August 23, 2024

Mumbai: India's top cement makers are slated to undertake capital expenditure worth Rs 1.25 trillion over the next two financial years (2025-26 and 2026-27) to add 130 million tonne capacity. This significant capex plan is driven by healthy…

New Delhi: The government is trying its best to address the issue of goods and services tax (GST) under the reverse charge mechanism for import of services in the upcoming GST Council meet to be held on September 9, sources privy to the…

NEW DELHI: India may not meet its target of increasing the share of natural gas in the country’s energy mix to 15% by 2030, according to Spencer Dale, group chief economist at BP plc. Dale, speaking to the press on Wednesday, also…

DHAKA: Bangladesh's interim government revoked the diplomatic passport of ousted premier Sheikh Hasina on Thursday, after she fled a student-led uprising earlier this month. The interior ministry said in a statement that Hasina's…

Yen Bai province: six-year-old boy who was missing for five days has been found deep in a forest in Vietnam. Dang Tien Lam, a resident of Van Yen district in Yen Bai province, disappeared on August 17 while playing in a stream with his…

Gaborone: Botswana has recently made headlines with the discovery of an extraordinary 2,492-carat diamond, one of the largest ever unearthed globally. The monumental find was made at one of the country’s mines, reinforcing Botswana’s status…

LAHORE, Pakistan: Gunmen opened fire on a school van in Pakistan’s eastern Punjab province Thursday, killing two children and wounding six other people, police and officials said. Authorities said the driver, who was among the wounded,…

WARSAW: Prime Minister Narendra Modi was greeted on Thursday by his Polish counterpart Donald Tusk before heading to Kyiv for top-level meetings. The two leaders are expected to sign bilateral strategic cooperation agreements covering…

PORTICELLO: Searches resumed Thursday for the last person missing after a superyacht carrying UK tech tycoon Mike Lynch sank off Sicily, with divers recovering a fifth body from the wreck. Specialist divers working with an underwater…