State lifts ban on wired broadband internet but social media websites, VPNS and mobile hotspots remain inaccessible. The government in India’s northeastern Manipur state has partially lifted a ban on broadband internet for the first time since violence erupted on May 3, and led to a state-wide internet shutdown. Ethnic …
Read More »Why is Shubman Gill’s Test average not good? ‘Rapid sideways trigger and bottom-hand dominance’, says WV Raman | Cricket News
Shubman Gill is just a couple of years into his international career, and already understandably is earmarked for higher things as he has established a place in the XI across all formats in the past 12 months. He already has a century in each format, the youngest Indian to the …
Read More »IMF raises India’s 2023 GDP growth forecast to 6.1%
NEW DELHI : The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Tuesday revised India’s GDP growth forecast to 6.1% for 2023, up from 5.9% projected by the financial institution earlier this year as a result of stronger domestic investment. “Growth in India is projected at 6.1% in 2023, a 0.2 percentage point …
Read More »Pacific Islands capture India’s strategic focus
NEW DELHI : New Delhi is exploring the possibility of trilateral cooperation with France and Australia in the strategic Pacific Islands, according to persons aware of the matter. While France and Australia have been key players in the Pacific Islands for some time, India has stepped up its outreach to …
Read More »India’s rice export ban leads to stockpiling in Canada and around the world
India’s decision to ban the export of non-basmati rice has led to consumers panic-buying and stockpiling Indian rice around the world, driving up prices in the process. In Canada, the US and abroad, reports of panic-buying are flourishing on social media, with stores that cater to South Asian communities implementing …
Read More »ChatGPT for Android is now available in the US, India, Bangladesh and Brazil
A few days after putting up a pre-order page on Google Play, OpenAI has flipped the switch and released ChatGPT for Android. The app is now live in a handful of countries, such as the US, India, Bangladesh and Brazil. If you live in a country that isn’t part of …
Read More »Father Of Indian Woman Who Married Pak Friend
Thomas also said that Anju was not on speaking terms with him, and spoke only to her mother. Gwalior: The father of Anju, a married Indian woman who traveled to Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province and married her Facebook friend there on Tuesday, said she was as good as dead for …
Read More »India to host Australia ahead of ODI World Cup
July 25 (Reuters) – India will host world test champions Australia in a one-day international (ODI) series ahead of the World Cup before taking on England in test matches, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) said on Tuesday. The Indian team is set to play 16 international …
Read More »Modi’s India is moving in an illiberal direction
Receive free Indian politics & policy updates We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Indian politics & policy news every morning. Today’s India is an “illiberal democracy”. Freedom House, the US think-tank, puts it at the same level as Hungary, whose leader, Viktor Orbán, invented …
Read More »India’s Tata Steel CEO says prices to ease in Q2
NEW DELHI, July 25 (Reuters) – India’s Tata Steel Ltd (TISC.NS) expects lower steel prices in the July-September quarter in India and Europe, aided by a fall in the prices of coking coal, a key raw material, its chief executive and managing director said on Tuesday. “In India, the Q2 …
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