NEW DELHI: Ratan Tata, one of India’s most iconic business leaders, passed away on late Wednesday night at the age of 86, at Mumbai’s Breach Candy Hospital, where he had been admitted due to a sudden drop in blood pressure. In an official statement, the Tata Group announced the industrialist’s demise with deep sorrow. “It […]
WASHINGTON: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is a “total killer” with the nation’s adversaries and turned down offers of help when India faced threats, former US President Donald Trump has said. “He’s great, he’s a friend of mine, but on the outside, he looks like he’s your father”, yet “he’s the nicest, total killer”, Trump recalled […]
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed deep sorrow over the passing of Ratan Tata, calling him a “visionary business leader, a compassionate soul and an extraordinary human being.” In a heartfelt statement on X, PM Modi wrote, “Shri Ratan Tata Ji was a visionary business leader, a compassionate soul and an extraordinary human being. […]
MUMBAI: Industry leaders including Google’s India-born chief executive Sundar Pichai on Wednesday mourned the death of Ratan Tata, saying the veteran industrialist cared about making India better. “He leaves an extraordinary business and philanthropic legacy and was instrumental in mentoring and developing the modern business leadership in India. He deeply cared about making India better,” […]
WASHINGTON: President Joe Biden held a “direct,” 30-minute phone call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday, their first conversation in almost two months and a chance to confer over Israel’s planned response to an Iranian ballistic missile attack. “They discussed a range of issues,” press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said after the call ended, […]
MUMBAI: Chief Minister Eknath Shinde-led Maharashtra Cabinet on Thursday passed a resolution urging the Centre to confer Bharat Ratna, India’s highest civilian honour to iconic industrialist Ratan Tata, who passed away at Mumbai’s Breach Candy Hospital. Mr. Tata was already a recipient of Padma Vibhushan, the country’s second-highest civilian honour. The Cabinet also passed a […]
STOCKHOLM: South Korean author Han Kang has won the 2024 Nobel Prize in literature “for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life”. Mats Malm, permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy’s Nobel Committee, announced the prize in Stockholm on Thursday. Han, 53, is the first South Korean writer […]
NEW DELHI: The collective wealth of India’s 100 richest tycoons surpassed the trillion dollar milestone for the first time as more than 80 per cent of the country’s richest tycoons are now wealthier than they were a year ago, a Forbes report showed on Thursday. In a record-breaking year, India’s wealthiest are now worth $1.1 […]
KATHMANDU: Nepal’s 18-year-old Nima Rinji Sherpa has become the youngest climber ever to scale each of the 14 tallest mountains (over 8,000 metres) in the world with his successful summit of Mt Shishapangma in China. Nima and his partner Pasang Nurbu Sherpa reached the summit of the Shishapangma, which stands at 8,027 metres above sea […]
KATHMANDU: A total of 712 climbers have received permission to climb 29 mountains in Nepal during the fall climbing season. The climbers are from 62 countries and regions, and 163 of them are females, according to the Department of Tourism. “We’re expecting a surge in the number in the coming days,” Rakesh Gurung, director at […]