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TOKYO: Prime Minister Narendra Modi appreciated SoftBank Corporation’s significant contribution, especially in the startup sector in India during a meeting with its founder and CEO Masayoshi Son on Monday in Tokyo. PM Modi and Son also discussed SoftBank’s future participation in India in key areas such as technology, energy and finance. The 65-year-old business magnet’s […]

  COLOMBO: India once again came to the rescue of crisis-hit Sri Lanka as it handed over aid worth 2 billion in Sri Lankan rupees. Indian High Commissioner to Sri Lanka Gopal Baglay handed over a large consignment of humanitarian assistance which included 9,000 metric tonnes (MT) of rice, 50 MT of milk powder and […]

  TOKYO: Prime Minister Narendra Modi gets his ‘Tokyo business’ going with back-to-back meetings with Japanese industry leaders on Monday. In his meeting with NEC chairman Nobuhiro Endo, PM Modi discussed the company’s role in India’s telecommunications sector. “The Prime Minister appreciated NEC’s role in India’s telecommunication sector, especially in undertaking Chennai-Andaman & Nicobar Islands […]

DEHRADUN: Uttarakhand Bhartiya Janta Party unit has shared a list of 10 names, including two former state Chief Ministers, to the central leadership for the Rajya Sabha seat which will fall vacant in July this year. Uttarakhand has a total of eight seats in both the houses of the Parliament of India – five seats […]

  DEHRADUN: Nawab Tyagi has accompanied his ‘parents’, Vikas and Himshi Tyagi to religious places since he was just six months old. There was never a fuss. But a reel of the four-year-old seeking blessings from Nandi, Lord Shiva’s ride, in front of the revered Kedarnath shrine had drawn ire from a section of the […]