India

Mumbai: Snapping 10 consecutive weeks of decline, India’s foreign exchange (forex) reserves rose by USD 4.23 billion to USD 597.509 billion for the week ended May 20, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) data showed. This is the first increase in India’s forex reserves in the past 11 weeks. The forex reserves had declined by […]

Rajkot: Prime Minister Narendra Modi, keeping the election year in mind, smartly played Mahatma Gandhi’s Swadeshi card, reminding how the Sardar Sarovar project was completed against all odds. He was in Rajkot on Saturday to inaugurate a hospital. Modi said that before 2001, Gujarat had not seen development and growth, but it was due to […]

Warangal: A Border Security Force (BSF) jawan hailing from Marrilpalli village of Duggondi mandal in the district ‘committed suicide’ by shooting with his service weapon at the cantonment at Fazilka city of Punjab State on Friday. He was Kannenoina Ramulu Yadava (30), son of K Rajaiah alias Rajalu, and Komuramma. Ramulu was posted in the […]

Chandigarh: In a major decision, Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann-led Punjab government withdrew the security cover provided to 424 people in the state. Those whose security cover has been withdrawn included many retired police officers, religious leaders and political figures. Earlier in April, the Punjab government had ordered the withdrawal of security cover of 184 persons […]

Udhampur: As many as 25 passengers were injured after a bus coming from Jammu en route to Doda district overturned in the Battal Ballian area in the Udhampur district of Jammu and Kashmir, said police on Saturday. All the injured have been shifted to a district hospital in Udhampur while six were referred to a […]

New Delhi: The Income Tax Department (ITD) is conducting search operations on the premises of the Shree Anandhaas group of hotels in Tamil Nadu’s Coimbatore, in connection with an alleged tax evasion case, sources said on Saturday. The searches are being conducted at more than 40 placed including Vasavalli, Lakshmi Mill and Gandhipuram. The teams […]

New Delhi: Another plea challenging the Constitutional validity of certain sections of the Places of Worship (Special Provisions) Act 1991 was filed in the Supreme Court on Saturday stating that the said Act violates the principles of secularism. The plea, filed by a religious guru based in Mathura, Devkinandan Thakur, has challenged the constitutional validity […]

Koppal: While commenting on the resurfacing of the hijab issue in Dakshina Kannada district, Karnataka Education Minister B.C. Nagesh on Saturday categorically stated that only uniforms are allowed in school and college campuses across the state. He further said that the order of the Karnataka High Court must be followed regarding the issue. The Minister’s […]

Chennai: Tamil Nadu’s Ranipet district has created a world record with 20,000 volunteers collecting 186.914 metric tonnes of plastic waste in just three hours. With his, the district has surpassed Switzerland which collected 128 metric tonnes in the same time span. In a statement on Saturday, the Ranipet district administration said that 20,000 volunteers drawn […]

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday paid tributes to Hindutva ideologue V D Savarkar on his birth anniversary. Savarkar was born in 1883 in Maharashtra. “Respectful tributes to Veer Savarkar, the hardworking son of Maa Bharti, on his birth anniversary,” Modi said in a tweet in Hindi. Modi also shared a photo montage […]

New Delhi: India on Saturday recorded 2,685 fresh COVID-19 cases that took its infection tally to 4,31,50,215, while the number of active cases increased to 16,308, according to Union health ministry data. The death toll climbed to 5,24,572 with 33 fatalities, the data updated at 8 am stated. The active cases comprise 0.04 per cent […]

New Delhi: Breaking his silence on India plans, Elon Musk has said that Tesla will not manufacture cars in India unless it is allowed to sell and provide service to its electric vehicles. On Starlink, he said that SpaceX is still waiting for the Indian government’s approval. “Tesla will not put a manufacturing plant in […]

New Delhi: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Friday said that it is proposing to adopt a graded approach to the introduction of Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) in conformity with the objectives of monetary policy, financial stability and efficient operations of currency and payment systems. “The Reserve Bank proposes to adopt a graded […]

Kochi: Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Friday, while recalling the attacks against Christians in the country, said that last year 486 anti-christian attacks happened in India. He said this while mentioning the alleged hate speech of former MLA PC George and the BJP’s support for him. Last year, 486 anti-Christian attacks took place in […]

Hyderabad: Representatives of different farmers’ unions met Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin on Friday and invited him to attend the farmers’ public meeting, which is being conducted to demand the implementation of Telangana’s farmers’ friendly welfare programmes. The South India Farmers Unions Federation Chairman K Narasimham Naidu along with Tamil Nadu farmers’ unions’ leaders […]

New York: India has voted for a United States-sponsored resolution to strengthen sanctions on North Korea which was vetoed by China and Russia. The US launched the unsuccessful effort on Thursday to punish North Korea which had tested three missiles on Wednesday after US President Joe Biden had wrapped up a visit to South Korea […]

New Delhi: Former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi on Friday remembered India’s first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru on his death anniversary and described him as an institution-builder who strengthened our democratic roots, but lamented that the BJP has weakened democracy by bulldozing institutions. He said India now needs a “Bharat jodo” more than ever before. His […]

London: Super cyclones, the most intense form of tropical storms, are likely to have a much more devastating impact on people in India in the future due to climate change, according to a modelling study. Researchers from the University of Bristol in the UK examined the 2020 Super Cyclone Amphan – the most costly cyclone […]

New Delhi: Medical devices company Trivitron Healthcare on Friday announced it has developed the real-time PCR-based kit for the detection of monkeypox virus in India. Monkeypox, once endemic to countries in West and Central Africa, is spreading at a fast pace globally — with about 200 confirmed and more than 100 suspected cases in over 20 […]

Hassan: The conflict between man and wildlife has come to the fore in Karnataka once again. On Friday, an elephant was shot dead in an agricultural field near Alur taluk in Hassan district. Forest officials said that the elephant was a 20-year-old male. They are gathering information to trace the culprits. Sources said that about […]

Leh/New Delhi: Seven soldiers were killed and several others injured when a vehicle carrying them skidded off the road and fell into the Shyok river in Ladakh on Friday, Army officials said. The accident took place in the Tuktuk sector at around 9 am at a place which is around 25 kilometres from Thoise in […]

Varanasi: Jitendra Singh Vishen, head of the Vishwa Vaidik Sanatan Sangh (VVSS), which is among the petitioners in the Kashi Vishwanath-Gyanvapi complex case, has said their petition is based on a “British-era map”, which also formed the basis of a court case filed in 1936 by three Muslims who had demanded that the land be handed […]

New Delhi: India’s economic recovery from the pandemic shock has sustained in FY22 and the momentum is expected to broadly continue through the ongoing FY23, though with risks of downside from the geopolitical shock and its spillovers, said the RBI’s Annual Report for 2021-22 released on Friday. Despite the risks, the report said the recovery […]

Hyderabad: Following a news report about the IAS couple’s misuse of the Delhi government-run Thyagraj stadium, th Ministry of Home Affairs transferred both officers to Ladakh and Arunachal Pradesh, respectively, as ‘punishment’ for their actions. As the news came out, the social and traditional media space rejoiced at the ‘punishment’ meted out to them. However, […]