India resumes issuing visas to Canadians
India will reopen visa services for Canadians, its embassy in Ottawa announced on Wednesday, in a move that might ease tensions in a high-profile dispute over the killing of a Sikh separatist on Canadian soil.
Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar had on Sunday insisted on increased security for India’s missions in Canada.
Festive season can improve economy
Indian consumer spending during this year’s festive season will be slightly better than in 2022, said 25 out of 33 economists polled by Reuters.
The survey data, taken together with expectations for 6.3 per cent growth this fiscal year and next, suggest that prospects for a Reserve Bank of India interest rate cut are still a long way off.
Police probe trafficking angle in Swiss woman’s murder
The Delhi Police are probing money and human trafficking angles in the murder of a Swiss woman, whose body was found in west Delhi’s Tilak Nagar last Friday.
The police initially found Rs2 crores ($330,000) at the house of Gurpreet Singh, who is facing charges in the case. They later found more money and photos and videos of him with different women, suspecting him to be involved in human trafficking.
Singh was arrested a day after the victim’s decomposed body was found near a school.
Film review trolls charged
Two weeks after the Kerala High Court directed the state police chief to take a closer look at “mischievous” film reviews on social media, the Ernakulam Central police on Wednesday registered a case and charged nine persons.
The police acted on a complaint by film director Ubaini Ebrahim after he found that the social media was flooded with negative reviews of his recently released Malayalam film Rahel Makan Kora.
Direct Bengaluru-Singapore flights launched
Air India started a non-stop service between Bengaluru and Singapore on Sunday.
The new service will depart Bengaluru at 10.30pm and reach Singapore by 5.30am the next day. The return flight will take off from Singapore at 6.40am and land in Bengaluru at 8.35am.
The flight will have 170 economy and 12 business class seats and operate on Mondays, Thursdays, Fridays and Sundays.
Delhi unveils major sewage plant to clean Yamuna river
The national capital’s largest sewage plant, which will treat the waste water that goes directly into the Yamuna river, will begin trial runs next month.
The plant, constructed in Okhla, is aimed at pumping out 564 million litres of treated water into the Yamuna river daily, starting Nov 15. The plant is touted to be one of the biggest sewage treatment plants in Asia.
Muzumdar named India women’s cricket team head coach
Amol Muzumdar, a former Mumbai batter, has been named head coach of the Indian women’s cricket team.
The position had been vacant since December 2022, when Ramesh Powar was abruptly removed as part of the cricket board’s “restructuring module” two months ahead of the T20 World Cup in South Africa.
