New Delhi: Retail inflation in India rose to 6.93 percent in July, mainly on account of higher prices of food items, data released by the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation showed on Thursday.
The recent hooch tragedy in Punjab has triggered speculations of another factional feud within the ruling Congress, days after the grand old party succeeded in putting an end to the month-long crisis in neighbouring Rajasthan.
The Madras Music Academy in Chennai has announced that Margazhi concerts on Carnatic music that are scheduled for December this year would be held online, The News Minute reported.
According to the report, N Murali, the president of The Madras Mus...
Radheshyam Prasad, 63, a resident of flood-hit Baikunthpur block in Gopalganj district in Bihar, spends his time resting at a makeshift bamboo structure under a polythene sheet as his home remains flooded.
On July 26, a group of social workers cam...
In a big new push for tax reforms Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday launched a platform on Thursday (Aug 13) at 11 am to honour the honest taxpayers of the country with “Transparent Taxation – Honoring The Honest”.
Launching the platform Tr...
India observed a trend of decline in fuel consumption in July, after a recovery in the previous month, according to the government data. The overall fuel consumption in the country declined by 3.74 per cent in July compared to June. This can be attri...
Lahore: A Pakistani court has ruled that a Sikh girl, who allegedly married a Muslim man against her family's will, was not a 'minor' and allowed her to go with her husband or any place of her choice, sparking tension between the two communities.
In a latest ‘revolt’ to Centre’s ‘betrayal’, the All Assam Students’ Union (AASU) released a confidential report prepared by a government-appointed high-level committee to answer the question ‘who is an Assamese’. Among the many recommendations are setting 1951 as the cut-off date for defining who is Assamese. With the latest showdown, Assam has entered another round of stalemate over resolving the decades-long foreigners’ issue, though the ramifications of the recommendations, if accepted by the Centre, could affect many stakeholders and not just the perceived foreigners. Click here to know more.
Kottayam (Kerala): A court in Kerala's Kottayam on Thursday (August 13) framed charges against former Bishop of Jalandhar Diocese, Franco Mulakkal, in the case relating to the rape of a nun in Kerala.
Amaravati: Firemen could rescue 32 people from the star hotel-turned-coronavirus treatment facility at Vijaywada that went up in flames early Sunday morning. Ten COVID-19 patients died in the blaze suspected to have been caused by a short circuit, the government said.
Hyderabad: If any government talks about constructing a hospital in the time of pandemic, it should not come as a surprise. But, demolishing an existing hospital, amidst a deepening public health crisis, is not what one expects from any government.
New Delhi: Retail inflation in India rose to 6.93 percent in July, mainly on account of higher prices of food items, data released by the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation showed on Thursday.
Bengaluru: Infosys founder N R Narayana Murthy on Tuesday said the economy should be brought back on track and people should be prepared to live with the pathogen.
Billionaire Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Industries has jumped 10 places to break into the worlds top 100 companies on the Fortune Global 500 list.
The oil-to-telecom conglomerate is ranked 96th in the 2020 ranking released by Fortune on Tuesday....
Indian households expect inflation to rise over the next three months and also in a year from now, according to the Reserve Bank of India’s Households’ Inflation Expectations Survey amid concerns over India’s growth and even fears of stagflation...
The month of August has brought cheer to the Indian Railways due to an increase in freight activity, in a reversal of trend witnessed in the first four COVID-hit months of the current fiscal and indicating an upswing in economic activity.
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New Delhi: Union minister Piyush Goyal on Sunday cautioned sellers from pushing poor quality goods or charging exorbitant prices on the government e-marketplace (GeM), saying that they will not be blacklisted from the portal and also from the entire government ecosystem.
Billionaire Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Industries Ltd has a 15-year vision to build itself as a new energy company that aims to recycle CO2, create value from plastic waste and has an optimal mix of clean and affordable energy, analysts said.
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New Delhi: Despite several businesses remaining closed during the lockdown, 81 per cent of micro enterprises which took part in a poll are confident of recovery post COVID-19, while 57 per cent reported not having any cash reserves to survive, according to a survey.
Baba Ramdev's Patanjali Ayurved is considering to bid for the title sponsorship of the upcoming Indian Premier League, according to a company official. The slot of the title sponsorship of IPL was vacated after the Chinese handset maker Vivo decided to exit from it.
New Delhi: BCCI President Sourav Ganguly has described the suspension of the IPL title sponsorship deal with Chinese mobile phone company Vivo as just a "blip", dismissing talk that it might lead to a "financial crisis".
An "in principle" government approval has come for the BCCI to take the IPL to the UAE this year and the eight franchises have started their preparations by initiating quarantine and COVID-19 testing protocols for their players and support staff.
New Delhi: China-based technology firm Vivo has pulled out from being this year’s Indian Premier League’s (IPL's) title sponsor following backlash on social media amid escalating tensions between India and China.
The eagerly-awaited Indian Premier League (IPL) will start on September 19 in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) with the finals slated for November 8, IPL Chairman Brijesh Patel said on Friday (July 24).
Lahore: A Pakistani court has ruled that a Sikh girl, who allegedly married a Muslim man against her family's will, was not a 'minor' and allowed her to go with her husband or any place of her choice, sparking tension between the two communities.
US President Donald Trump may have called Democrat vice-presidential nominee Kamala Harris ‘mean’, ‘nasty’ and ‘disrespectful’, but it has now emerged that he h...
Taking the center stage of American politics for the first time after becoming the presumptive vice-presidential nominee of the Democratic party, Indian-origin Senator Kamala Harri...
The Donald Trump government decided on Wednesday (Aug 12) to ease H1-B visa restrictions and allow people with jobs to re-enter United States and get back their old jobs
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New Delhi: In its latest guidelines on disposal of COVID-19 waste, pollution watchdog CPCB has directed that masks and gloves used by everyone, whether infected or not, should be cut and kept in paper bags for minimum 72 hours before disposing of them.
According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), testing is the key to combat the novel coronavirus. However, with a massive, dense population in a country like India, testing in large numbers is impractical and not entirely affordable.
Mumbai: The Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has told the Bombay High Court that a decision to declare sanitary napkins as an essential commodity can be taken only after following the due process.
New Delhi: The Union cabinet on Wednesday approved the new National Education Policy (NEP) and the renaming of the HRD ministry to education ministry. The policy, framed in 1986, was last revised in 1992.
Teachers worry that the quality of education is the biggest casualty of online teaching, besides that some children have begun losing interest in studies. They fear, this may further drive down the already-low literacy rates in the state, which currently stands at 76.6 per cent.
New Delhi: After dropping the Class 12 marks criteria for admissions in IITs, the Centre has decided to follow the same for National Institutes of Technology (NITs) and all Centrally Funded Technical Institutions (CFTIs).
Mumbai: The Shiv Sena's youth wing Yuva Sena, headed by Maharashtra cabinet minister Aaditya Thackeray, has moved the Supreme Court seeking cancellation of the final year exams of universities across states in view of the COVID-19 crisis.
New Delhi: The Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) are considering reduction of the exam syllabus for the JEE Advanced and changing the entrance exam format for the upcoming test.
