The UK government’s new visa rules and the country’s exit from the European Union will greatly help India and further strengthen the trade and business relationships between the countries, said Oliver Ballhatchet, the British Deputy High Commissioner, on Thursday. Ballhatchet, who took charge as the British Deputy High Commissioner in October 2019, was addressing journalists…
In India, the effort to bring more business to local firms has Big Tech in its crosshairs. And perhaps strengthen the country’s burgeoning eCommerce ecosystem in the process. Bloomberg reported on Thursday (Oct. 1), the founders of dozens of tech firms housed in India held a Zoom call aimed at setting the wheels in motion to form…
3,000 miles. 43 days. Two rowers. One boat. That was the challenge that Anna and Cameron McLean set themselves by taking part in what’s known as “the world’s toughest row”. As they crossed the finishing line in Antigua, they set two Guinness World Records – the first brother and sister to row across an ocean,…
Air India may soon be joining the growing list of airlines operating flights to nowhere. Taiwanese carrier Starlux has already conducted several flights while Australia’s Qantas just launched its own scenic flight program. Singapore Airlines is likely to follow suit as well. October may see many more aircraft in the air – they just won’t…
Sixteen countries, including Nepal, Bhutan and Mauritius, provide visa-free entry to Indian passport holders, the Rajya Sabha was informed on Tuesday. In a written reply to a question in Rajya Sabha, Minister of State for External Affairs V Muraleedharan said there are 43 countries which provide visa-on-arrival facility and there are 36 countries which provide…
You can run Android apps on Windows 10, but only if you have a Samsung phone. If you have a Windows 10 PC and an Android phone, the two devices will now work a lot more closely together. That’s because the new Your Phone feature will allow you to run Android apps in Windows 10.The…
In a normal year, more than 60 million visitors will flock to the Big Apple. If they’re craving Indian cuisine they are likely to end up in the eminent enclaves of Queens’ Jackson Heights or an area on Manhattan’s East Side known affectionately as Curry Hill. But New York has a way of overshadowing the cultural abundance…
While the government has not allowed scheduled commercial international flights to operate in India as of now, various other measures are being taken to help passengers enter and fly out of India. Apart from the Vande Bharat Mission, which has been repatriating Indian nationals for past couple of months, government has also tied up with…
Seeing matrimony as her road to wealth, a woman allegedly tied the knot with eight senior citizens in the last ten years and decamped with their cash and jewellery. The Bollywood film-like fraud came to fore after the ‘looteri dulhan’ recently duped a 66-year-old construction contractor from UP’s Ghaziabad of valuables worth Rs 15 lakh weeks…
