New Delhi: The government has so far shied away from acknowledging that the economy is in the grip of a clear slowdown, with various ministers either sidestepping questions on falling Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth rates or denying that there is any trouble with the economy at all.
Never mind the economic gloom in India, unsettling political events in Kashmir and the NRC fiasco, Indians now have something to look forward to: the September 22 “Howdy, Modi! Shared Dreams, Bright Futures” event at Houston in Texas.
Chennai: Two days after Union home minister Amit Shah’s tweet on the occasion of Hindi Diwas, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and Karnataka chief minister BS Yediyurappa said on Monday that all official languages in India are equal.
The Supreme Court’s directive to demolish a group of prime waterfront high-rise apartment complexes near Kochi in Kerala over violation Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) norms has snowballed into a major controversy.
The demolition of H2O Holy Faith, ...
Mumbai: The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and the Congress will contest 125 seats each in next month’s Maharashtra state election, NCP chief Sharad Pawar said on Monday.
Srinagar: Former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Farooq Abdullah has now been detained under the stringent Public Safety Act (PSA), which enables authorities to detain any individual for two years without a trial, sources said on Monday (September 16).
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There are an estimated 400,000 wandering mentally ill persons in India. Most of them can be found on the streets and near railway stations. And among those rescued for treatment, language and communication is a huge barrier. Social workers like Venkatesh work closely with NGOs and police to help in the rescue of such people, especially those who are from other states. Click here to know more about the reunion efforts.
Congress leader DK Shivakumar, who was arrested on September 3 in an alleged money laundering case, suffered yet another setback on Friday (September 13) as a Delhi court extended his Enforcement Directorate (ED) custody till September 17.
Protests against the proposed exploration for uranium deposits in Telangana’s Amrabad forest, the second largest tiger reserve in the country, are gaining momentum with celebrities lending their support for a ban on the proposed exploration.
New Delhi: Radio waves unsold in past auctions cost India an estimated ₹5.4 lakh crores in economic losses, claimed industry body Broadband India Forum, urging the government to ensure adequacy and "reasonable" rates for upcoming 5G auction.
BIF said th...
Chennai: Crude prices witnessed its biggest intraday jump to over $71 per barrel on Monday (September 16) after a drone attack by Yemen’s Houthi rebels on Saudi Arabia’s largest oil processing plant sparked a major fire on Saturday.
Hong Kong: Oil prices surged more than 10% on Monday after attacks on two Saudi Arabian plants that slashed output in the world's top producer by half, with Donald Trump blaming Iran and raising the possibility of a military strike on the country.
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A mega shopping festival like Dubai shopping festival will be held across the country in four destinations, by March 2020 to boost exports. "It is greater push for people to make contacts and connections," Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said.
Millennials are amused at the blame game currently on, with falling car sales landing on top of myriad other things they are routinely held accountable for.
New Delhi: Retail inflation inched up to a 10-month high of 3.21% in August due to higher prices of food items like meat and fish, vegetables and pulses, government data revealed on Thursday.
However, retail inflation is still within the Reserve Bank's ...
New Delhi/Chennai: In a bid to defend the government’s target of transforming the country into a $5 trillion economy amid a current economic slowdown, Union minister Piyush Goyal on Thursday (September 12) claimed that maths did not help Albert Einstein to discove...
The Adani Group in has placed bids for ₹45,000-crore Indian Navy submarine project under ‘Make In India’ initiative. The Gujarat-based Indian multinational conglomerate deals in logistics, the energy it also handles mining, trading, gas distribu...
New Delhi: India dairy giant Amul was on Monday (September 16) roped in by Cricket South Africa (CSA) as their new partner for the ongoing three-game twenty20 international series.
Amul ranked 73rd globally, will feature on the back of th...
Paris: Karolina Plikosva's victory at the Zhengzhou Open at the weekend means the Czech is now just 86 points behind Ashleigh Barty who remains at the top of the WTA rankings released on Monday (September 16).
Pliskova claimed her fou...
Chennai: Bangladesh has now joined India and Australia in calling for shooting's inclusion in the 2022 Birmingham Commonwealth Games roster.
Bangladesh sports minister Md Zahid Ahsan Russel on Sunday (September 15) in Dhaka wrote to UK ...
Chennai: Recently crowned world champion PV Sindhu will look to clinch the $1,000,000 China Open World Tour Super 1000 tournament beginning in Changzhou (China) on Tuesday (September 17).
The World No. 5 will look to reassert her suprem...
New Delhi: The Tamil Nadu Premier League (TNPL) has run into troubled waters with a few first-class cricketers and a couple of coaches coming under the BCCI Anti-Corruption Units scanner for suspected match-fixing.
BCCI's ACU chief Ajit Singh, however, ruled out the possibility of any international player being a suspect. The TNPL, owned by the Tamil Nadu Cricket Association, started in 2016 and features eight franchises.
"Some players have repor...
US president Donald Trump on Monday (September 16) said he will be meeting the prime ministers of India and Pakistan soon, even as he maintained that tension between the two Asian ...
Ahead of Pakistan PM Imran Khan address at the UNGA on September 27, where he said he will raise the Kashmir issue, British MP Bob Blackman extended support to India saying that Islamabad must vacate PoK and that India has a sovereign right over the entire region.
US President Donald Trump is set to share stage with Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the mega diaspora event ‘Howdy Modi’ in Houston on September 22, the White House said on Sunday (September 15).
Chennai: US President Donald Trump is likely to share stage with Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his ‘Howdy Modi’ mega diaspora event in Houston on September 22, said reports.
Chennai: The news of a 74-year-old woman becoming mother for the first time after delivering twins in Andhra Pradesh has triggered a fresh round of debate over the ethical issues concerning in vitro fertilisation (IVF) procedure for aged couples beyond 50 years of age.
With early exposure to the internet, children and adolescents don’t just have to face the perils of the real world, as the pervasive virtual world has made them all the more vulnerable.
