India

Mumbai: Shiv Sena President Uddhav Thackeray has come back as the Chief Editor of the party newspapers — the multi-edition Marathi ‘Saamana’ and the Hindi language ‘Dopahar Ka Saamana’ — here on Friday. Thackeray replaces his wife Rashmi who was named as the Editor around 32 months ago when he took over as Maharashtra Chief […]

Hyderabad: Netizens bombarded the Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the BJP government at the Centre on social media over their failure to implement electoral promises. With the hashtag “#KyaHuaTeraWada”, Twitterati raised issues from housing for all to bringing back black money, ‘Acche Din’ to inflation and unemployment to doubling farmers’ income among numerous others. Training […]

New Delhi: Meta (formerly Facebook) has cracked down on a cyber espionage operation linked to state-sponsored bad actors in Pakistan that targeted people in India, including military personnel and government officials, with various methods like honey trapping and infiltrating their devices with malware. Apart from India, the group of hackers in Pakistan — known in […]

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will chair the seventh meeting of the Governing Council of NITI Aayog on Sunday (August 7). The meeting will be at Rashtrapati Bhawan Cultural Centre here. The agenda of the meeting, interalia, includes crop diversification and achieving self-sufficiency in oilseeds and pulses and agri-communities; implementation of the National Education […]

Hyderabad: A war might be tearing both their countries apart, but a Russian man and a Ukrainian woman have proved that nothing can come in between true love. #WATCH | Himachal Pradesh: Sergei Novikov, a Russian national tied the knot with his Ukrainian girlfriend Elona Bramoka in a traditional Hindu ceremony in Dharamshala on August […]

New Delhi: Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation Ltd. (MMRCL) on Friday told the Supreme Court that no tree cutting has been carried out in Aarey forest in Mumbai, rather some weeds and branches were removed. Senior advocate Chander Uday Singh, representing the petitioners, contended before a bench headed by Justice U.U. Lalit that tree cutting has […]

Bengaluru: A woman was arrested in Bengaluru for killing her four-year-old mentally challenged daughter by throwing her from the fourth floor of a building, police said on Friday. The accused, a dentist, thought that her child, who was also unable to speak, had proved to be an impediment to her progress in career, according to the […]

Mumbai: The Reserve Bank on Friday decided to expand the scope of Internal Ombudsman framework by including Credit Information Companies (CICs) with a view to strengthening grievance redressal system. The Reserve Bank-Integrated Ombudsman Scheme (RB-IOS) has improved the customer grievance redressal mechanism. The turnaround time of grievance redressal under RB-IOS has declined considerably, RBI said […]

Mumbai: The Indian rupee appreciated 26 paise during the afternoon trade at 79.20 against the US dollar by 12.37 p.m. on Friday, as against 79.46 close on the previous trading session. In the morning trade, the rupee had appreciated more than 50 paise, but as soon as crude oil prices rises the gains has reduced. […]

Mumbai: The benchmark indices rose during the afternoon trade on Friday, after falling marginally the previous day as 50 basis points rate hike by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) was in line with the market expectations and inflows from foreign investors. By 1 p.m., Sensex was trading up 175.73 points or 0.30 per cent at […]

Mumbai/Srinagar: In a major milestone on the world’s highest single-arch railway bridge over Chenab River, the overarch deck launch is scheduled for completion within a week, with a ‘golden joint’ linking the two sides, in the Union Territory of Jammu & Kashmir, excited officials said here on Friday. The 1.315 kms long bridge — which […]

New Delhi: Several Congress parliamentarians, including Rahul Gandhi, were on Friday detained by the Delhi Police after they carried out a protest march against the Central government in between the Parliament House and Rashtrapati Bhavan in the national capital. Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, while speaking to the media persons before getting detained, accused the Delhi […]

Yadgir: Six members of a family, including a baby, were killed during a head on collision between a car and lorry in Karnataka’s Yadgir district. The accident took place late Thursday night near Gurmitkal town. The deceased have been identified as Mohammad Majar Hussain (79), Noor Jahan Begum (70), Mohammad Wajid Hussain (39), Heena Begam (30), […]

New Delhi: Rahul Gandhi on Friday alleged that all the institutions in the country are being controlled by the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). While launching an attack on the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), he said that even “Hitler used to win elections”. “Hitler had also won elections, he too used to win elections. How did […]

Mumbai: HDFC Ltd has announced the completion of the USD 1.1 billion Syndicated Social Loan Facility for the financing of affordable housing in India. The loan has been priced 90 basis points over Secured Overnight Financing Rate (SOFR). “Affordable housing is a critical component of quality infrastructure as also a growth driver for the real […]

Hyderabad: The TRS extended it’s support to the Opposition parties’ candidate Margaret Alva in the ensuing polls to the Vice-President’s post. The party President and Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao took a decision in this regard, the party secretary general K Keshava Rao said in a release. Accordingly, all the 16 TRS MPs will cast […]

Mumbai: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Friday raised the benchmark lending rate by 50 basis points to 5.40 per cent to tame inflation. With the latest hike, the repo rate or the short term lending rate at which banks borrow has crossed the pre-pandemic level of 5.15 per cent. This is the third […]

New Delhi: With 20,551 new coronavirus infections being reported in a day, India’s tally of COVID-19 cases rose to 4,41,07,588, while the active cases declined to 1,35,364, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated on Friday. The death toll climbed to 5,26,600 with 70 new fatalities, the data updated at 8 am stated. The […]

Lucknow: The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad high court has ruled that victims under the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act are entitled to compensation only on conviction of the accused and not merely on filing of FIR or submission of the charge sheet in the court. The high court also ordered to […]

Balrampur (Uttar Pradesh) : A man who had come to attend the last rites of his brother who died of snakebite was killed after being bitten by a snake in his sleep, police said on Thursday. Govind Mishara (22) attended the last rites of his brother Arvind Mishra (38) held in Bhawanipur village on Wednesday, […]

Hyderabad: The rise in global population, climate change, poverty, poor harvest, and escalating conflicts between countries are a few factors contributing to food insecurity. To overcome the problem of food insecurity, scientifically advanced countries are striving hard to find alternate ways to increase crop production. In their effort to do so, scientists seem to have […]

New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) over the last eight years has carried out 3,010 raids and attached proceeds of crime worth Rs 99,356 crore under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA). Union Minister of State for Finance Pankaj Chaudhary, during the ongoing Monsoon Session, informed the Rajya Sabha that since the National Democratic […]

New Delhi: As COVID cases have shown a rising trend across the country, an expert on Thursday said the majority of cases have mild symptoms. Senior Pulmonologist at Apollo Hospital in Delhi, Dr Nikhil Modi said the COVID cases are definitely rising but symptoms are mild. “The COVID cases are definitely on the rise, Delhi […]

New Delhi: Telecom operator Bharti Airtel will start rolling out 5G services later this month as it signed requisite agreements with Ericsson, Nokia and Samsung. At the recently held much-awaited spectrum auction for 5G services by the Department of Telecom, Airtel bid for and acquired 19867.8 MHZ spectrum in 900 MHz, 1800 MHz, 2100 MHz, […]