India

New Delhi: Edtech platform Unacademy, which laid off nearly 600 employees, contractual workers and educators – about 10 per cent of its 6,000-strong workforce across the group – said on Friday that it is focused on becoming profitable by the end of the fourth quarter (Q4) this year in its core business, while investing for […]

Patna: A gang of thieves managed to steal a 60-feet defunct iron bridge in Bihar’s Rohtas district in broad daylight – and with the help of unwitting local officials and villagers, an official said. The thieves, posing as officers of the state Irrigation Department, used gas cutters and earth mover machines to demolish the bridge […]

Mumbai: In a shocking development, a large number of agitating employees of the Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation (MSRTC) stormed at the home of Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) president Sharad Pawar, and pelted stones and shoes. Taking the Mumbai Police by surprise, the angry state transport staff including many women first staged a noisy demonstration […]

Bengaluru: Six schools situated on the outskirts of Bengaluru got bomb threats on Friday, said the police. Following this, the premises were emptied and the police rushed to the schools along with bomb disposal and dog squads and carried out search operations. The bomb threats were found on the official email ids of the schools. Initially, […]

New Delhi: A staggering 41 per cent of Indian employees left their jobs during the past year, indicating that the great reshuffle is here to stay as the last two years of the pandemic have fundamentally changed how we define the role of work in our lives, a new Microsoft report showed on Friday. Two […]

New Delhi: Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Sharad Yadav on Friday backed Rahul Gandhi for the president of the Congress party. Rahul Gandhi met Yadav, whose Loktrantik Janata Dal (LJD) party recently merged with the RJD, at the latter’s residence in the national capital today. When asked whether Rahul should be appointed as the Congress […]

Mumbai: While maintaining an accommodative stance, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Friday cut the real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth projection for the current Financial Year 2022-23 to 7.2 per cent, against the earlier projection of 7.8 per cent. The inflation forecast has also been hiked from 4.5 per cent to 5.7 per […]

New Delhi: Amidst a raging row in Karnataka where several outfits have demanded a ban on the use of mosques using loudspeakers to offer Azaan, former prime minister and Janata Dal (Secular) leader HD Deve Gowda has said that implementing such a policy would put an end to the rule of the Bharatiya Janata Party […]

New Delhi: India saw a single day rise of 1,109 new coronavirus infections taking the total tally of COVID-19 cases to 4,30,33,067, while the active cases have further declined to 11,492 , according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Friday. The death toll has climbed to 5,21,573 with 43 fresh fatalities, the data […]

Mumbai: Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Friday kept the benchmark interest rate unchanged at 4 per cent and decided to continue with its accommodative stance despite rising inflation. This is the 11th time in a row that the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) headed by RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das has maintained the status quo. RBI […]

Mumbai: Equity benchmarks Sensex and Nifty opened on a choppy note on Friday tracking slight gains in index majors Wipro, Tata Steel and RIL as investors remained cautious ahead of the RBI policy outcome. After surging 262 points in opening trade, the Sensex paired most of its gains to trade 7.57 points higher at 59,042.52. […]

New Delhi: Union Home Minister and Minister of Cooperation Amit Shah on Thursday emphasized on the need to accept Hindi as an alternative to English and not to local languages. The Home Minister’s remarks came when he was presiding over the 37th meeting of the Parliamentary Official Language Committee here on the Parliament premises. “Hindi […]

Sidhi (MP): A journalist and a few activists who were protesting against the arrest of an artist were detained and forced to strip down to their undergarments while in police custody in Madhya Pradesh’s Sidhi district. After the photos of the detained persons in underwear went viral on social media, two local police officials were […]

Bengaluru: Deep tech platform Instoried on Thursday said it has secured $200 mn commitment from global investment group GEM Global Yield, and will use the funds to expand operations globally and develop artificial intelligence (AI)-based content generation tools. Led by a woman founder, Sharmin Ali, Instoried uses AI to help people write original and more […]

New Delhi: Inflation and unemployment are the main concerns of Indians at the moment rather than a non-ending sequence of new variants thrown by the deadly Coronavirus. This was revealed in a comprehensive survey conducted by CVoter for IANS on the occasion of World Health Day on Thursday. The survey, conducted immediately after the reported […]

Bengaluru: After campaigning against the hijab, halal and banning Muslim traders in temple fairs, Hindu organisations in Karnataka now are planning a campaign to ban Muslim mango traders and sculptors from making idols of Hindu Gods. The Hindu organisations have also prepared to challenge the issue of halal certification in the country in the court. […]

Mumbai: Global digital services and product company InfoVision Inc on Thursday said it is planning to hire an additional 2,000 software engineers across its India development centres by 2023. The announcement came after the company experienced an exponential growth in FY22, InfoVision Inc said in a statement. Currently, InfoVision has its presence in five Indian […]

Washington: US President Joe Biden’s top economic adviser has said that the US warned India against partnering too closely with Russia following the invasion of Ukraine, BBC reported. “Our message to the Indian government is that the costs and consequences for them of moving into a more explicit strategic alignment with Russia will be significant […]

New Delhi: With another hike of Rs 2.5 per kilogram on Thursday, the price of Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) has zoomed by Rs 9.10 per kg in the last six days. Notably, the CNG prices were increased by the same amount yesterday also. With today’s hike, CNG in Delhi would now cost Rs 69.11 per […]

New Delhi: With 1,033 new coronavirus infections being reported in a day, India’s total tally of COVID-19 cases rose to 4,30,31,958, while the active cases dipped to 11,639, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Thursday. The death toll climbed to 5,21,530 with 43 fresh fatalities, the data updated at 8 am stated. […]

Mumbai: The Indian equities markets benchmark Sensex fell 393.01 points on Thursday dragged by selling pressure in consumer durables and tech stocks. The 30 stock S&P BSE Sensex was trading 393.01 points or 0.66 per cent lower at 59,217.40 points at 9:30 pm. The broader Nifty 50 of the National Stock Exchange was trading 91.40 […]

Kolkata: The construction of India’s first underwater tunnel in Kolkata under the Hooghly river for establishing metro connectivity between Howrah and Kolkata is underway and will be made fully functional by 2023. Of the 16.6-km-long east-west stretch, 520 metres will be under the river bed. The tunnel corridor is built 33 meters below the riverbed […]

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said that the government was working tirelessly to augment India’s health infrastructure. In a series of tweets on ‘World Health Day’, Modi said: “Greetings on World Health Day. May everyone be blessed with good health and wellness. Today is also a day to express gratitude to all […]

Bengaluru: Journalist and human rights activist Aakar Anil Patel on Wednesday alleged that he was stopped at the Bengaluru airport and prevented from boarding a flight to the United States. Patel said that he was prevented from travelling to the US despite a Gujarat court order granting him permission “specifically” for the said trip. The […]