Miscellaneous

New Delhi: In a major crackdown on Chinese shell companies in India, the Serious Fraud Investigation Office (SFIO) has arrested chief plotter and racket mastermind Dortse. Dortse had fled from Delhi NCR to a remote place in Bihar and was…

Moscow: Russian President Vladimir Putin and his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron, held a telephone conversation on the safety of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant (NPP), the Kremlin has said in a statement. "The Russian side drew…

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Samarkand, Uzbekistan on September 15-16 to attend the 22nd Meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), the Ministry of External Affairs said on…

Riyadh: External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar on Saturday expressed confidence that India will be the fastest growing major economy in the world this year and will at least grow at 7 per cent. The External Affairs Minister, who is on a…

Belgrade: The European Union is ratcheting up pressure on Serbia so that it chooses a side in the EU-Russian row, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Sunday. He spoke a day after hosting EU envoy for the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue…

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday spoke over the phone with Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Elizabeth Truss and congratulated her on assuming the office of the Prime Minister of UK. He also appreciated her…

New Delhi: Concerned over illegal loan Apps such as KOKO Loan and JOJO Loan with most of them having Chinese links, the government has decided to crack down on such apps with a comprehensive action plan. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman…

Tokyo: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Friday called on Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida at the conclusion of India-Japan 2+2 Ministerial Dialogue. Their Japanese counterparts Minister of…

Tokyo: Terming energy and food security as pressing issues, Indian External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar on Thursday said that "dialogue and diplomacy" were the way to addressing challenges posed by the Covid-19 pandemic and ongoing…

New Delhi: The incidents of border killing have decreased significantly -- that has made two top leaders of India and Bangladesh satisfied, claimed a joint statement that was issued on Wednesday following a meeting between Bangladesh prime…

Bhubaneswar: Odisha government on Wednesday signed a MoU with TATA Memorial Centre (TMC) Mumbai for the establishment of a 200 bedded cancer hospital at Bhubaneswar with an investment of Rs 650 crore. Director of TATA Memorial Centre Dr…

Antananarivo (Madagascar): A humanitarian assistance of 5000 metric tonnes of rice from India to help Madagascar was handed in an official ceremony at the Iavoloha Palace in Madagascar on Wednesday. Ambassador of India to Madagascar Abhay…

Mumbai: Kotak Mahindra Bank (KMBL) on Tuesday announced the launch of Aadhaar based e-KYC of the client using face authentication. Kotak is one of the first banks to go live by enabling client onboarding via face authentication-based e-KYC.…

Chengdu: A total of 21 people have been killed in a 6.8-magnitude earthquake that jolted Luding County in southwest China's Sichuan Province on Monday, local authorities said. Seven people were killed in Luding County, Ganzi Tibetan…

New Delhi: The Directorate of Enforcement (ED) conducted searches at Paytm Gateways, Razorapay and Cashfree Payments premises in an on-going probe related to instant Chinese loan app that is being run by Chinese-owned companies, ED said on…

Dhaka: Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will visit Delhi on Monday. During her 4-day India visit, several agreements and memorandums of understanding are likely to be signed between the two countries. This agreement and MoUs will…

Khargone (MP): As many as 63 country-made pistols were appropriated from three persons arrested in this district headquarters on Saturday by a Punjab Police team. “Kailash Singh, Sonu Singh and Gorelal – apprehended on Kajal Pura Road –…

Prague: An estimated 70,000 people participated in a rally in Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic. There were slogans against the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), European Union (EU), the Green Deal and the Czech…

Dhaka: Bangladesh Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Shahriar Alam said that Bangladesh can import fuel oil from India and not from Russia. He gave this information at a press conference organized on the occasion of the Prime Minister's…

Mexico City: Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla unveiled a statue of Swami Vivekananda at Autonomous University of State of Hidalgo in Mexico today. This is the first statue of Swami Vivekananda in Latin America. Speaking on the occasion, Birla…