President Radhakrishnan will convey India's warm felicitations to Herminie and reaffirm the close, longstanding, and time-tested ties between the two cou ...Read More >
New Delhi, Oct 16 (PTI) Around 15 million people in India were affected due to wildfires in 2024-25, with Uttar Pradesh being the most impacted region, a global study has estimated. Uttar Pradesh was also found to have experienced its most severe wildfire season on record, which researchers said was driven by crop burning, heatwaves and dry fuel accumulation. Regional fires contributed to severe haze episodes in New Delhi in November 2024, with PM2.5 levels reaching 13 times the daily standard ...Read More >
NAIROBI, Oct 15 (Reuters) - Former Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga has died at the age of 80, a source in Odinga's office told Reuters on Wednesday, without giving further details. Indian newspaper Mathrubhumi earlier reported that Odinga, who was undergoing treatment in the southern Indian city of Kochi, suffered a cardiac arrest on Wednesday and was rushed to hospital where he was pronounced dead. As opposition leader, Odinga lost all five of his presidential campaigns, with two of the vo ...Read More >
Kolkata: The city has relived its connect with Jane Goodall, a British primatologist and conservationist known for her work on chimpanzees in East Africa, who passed away on Wednesday. Goodall, the pioneer of primate ethology, had visited Alipore zoo in Jan 2007. While some of her suggestions, that she had documented in the Jane Goodall Institute report after a visit to the zoo on Jan 19, 2007, were later implemented by the zoo, in some cases, wildlife campaigners believe, the zoo has a lot of g ...Read More >
New Delhi: A 54-year-old Canada-based man, claiming to be a former national-level kabaddi player, has been arrested by IGI Airport police for allegedly issuing fraudulent documents to two of the nine Indian passengers who were deported from Ethiopia six years ago. The case surfaced when on Sept 27, 2019, the passengers were deported from the east African country for possessing fake continuous discharge certificates (CDCs) allegedly issued by the ministry of works, transport and infrastructure, g ...Read More >
Mahesh Babu's NGO, Mahesh Babu Foundation, provides financial assistance to families with newborn babies with heart ailments, helps poor children afford education, and adopts and develops villages into smart villages. The Union Ministry of Home Affairs has granted registration to Telugu actor Mahesh Babu's NGO, Mahesh Babu Foundation, under the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA), 2010, to receive donations from foreign countries. An MHA official said earlier this month that they have g ...Read More >
New Delhi: A parliamentary committee has expressed serious concern over China's expanding naval presence and strategic infrastructure in the Indian Ocean Region (IOR). The committee on external affairs, headed by Congress leader Shashi Tharoor, was of the view that the expanding Chinese presence in the IOR highlighted the risks it poses to India's national security and regional influence. The panel called for strengthening the maritime strategy to counter the Chinese expansion and Influence in ...Read More >
East Africa chosen for key action scenes and rugged landscapes Mahesh Babu and Priyanka Chopra will resume shooting for SSMB29 this August, India Today has exclusively learnt. Directed by SS Rajamouli, the film marks his first collaboration with both stars and is being touted as a globe-trotting action-adventure. Speaking to India Today exclusively, a source close to the production shared, "August is when the cameras start rolling again. Mahesh has been undergoing extensive physical training, ...Read More >
Bareilly (UP), Jul 17 (PTI) A teacher from Bahedi district, who went viral recently after reciting a poem mentioning Kanwar Yatra, approached the police on Thursday stating a threat to his life from anti-social elements. A case has been registered at Bahedi police station based on a complaint from Dr Rajneesh Kumar Gangwar, a teacher at MGM Inter College in the district. According to Circle Officer Arun Kumar Singh, Gangwar's complaint says that ever since his recitation of the poem 'Tum Kanwa ...Read More >
New Delhi: In the world of medicine, some enemies disappear quietly. Others evolve, hide in plain sight and return stronger. Typhoid fever is one of them. Once tamed by antibiotics, this ancient killer is back with a vengeance. It does not knock. It does not wait. And this time, the drugs do not work. In hospitals across the United Kingdom (England, Wales and Northern Ireland), a pattern has begun to emerge. Not a fluke. Not a seasonal spike. But a steady and quiet surge. The UK Health Security ...Read More >
I for I: India set to arm Indonesia to counter misadventures in Indo-Pacific In a historic move, Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Limited (MDL) has inked a $52.96 million deal to acquire a controlling stake in Sri Lanka's premier dockyard, Colombo Dockyard PLC (CDPLC). This marks MDL's first international acquisition, signalling India's intent to establish a strategic maritime presence in the Indian Ocean particularly significant amid intensifying Chinese influence in the region. The deal, finalised t ...Read More >
CHENNAI: In a bid to strengthen East Africa's energy ecosystem, the Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras) has joined hands with GRID-INDIA, a Miniratna enterprise under the Union Ministry of Power, to enhance energy infrastructure and technical capacity in Tanzania. "This strategic partnership, formalised through a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on May 22, 2025, at IIT Madras, brings together India's premier academic institution and the national power system operator to offer ce ...Read More >
Chennai: Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras), in collaboration with GRID-INDIA, a Central Public Sector Enterprise, is starting a special teaching and research programme for the students of Tanzania, an East African country. From certification courses, joint research, and technical consultation projects, the collaboration will include everything for strengthening its infrastructure of energy. With an active presence in Africa through IITM Zanzibar, the institute is committed to ...Read More >
New Delhi, Jan 17 (PTI) India's offensive and defensive responses need to be further strengthened in view of turmoil in the rules-based global order, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said on Friday. In an address at an event, he also said that the Indian Navy is working towards increasing its presence in the Indian Ocean region. Also Read | Indian Army's 'Sambhav' Smart Phone Used During China Border Talks for Secure Communication. The Indian Ocean is witnessing increasing Chinese presence trig ...Read More >
New Delhi, Jan 17 (PTI) India's offensive and defensive responses need to be further strengthened in view of turmoil in the rules-based global order, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said on Friday. In an address at an event, he also said that the Indian Navy is working towards increasing its presence in the Indian Ocean region. The Indian Ocean is witnessing increasing Chinese presence triggering concern among India's national security planners. India's economic prosperity is linked to maritim ...Read More >
Filmmaker Jayan K Cherian; stills from his latest film 'Rhythm of Dammam', on the Siddi Community of Yellapur in Uttara Kannada (north Karnataka). The stunningly shot and evocative Rhythm of Dammam, in Siddi Bhasha, is the first fictional feature ever to be made on the Indian Siddi community that traces its ancestry to Africa. In the film, the pre-teen Jayaram, who lives in Karnataka's Yellapura, is afflicted by his dead grandfather's visions, as his impoverished family fights over supposed bur ...Read More >
The total cost of the second phase of the project is estimated at $83.3 million, with the Tanzanian government contributing $8.33 million in counterpart funding. The African Development Bank (AfDB) has approved a $75 million loan to Tanzania for the second phase of the Centre of Excellence for Skills and Tertiary Education in Biomedical Sciences project, aimed at tackling the growing burden of cardiovascular disease in the country and the broader East African region. The total cost of the seco ...Read More >
Many seniors of the Indian Community came together at the Gala for a belated Diwali bash. The event witnessed an impressive turnout of over 700 attendees, including the Chief Guest, Prem Bhandari, a prominent voice of the Indian diaspora and Chairman of Jaipur Foot USA. Dr Rekha Bhandari, triple board-certified Internal medicine, Geriatrics, and Palliative, said that the challenges facing the population of Indian immigrants are somewhat unique. "The biggest epidemic among seniors is loneliness ...Read More >
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