Tag: Indian

Indian tycoon Mukesh Ambani's $10 billion entry into renewable energy could drive solar tariffs further to the ground and ignite bidding wars with fellow billionaire Gautam Adani, industry analysts say.

Congress leader and Lok Sabha MP Rahul Gandhi turned 51 on Saturday. Like any other year since 1970, birthday wishes poured in for him in plenty this year too.

Megha Rajagopalan, an Indian-origin journalist, along with two contributors, has won the Pulitzer Prize for innovative investigative reports that exposed a vast infrastructure of prisons and mass internment camps secretly built by China for detaining hundreds of thousands of Muslims in its restive Xinjiang region.

The Naismith Basketball Memorial Hall of Fame announced its latest list of inductees last week as part of the class of 2020 and while the presence of names like Kobe Bryant, Tim Duncan and Kevin Garnett didn't really spark any real surprise given their contributions to the game, one name did stand out - Nav Bhatia.

Vietnam has discovered a new COVID-19 variant which spreads quickly by air and is a combination of the strains first found in India and Britain, health officials confirmed Saturday.

India is expected to produce a record 108.75 million tonnes of wheat this year, the farm ministry said in its third forecast for the crop year to June 2021, marginally lower than its previous estimate of 109.24 million tonnes.

An Indian couple reportedly chartered a plane and held a mid-air wedding with more than 160 guests in an effort to escape coronavirus restrictions.

The Pfizer and AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccines are highly effective against the variant identified in India after two doses, a study has found.

There was a threat of the variant entering Sri Lanka through those arriving from India and from other countries where the variant has spread.

The Indian cricket board will explore all options to try to complete this year's Indian Premier League (IPL) but is yet to discuss offers from English counties to host the remaining matches, a senior official told Reuters on Friday.