Month: March 2021

The model, which is priced from Rs 3.15 crore (ex-showroom) onwards, has been the mainstay of the company in India ever since it hit the roads, contributing over 50 per cent of sales.

India is sending a consignment of 1,000 metric tonnes of rice and 100,000 hydroxychloroquine tablets to Madagascar.

The humanitarian assistance is being delivered on-board Indian Naval Ship Jalashwa, which will leave with the food and medical assistance on March 3.

The anecdote is part of a biographical note on Madilgekar that features in a new encyclopaedia on Maharashtra’s visual art.

Asia has, for the first time in perhaps hundreds of years, more billionaires than the rest of the world combined. Wealth creation is moving to Asia,” said Hurun Report chairman and chief researcher Rupert Hoogewerf.

In a letter to the artist, Asit Kumar Haldar, Abanindranath Tagore asked him not to be a gurumoshai and frighten students when teaching in “Bolpur”: “Remember, to teach birds one must turn into a bird too.” By Bolpur, Abanindranath meant Kala Bhavana, the fine arts school that Rabindranath Tagore had begun in Santiniketan. 

Kolkata

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the new director-general of the World Trade Organization (WTO) describes herself as a pragmatic person. She sets out her agenda in her first interview after becoming the first woman and the first African to bag the top job at the multilateral body.

Anbil Dharmalingam Agriculture College and Research Institute (ADACRI) in Trichy has developed a new paddy variety TRY 4, to help farmers who are unable to achieve good yield due to salinity in their agriculture lands.

Indian born siblings Anush Kadian and Vish Kadian, aged 26 and 27, share that they have received funding of £3.2 million or 32 crore rupees from investors for their start-up.