Author: Avikshit Khadri

A large majority of the parliamentary group of the ruling Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) believe that President Ranil Wickremesinghe should run for president, but the party will have to decide on who they will support, an MP said. Speaking to reporters on Wednesday March 06, State Minister Arundika Fernando said the SLPP’s parliamentary group overwhelmingly believes that President Wickremesinghe should be the one to govern the country going forward. “We think at the moment that it is Ranil Wickremesinghe who can govern this country going forward. We will present our proposal to the party. If the party decides there’s…

The Border Security Force on Wednesday said it thwarted a “significant” infiltration attempt by a large group of Bangladeshis along the International Border in West Bengal, amid an ongoing “high alert”, announced due to a turmoil in the neighbouring country. Officials said the personnel of the force stopped about 120-140 Bangladeshi citizens who were attempting to cross over to the Indian side from multiple locations in the eastern state. The force has been on a “high alert” mode since the fall of the Sheikh Hasina government in Dhaka earlier this week. The North Bengal Frontier of the force issued a…

The incident occurred at 8 am on Thursday in Ashoka Shopping Centre on Lokmantya Tilak Marg in Mumbai, where the victim has her office, the official said. A man was arrested for allegedly molesting and attempting to kill a 35-year-old woman lawyer inside the washroom of a shopping centre in south Mumbai, a police official said on Friday. The incident occurred at 8 am on Thursday in Ashoka Shopping Centre on Lokmantya Tilak Marg, where the victim has her office, the official said. “At around 7:30 am, she went to the common toilet at the shopping centre. When she found…

“Many important countries, whether it’s the US, the UK, India, are going in for elections and so, I’m not sure in 2024 the standards will develop,” Sinha said. India is unlikely to bring a crypto or Web3-specific legislative bill anytime soon and perhaps up to mid of 2025, said one of India’s senior politicians, who oversees the financial evolution of the nation. Jayant Sinha, Chair of the Standing Committee on Finance in India’s Parliament and a Minister of Parliament from the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), was answering a question during a CoinDesk interview at India Blockchain Week in Bengaluru…

The government aims to grow the pharmaceutical industry by about four times to $200 billion by 2030, Arunish Chawla, secretary, department of pharmaceuticals, said on Friday. The sector should be able to achieve the target through the help of industrial academia and production-linked incentives announced for industrial research and development, he said on the sidelines of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) summit. “We are already achieving double-digit growth year on year. We need to sustain the momentum and accelerate further and also adapt to the structural changes that are coming in the industry and the medical technology sector the…

Navi Mumbai Police arrested a beggar who was suspected of attacking a female college student in the Nerul node of the city. Navi Mumbai Police arrested a beggar who was suspected of attacking a female college student in the Nerul node of the city. The police personnel told PTI that the beggar allegedly attacked the student aged 21 with a glass bottle without any prior provocation. This has resulted in the young woman sustaining grievous injuries.  According to the PTI report, the incident occurred on December 4 when the accused, identified as 26-year-old Imam Hassan Shamshuddin allegedly attacked the woman near…

The state BJP unit has imposed a stay on the fresh appointments of new presidents of its 10 mandal units in Mira-Bhayandar which were recently announced by city chief- Kishore Sharma Sending out a firm message that factional politics will not be tolerated within the party, the state BJP unit has imposed a stay on the fresh appointments of new presidents of its 10 mandal units in Mira-Bhayandar which were recently announced by Kishor Sharma. An official letter imposing a stay on the appointments was issued by Vikrant Patil, who holds the position of general secretary in the state unit…

Berlin (05/11 – 40) The international transport corridor “Tajikistan-Europe” will be expanded. The initiative for the implementation of the “Crossroads of the World” project was announced at the IV International Tbilisi Silk Road Forum, which concluded in the capital of Georgia. The project envisions the development of connections between Armenia, Azerbaijan, Turkey, and Iran. This means that the Silk Road, which once passed through the North Caucasus, will now be connected to the South Caucasus hub. “In this way, another node is added to the multimodal corridor ‘China – Tajikistan – Uzbekistan – Turkmenistan – Iran – Turkey – Europe’,”…

Police arrested the four for assaulting and causing hurt to Bharat Maruthi Ghadge, who has been booked for molesting and assaulting a woman, along with the charges of trespassing. Four people brutally thrashed a 42-year-old man for allegedly molesting a woman. The four accused are identified as Sagar Yadav (26), Indar Jadhav (23), Akshay Waghote (21), and Tushar Parkar (29), got to know about a man Bharat Maruthi Ghadge, 42, who had allegedly molested a woman they were familiar with. According to the police, Bharat, a rickshaw driver by profession, had entered the Ramabai Nagar area in Bhandup on October…

This is a ground-breaking phenomenon and will staggeringly change the trade and connectivity perception between India, West Asia, and Europe. The success of India’s G20 Presidency and its rise from the global south to the distinction of a leading player in global geopolitics speaks of the story of its grit, resilience, and determination. The secret of its roaring success comes from relying on its perennial cultural ethos of Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam – One Earth, One Family, One Future. The Sanskrit expression Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam embodies the essence of India’s wisdom tradition that believes in the culture of accommodation and shared success. The message of…