India

New Delhi: The increase in the number of people dying prematurely from exposure to air pollution was highest in cities in South Asia. In India it caused an estimated 1,00,000 premature deaths in Mumbai, Bangalore, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Chennai, Surat, Pune and Ahmedabad, according to a study. Around 1,80,000 avoidable deaths over 14 years in fast-growing […]

Srinagar: A Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorist has been killed in an ongoing encounter in South Kashmir’s Kulgam district, police said on Saturday. The police said that a search is also continuing at the encounter site in Chakisamad area. Earlier, a joint team of the police and security forces cordoned off the area and launched a search […]

New Delhi: India reported a single-day rise of 1,150 new COVID-19 cases, taking the infection tally in the country to 4,30,34,217, while the count of active cases fell to 11,365, according to the Union Health Ministry on Saturday. The death toll due to the disease has climbed to 5,21,656 with 83 daily fatalities being reported, […]

Washington: President Joe Biden believes that the US-India partnership is the most important relationship the United States has in the world, said White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki on Friday (local time). Speaking about the India-US 2+2 dialogue under the Biden administration next week, the White House Press Secretary said that the President expects that […]

Gonda: The body of a minor girl, who went missing from her house four days ago, was recovered from a car parked in self-styled godman and rape convict Asaram’s ashram in Uttar Pradesh’s Gonda district on Friday. The car had been parked in the ashram premises in Bimour village of Nagar Kotwali area since past […]

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 […]