MALE, Maldives (AP) — The president of the Maldives said Saturday that his country’s small size doesn’t give anyone the license to bully it, in a sign of defiance toward India, the archipelago state’s giant neighbor. President Mohamed Muizzu, speaking to the media on his return from India’s regional rival China, said the Maldives is […]
Hyundai’s India subsidiary has fixed a bug that exposed its customers’ personal information in the South Asian market. TechCrunch reviewed a portion of the exposed data that included the registered owner name, mailing address, email address, and phone number of Hyundai Motor India customers who have serviced their vehicles at any of the company’s authorized […]
Russian oil cargoes are still sailing via the Red Sea to get to India, according to S&P Global. Iran-backed Houthi rebels have been attacking commercial ships in the Red Sea since November. Many commercial shipping lines and vessels have rerouted from the Red Sea to avoid getting caught in the attacks. Attacks by Houthi rebels […]
Semafor Signals Insights from Mint, Indian Express, and India Today NEWS A tourism-related diplomatic feud between India and the Maldives escalated on Monday as a major Indian travel agency stopped flight bookings to the archipelagic nation and India summoned the Maldivian envoy while promoting its domestic beach destinations. The dispute stems from antagonistic comments made […]
NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s top court on Monday restored life prison sentences for 11 Hindu men who raped a Muslim woman during deadly religious rioting two decades ago and asked the convicts to surrender to the authorities within two weeks. The Hindu men were convicted in 2008 of rape and murder. They were released […]
MALE, Maldives (AP) — The Maldives president on Sunday suspended three of his deputy ministers for posting derogatory comments against India, its closest neighbor and the source of much of the tourism that drives the islands’ economy. President Mohamed Muizzu suspended until further notice Malsha Shareef, Mariyam Shiuna and Abdulla Mahzoon Maajid for their posts […]
By Krishn Kaushik NEW DELHI (Reuters) -Indian Navy commandos have boarded a hijacked Liberian-flagged vessel in the Arabian Sea and are now carrying out “sanitisation” operations, the navy said on Friday, without elaborating. An Indian Navy warship intercepted the MV Lila Norfolk on Friday afternoon, less than a day after the navy received news that […]
India has deployed its navy to aid the crew of a ship that was hijacked off Somalia’s coast. The vessel has 15 Indian crew members onboard, Indian media reports say. The crew sent a distress call to a UK marine agency, saying that “five to six unauthorised armed persons” had boarded the ship east of […]
This story was first published on the Benzinga India portal. Tesla Inc. (NASDAQ: TSLA) is considering a cost-effective solution for its planned entry-level car, specifically aimed at the price-sensitive Indian market. The company is mulling over the use of smaller, quick-charging batteries, a strategy already implemented in China, to significantly lower the vehicle’s price. According to a report […]
India sent its XPoSat X-ray observatory into orbit on New Year’s Day, in what was the first launch of 2024 worldwide. A Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) lifted off from the Satish Dhawan Space Center at 9:10 a.m. Indian Standard Time on Jan. 1 (0340 GMT, or 10:40 p.m. EST on Dec. 31). The X-ray […]
In 2023, India introduced a series of regulations and tweaked policies that borrowed from Europe’s antitrust approach and Chinese-style government surveillance, alarming executives and investors in the world’s most populous market. Additional regulations are on the horizon in 2024 as New Delhi continues a regulatory shift to more tightly govern the tech sector. Last year, […]
Jan. 1 (UPI) — India’s space agency successfully launched a rocket Monday from Sriharikota spaceport to help scientists improve their “knowledge of black holes.” “2024 lifted off majestically,” the Indian Space Research Organization wrote Monday in a post on X, formerly Twitter. “XPoSat health is normal. Power generation has commenced.” The launch is only the […]