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Patna: Ace poll strategist Prashant Kishor on Thursday put paid to speculations of him floating a new political platform stating that he is set to embark on a 3000 km ‘padyatra’ that will start from Mahatma Gandhi’s ashram in Bihar’s Champaran on October 2. He said he will launch a ‘Jan Surraj’ (Good Governance) campaign […]

Jodhpur: A total of 211 people have been arrested in connection with incidents of communal clashes in Rajasthan’s Jodhpur ahead of Eid celebrations that left several people injured while 19 cases have been registered, said police. Of the 211, 191 have been arrested under section 151 of the India Penal Code (IPC). Rajasthan Director General […]

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday permitted the release of Amitabh Bachchan-starrer Hindi movie ‘Jhund’ on the OTT platform on May 6 as it stayed the Telangana High Court status quo order. A bench of Justices Indira Banerjee and AS Bopanna stayed the interim order of status quo passed by the Telangana High Court […]

New Delhi: Home loans are set to become costlier after the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) decision to hike the policy repo rate by 0.40 per cent, experts said. In a bid to control inflation, RBI has announced a change in the key lending rates. On Wednesday, the apex bank announced a hike by 40 […]

Shahjahanpur: In a shocking incident, a 70-year-old mentally challenged woman was allegedly abducted and raped in a village in the Mirzapur area in Uttar Pradesh’s Shahjahanpur district. The woman was found lying unconscious and bleeding in a field by her family members on Wednesday night. The accused has been arrested. Additional Superintendent of Police (rural) […]

New Delhi: After concluding his three-day, three-nation tour of European countries – Germany, Denmark and France, Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in New Delhi on Thursday. As per government sources, he will immediately attend office and hold seven-eight meetings during the day and also chair an important review meeting for the preparedness for the monsoon […]

Mumbai: The rupee appreciated 29 paise to 76.11 against the US dollar in opening trade on Thursday amid weakening of the American currency in the overseas market. At the interbank foreign exchange, the rupee opened at 76.17 against the American dollar, then gained further ground to quote at 76.11, registering a rise of 29 paise […]

New Delhi: India logged 3,275 new coronavirus infections in a day, pushing the number of active cases to 19,719 and the overall tally to 4,30,91,393, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated Thursday. The data released at 8 am also showed that 55 fatalities — 52 of them from Kerala alone — were reported […]

Mumbai: Equity benchmark indices opened in green on Thursday with Sensex up by 428.51 points and Nifty by 135.00 points. At 9:29 AM, the BSE Sensex was up by 428.51 points or 0.77 per cent at 56,097.54. BSE Limited, also known as the Bombay Stock Exchange, is the oldest stock exchange in Asia, and also […]

New Delhi: Nestled among the two of the world’s mightiest mountain ranges– the Great Himalayas and the Karakoram– Ladakh is the Shangrilla on the earth. Lying at an altitude ranging from about 9,000 to 25,000 feet, the cold desert of Ladakh is undoubtedly a great summer getaway one can have. At the western edge of […]

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi paid visit to France on Wednesday on his way back from the second India-Nordic Summit in Copenhagen. In Paris, Prime Minister Modi and French President Emmanuel Macron held meeting in one-on-one and delegation level formats where they discussed wide range of issues including situation in Ukraine and Afghanistan. The two […]

Telangana comes a long way from 2014 when the conditions in State were similar to Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh

Indian workers facing burnout, mundane work and labour shortage

Hyderabad: For Instance, SBI now offers home loans at around 6.85 per cent. For a loan amount of Rs 30 lakh and tenure of 20 years, the monthly EMI now is about Rs 22,990 per month. The total interest payable over the loan term will be about Rs 25,17,510 and the total payments made over […]

Kolkata: Senior Congress leader and former Union Finance Minister, P. Chidambaram, who is a leading lawyer too, on Wednesday faced the ire of a group of Congress-affiliated lawyers within the Calcutta High Court premises, as he appeared to argue a case on behalf of the state’s Trinamool Congress government against his party. He came to […]

Patna: A marriage in Naugachia block in Bhagalpur district hit the headlines when a groom measuring 36 inches in height tied the knot with a 34 inches tall bride on Tuesday night. This marriage became the centre of attraction as a large number of uninvited people assembled at the venue to take a selfie with […]

Hyderabad: Meghnad Desai Academy of Economics (MDAE), Mumbai, has invited applications for admissions into its one-year postgraduate programme in Data Science & Finance. Any graduate with minimum 50 per cent or equivalent score can apply for the programme that has a fee structure of Rs.4.45 lakh and GST. The admission process will include three steps: […]

Mumbai: Vistas Media Capital will launch its first metaverse experience in VistaVerse in association with Lotus Meta Entertainment, and in partnership with Raaj Kamal Films International’s much-awaited movie, Vikram starring Kamal Haasan, Vijay Sethupathi and Fahadh Faasil, music by Anirudh, directed by Lokesh Kanagaraj and produced by Kamal Haasan and R Mahendran. VistaVerse, the soon […]

Hyderabad: India is the world’s 8th most biodiverse region. Our country encompasses a wide range of biomes: desert, high mountains, highlands, tropical and temperate forests, swamplands, plains, grasslands, areas surrounding rivers, as well as an island archipelago. It hosts four biodiversity hotspots: the Himalayas, the Western Ghats, the Indo-Burma region and Sundaland. These hotspots have […]

Lalitpur: A 13-year-old girl, who was allegedly raped by four people, was raped again by the Station House Officer (SHO) of a police station here where she had gone to file a case, officials said on Wednesday. The police have arrested three of the accused after an FIR was registered against five people, including the […]

Narayanpur: A District Reserve Guard (DRG) head constable was killed in an encounter with Naxals in Chhattisgarh’s insurgency-hit Narayanpur district on Wednesday, police said. The skirmish took place around 8.15 am at a forest in Tulargufa-Mungari area under Chhotedongar police station limits when a joint team of various security forces was out on a search […]

Mumbai: In a surprise move, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Wednesday increased the policy repo rate by 40 basis points to 4.40 per cent with immediate effect. Addressing a press conference, RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das said the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has unanimously voted to increase the policy repo rate by 40 basis […]

Mumbai: The Indian stock market’s benchmark Sensex was trading 668 points down in the afternoon session on Wednesday dragged by heavy selling pressure in heavyweights Reliance Industries and HDFC Bank. The 30 stock S&P BSE Sensex was trading 668.06 points or 1.17 per cent down at 56,307.93 points at 1.11 pm against its previous session’s […]

New Delhi: The Press Club India (PCI) has landed in a controversy after The Kashmir Files director Vivek Agnohotri accused it of denying booking to him for a press conference. Agnihotri said his booking was first cancelled by the Foreign Correspondent Club (FCC) allegedly over objections raised by some of the members and later the […]