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New Delhi: The single-day rise in new coronavirus infections in the country was recorded over 7,000 after 99 days, registering around 39 per cent jump in daily cases, while the daily positivity rate crossed 2 per cent after 111 days, the Union Health Ministry said on Thursday. A total of 7,240 infections were recorded in […]
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Mumbai: The rupee slipped 10 paise to 77.78 against the US dollar in early trade on Thursday, as elevated crude oil prices and persistent foreign capital outflows weighed on investor sentiments. At the interbank foreign exchange, the rupee opened at 77.74 against the American dollar, then lost ground to quote at 77.78, registering a fall […]
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New Delhi: A Delhi court will on Thursday deliver the verdict on the appeal seeking restoration of the Hindu and Jain temples and the deities at the Qutub Minar complex. Earlier on May 24, after a detailed hearing in the matter, Additional District Judge Nikhil Chopra had reserved the order in the appeal challenging the rejection […]
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Mumbai: Home, auto and other loan EMIs will rise after the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Wednesday raised the key interest rate by 50 basis points (bps), the second increase in five weeks, to rein in a rise in prices that was seen continuing to hurt consumers in the near term. The increase in […]
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New Delhi: The BJP thinktank in Delhi, which carefully guides and coordinates the party political activity, has been stunned into a silence with the avalanche of criticism from the Gulf countries over the anti-Islam comments made by its national spokesperson Nupur Sharma. The thinktank carefully coordinates effective dissemination of the party line of thinking on […]
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Bengaluru: Biocon Chief Kiran Majumdar-Shaw once again on Wednesday slammed the authorities for the worst condition of pothole-ridden Bengaluru city roads. “Shocking and shameful”, said Kiran Majumdar-Shaw while commenting on a stretch of pothole-ridden roads in Bengaluru, known as the Silicon Valley of India. She was reacting to the post shared by a photojournalist of […]
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New Delhi: In a case of heinous corporal punishment, a 5-year old girl was allegedly tied with a rope and left to suffer in the scorching heat in Delhi for not doing homework. As per the information, the minor is a student of class 1 and lives with her family in Tukhmirpur in Delhi’s Karawal […]
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New Delhi: Airlines must de-board any passenger before departure if they refuse to wear face mask inside an aircraft even after being warned, aviation regulator DGCA said on Wednesday. Besides, airport operators must take help of the local police and security agencies and levy fines on people not wearing face masks, the Directorate General of […]
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Houston (Texas): After creating waves at Cannes 2022, R Madhavan’s directorial ‘Rocketry: The Nambi Effect’ has now reached the US for a 12-day promotional tour. Recently, while Madhavan and Nambi Narayanan were promoting the film in Stafford, Texas, Mayor Cecil Willis declared that 3rd June will be celebrated as Nambi Narayanan Day. Not only that, […]
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New Delhi: India is set to deploy drones to gather atmospheric data that is currently collated by sending sensors through weather balloons released from at least 55 locations across the country twice every day. The sensors embedded in a radiosonde, which is a telemetry instrument carried by a weather balloon, record atmospheric pressure, temperature, wind […]
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Hyderabad: Actress Kangana Ranaut, who is known for her controversial remarks, is once again in headlines as she calls Qatar Airways CEO Akbar Al Baker “Idiot of a man,” based on a parody video. A spoof video of the CEO commenting on an Indian Twitter user’s boycott call is going viral on the internet. Following […]
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Toronto: Indians will benefit the most from changes introduced by Canada to its super visa programme for parents and grandparents. Under the changes announced by Immigration Minister Sean Fraser on Tuesday, parents and grandparents coming to Canada can now stay here for up to five years per entry. The changes will kick in from July […]
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New Delhi: Taking into account the increase in prices since the housing loan limits were last revised and considering the customer needs, central bank Reserve Bank of India decided to increase the existing limits on individual housing loans by the cooperative banks. Accordingly, the limits for Tier I or Tier II urban cooperative banks shall […]
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Mumbai: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Wednesday proposed to allow the linking of credit cards to the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) platform. After the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meeting RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das announced that the implementation will start with the indigenous RuPay credit cards. “At present, UPI facilitates transactions by linking savings/current […]
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New Delhi: Over 90 vehicles, including 10 cars, were gutted in a massive fire that broke out in a metro parking lot in the national capital on Wednesday morning, an official said. Fire in Jamia Nagar’s electric motor parking, 11 fire tenders on the spot#JamiaNagar #electricmotorparking #Fire #जामियानगर pic.twitter.com/VGE9FJQbCU — city andolan (@city_andolan) June 8, 2022 […]
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New Delhi: In a shocking incident, a man was stabbed to death in Delhi’s Anand Parbat area by a group of boys after a scuffle broke out over Rs 10 for a cigarette. The deceased in the case was identified as Vijay while the accused were identified as Ravi, Jatin, Sonu Kumar and Ajay. A […]
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New Delhi: Daily coronavirus infections in India were recorded above 5,000 after 93 days taking the total tally of COVID-19 cases to 4,31,90,282, while the active cases rose to 28,857, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Wednesday. A total of 5,233 infections were recorded in a span of 24 hours, while the […]
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Mumbai: The rupee strengthened by 9 paise to 77.69 against the US dollar in opening trade on Wednesday, ahead of the Reserve Bank of India’s monetary policy decision. A weak trend in domestic equities, surging crude oil prices and unabated foreign fund outflows capped the appreciation bias of the rupee, forex dealers said. The RBI’s […]
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Mumbai: Indian stock market’s benchmark Sensex opened 205 points down on Wednesday as the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) increased the policy repo rate by 50 basis points to 4.9 per cent. The 30 stock S&P BSE Sensex fell 205.27 points or 0.37 per cent to close at 54,902.07 points at 10:30 am. The broader […]
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Mumbai: The Reserve Bank of India on Wednesday retained its growth projection at 7.2 per cent for the current fiscal on the back of improvement in urban demand and gradual recovery in rural India. Unveiling the third monetary policy for the current fiscal, RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das said the Indian economy remained resilient, and the […]
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New Delhi: Al-Qaeda in Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) has issued a chilling warning of carrying out ‘suicide bombings’ in Delhi, Mumbai, Uttar Pradesh and Gujarat in a bid to take avenge of the insult to the Prophet Mohammed. “The saffron terrorists should now await their end in Delhi, Bombay, UP and Gujarat. They should find refuge […]
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Mumbai: Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Wednesday raised the interest rate by 50 basis points to a two-year high of 4.9 per cent as it doubled down to tame inflation that has surged in the last couple of months. The rate hike comes on the back of a 40 bps increase effected by RBI […]
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Latur: AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi said that the Bharatiya Janata Party took action against Nupur Sharma only when “something happened in Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain”. “After 10 days PM Narendra Modi said to suspend (Nupur Sharma). No action was taken when we were saying, raising the issue. They acted when something happened in Qatar, Saudi […]
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New York: An Indian origin patient was among those who had a “miracle” cure using a cancer medication that is being tried out by a research centre here achieving an unprecedented healing rate when all 14 patients in the trial had their cancers disappear. “It’s a miracle”, Nisha Varughese said about the immunotherapy drug’s efficacy in […]
