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Monday, November 24, 2025
TopicEiffel Tower

Topic: Eiffel Tower

Eiffel Tower shuts as staff goes on strike, a big blow before Paris Olympics

The strike against the financial management of Eiffel Tower, comes as Paris prepares to host the 2024 Summer Olympics and will feature metal from the tower in the winners' medals.

Man attacks tourists near Eiffel Tower, 1 dead, 2 injured

The 26-year-old, a French national, had been sentenced to 4 years in prison in 2016 for planning another attack and was on the French security services’ watch list.

Eiffel Tower reopens after 104-day shutdown due to coronavirus

The lifts that usually whisk visitors up the 324-meter tall wrought-iron Eiffel Tower will remain closed and people have to take the stairs.

On Camera

Worker exploitation powers the firework industry in Tamil Nadu’s Sivakasi

For an industry globally classified as hazardous, protections such as health insurance and a provident fund for workers are necessities. In Sivakasi, they remain elusive.

172 countries & counting, India looks to hit new record in rice exports. But there’s a flip side

The industry forecasts exports are set to grow 16% in 2025-26, boosted by surplus domestic production and a drive to push into 26 underserved global markets with strong potential.

India and France to jointly manufacture HAMMER air-to-surface missile

Indigenisation level will progressively increase up to 60 percent with key sub-assemblies, electronics and mechanical parts being manufactured locally.

A tribute to Tejas. India’s delay culture is the real enemy in the skies

It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.