Planning a trip to Germany this year? Good luck with thatGermany’s aviation industry is facing challenges with reduced flight services and rising airfares, partly due to increased taxes and fees. ...
09 Jan, 2025, 11.32 AM IST
Oil’s hot summer is ending, posing risks for majors and OPEC+Oil prices declined over 10% from July highs due to China's economic issues and anticipated American supply increases. OPEC+ confronts a to...
26 Aug, 2024, 12.00 PM IST
China is raising bullet train fares as debts and costs balloonChina raises bullet train fares to address rising costs and debts, impacting public services, state-owned enterprises, and international tr...
14 May, 2024, 12.40 AM IST
How Kim's meeting with Putin at Russian spaceport may hint at his space and weapons ambitionsNorth Korean leader Kim Jong Un and Russian President Vladimir Putin have met at a rocket launch facility in Siberia for their first summit...
14 Sep, 2023, 11.36 AM IST
China defends military ship's planned visit to India's neighbour Sri LankaIndia worries that the Chinese-built and leased port of Hambantota will be used by China as a military base in India's backyard. The $1.5 b...
29 Jul, 2022, 06.41 PM IST
North Korea suggests it may resume nuclear, missile tests; slams 'hostile' U.S.North Korean leader Kim Jong Un convened a meeting of the powerful politburo of the ruling Workers' Party on Wednesday to discuss "importan...
20 Jan, 2022, 01.30 PM IST
View: India’s science diplomacy could take centre stage in 2021To start with a safe prediction, India’s remarkable success at managing the pandemic’s impact on health and economy will continue, even as ...
09 Feb, 2021, 08.00 AM IST
View: The powerful forces that will propel growth in the next decadeA century later, once the Covid-19 pandemic begins to fade away, we are likely to see another such decade: the Roaring Twenties of the 21st...
18 Dec, 2020, 10.23 AM IST
China's Silk Road push is fuelling India's own regional ambitionsPlans to revive the 1,360-km crossing to link NE with Thailand and beyond, mark the next phase in the jostle between New Delhi and Beijing.
09 Aug, 2017, 03.56 PM IST
PM Narendra Modi invites US CEOs to invest in India, says GST will be a game changerIn a round table interaction with the likes of Tim Cook, Sunder Pichai and Jeff Bezos, he listed out steps taken by his government in the l...
26 Jun, 2017, 12.53 AM IST
Is Budget 2017 the most difficult one till date?Union budgets usually have visibility of economic performance, and a tentative idea of how the last quarter of the fiscal year is shaping u...
25 Jan, 2017, 03.10 PM IST
- Google Doodle honours inventor of worldwide standard time
New Delhi, Jan 7 (IANS) Google has honoured Sandford Fleming, a Canadian inventor and engineer of Scottish birth known for his invention of...
07 Jan, 2017, 11.10 AM IST
China has turned Tibetan Plateau into vast military zone: CGTCChina has turned the Tibetan Plateau into a "vast military zone" deploying a large number of troops with most of them along the Indian sub-...
04 Nov, 2015, 09.19 PM IST
China opens first leg of high-speed railway in XinjiangChina opened first stretch of high-speed railway in western region of Xinjiang to promote economic development in hinterlands and bind them...
16 Nov, 2014, 03.40 PM IST
- Israel mulling 350 km Asia-Europe rail link
Israel is mulling to build a 350 km rail link between its Mediterranean & Red Sea coasts that could compete with the Suez Canal.
29 Jan, 2012, 08.37 PM IST