Mumbai Feb 18 (IANS) Actor Gurmeet Choudhary, who is currently in Birmingham, UK, for work commitments, highlighted how he is ‘chasing dreams across borders and busy building empires’. The actor also stated that he considers his ‘work as his passport’. Gurmeet also shared a series of pictures from his work trip where he is looking uber chic. Dressed in a vibrant multi-coloured jacket paired with red track pants and sunglasses, Gurmeet was seen posing by a riverside and strolling through …
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New Delhi, Feb 16 (IANS) While India has diversified its energy basket and started sourcing more oil and gas from the US, it is also diversifying its import basket for precious metals from the UAE so that it can purchase more gold and silver from the US market instead, a senior official said.This will help to bring down prices and also the trade surplus with the US.The United States is a major global hub for trading these precious metals. It exports significant amounts of gold (including waste/s…
New Delhi, Feb 16 (IANS) Elon Musk-run X Corp suffered a global outage, including in India, as well as several other countries like the US and the UK, on Monday evening, with users unable to access their accounts properly, and posts unable to load on the platform.According to the outage detecting portal Down Detector, the number of outage reports surged to over 25,000.While 53 per cent of X app users were unable to log into their accounts, 16 per cent of website users reported issues, as per Dow…
New Delhi, Feb 15 (IANS) The India-UK free trade agreement is likely to come into effect from April this year, paving the way for an increase in Indian exports to the European nation, according to a senior official on Sunday. The agreement was signed between the two countries in July last year and has to be now approved by the UK Parliament for it to come into effect.The process has already started with the debate on the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) having begun in the both Houses of the British P…
Puducherry, Feb 14 (IANS) Union Home Minister Amit Shah, on Saturday, launched a sharp attack on Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, accusing him of misleading farmers and fishermen over the Centre’s recent free trade agreements (FTAs) and trade deals signed under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Addressing a public gathering at Karaikkal in Puducherry, Union Minister Shah asserted that India’s fishermen stand to gain significantly from the trade agreements concluded with the European U…
New Delhi, Feb 12 (IANS) India now has market access to 70 per cent of global GDP, in most cases at zero duty for domestic products, Union Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal said on Thursday.Speaking at an event here, Goyal said that nine Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) have been concluded in the last three years, covering 38 countries with strong per capita incomes, and most developed markets now have trade arrangements with India.“Agreements include the 27-nation EU bloc, four-nation E…
New Delhi, Feb 11 (IANS) The EU-India free trade agreement (FTA) — touted as “mother of all deals” — unveils the emerging silhouette of a post-US world order amid relentless threats to territorial sovereignty, punitive tariffs and the weakening of multilateral institutions, according to a recent report in The Guardian.The trade deal announced recently by President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Council, Antonio Costa, and Prime Minister Narendra …
New Delhi, Feb 10 (IANS) Sri Lanka and New Zealand have suffered significant setbacks in the ongoing ICC Men’s T20 World Cup, with star all-rounders Wanindu Hasaranga and Michael Bracewell ruled out of the remainder of the tournament due to injuries. The two teams have moved swiftly to name replacements, with Deshan Hemantha joining the Sri Lankan squad and Cole McConchie drafted into the New Zealand touring party.Hasaranga’s tournament was cut short following a hamstring injury sustained du…
For a generation of Indian students and families who grew up treating an overseas degree as an almost guaranteed pathway…
For millions of Indian professionals eyeing opportunities in Europe and the United Kingdom, the recent free trade agreements between India…