Recent Views 11 NEW DELHI: BJP president Nitin Nabin Wednesday unveiled a month-long calendar of his party’s programmes to mark PM Narendra Modi’s birthday coupled with the upcoming milestone of his unbroken stint of 25 years as head of govt, with youth at the centre of several events.Sharing details of “Seva Sankalp Abhiyaan”, which will…
Recent Views 15 NEW DELHI: Govt on Wednesday approved eight railway multi-tracking projects worth Rs 20,804 crore as part of a big push for faster movement of passengers and goods across its high-density networks.PM Narendra Modi said that these projects will “ensure stronger connectivity, faster passenger movement and lower logistics cost”.Announcing the decisions, railway minister…
Recent Views 18 NEW DELHI: India’s largest private airport operator – Adani Airport Holdings (AAHL) – has entered into binding agreements to raise Rs 9,825 crore (about $1 billion) of primary equity capital from a consortium of investors, comprising Alpha Wave Global, Premji Invest, Temasek and BlackRock managed funds. The transaction values AAHL at about…
Recent Views 16 MUMBAI: IPO-bound National Stock Exchange (NSE), the largest stock exchange in India by turnover and profits, is reducing the size of its offering to about 5.3% of its equity base, from 6% planned earlier. The stocks will be offered in a price band of Rs 1,700 to Rs 1,785 per share, people…
Recent Views 21 NEW DELHI: Skoda Auto and JSW Green Mobility have signed a non-binding agreement to explore a joint venture that could develop, manufacture and sell passenger vehicles in India and overseas, the companies announced on Wednesday. The proposed partnership will span internal combustion engine vehicles, electric vehicles, plug-in hybrids and hybrids, signalling that…
Recent Views 13 An international team of biologists, chemists and physicists has used sophisticated 3D X-ray technology to investigate the tooth at an unprecedented level. A unicorn may be a mythical creature, but nature made something very similar under the Arctic ice. Wondering what? Well, the narwhal has a strange tusk that can reach nearly…
Recent Views 15 Apple’s first foldable phone NEW DELHI: Apple on Wednesday entered the foldable smartphone market with iPhone Duo, priced at Rs 2,99,900, taking on Samsung, Google and Chinese brands in a category it had stayed away from even as rivals spent years refining the form factor.The book-style device has a 5.5-inch outer screen…
Recent Views 17 For the uninitiated, now in its seventh year, the SYD100 Scholarship was set up to support people from underrepresented backgrounds in aviation including women and young people from diverse cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds. For Angel Marino, the life-changing journey began thousands of feet in the air. Her first flight was at the…
Recent Views 13 Zelenskyy’s plane nearly hit by drone A plane carrying Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy narrowly avoided a collision with an unidentified drone while taking off from Moldova en route to Oslo for the funeral of King Harald V.Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store confirmed the incident in an interview with public broadcaster NRK…
Recent Views 12 Trump declares that Iran war will immediately end after midterm polls US President Donald Trump on Tuesday said the Iran war will end “immediately” after the upcoming US midterm elections later this year.Speaking to reporters, MAGA supremo Trump said, “I think the war will end immediately after the election… They’re desperate to…
