Voting began on a brisk note in the Assembly elections in Maharashtra and Haryana on Monday (October 21) with people queuing up outside polling booths early in the morning.
The government estimates have put kharif crop acreage almost same as last year. If the yield is high the production could be even higher than the previous years.
Chennai: Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi is likely to meet senior party leader DK Shivkumar at the Tihar Jail today, said sources. Shivakumar was arrested last month by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in a money laundering case.
Chennai/Ranchi: Opener Rohit Sharma registered his maiden Test double ton before departing to Kagiso Rabada bowling and Lungi Ngidi's firecracker catch at fine leg on the second day of the third and final Test against South Africa in Ranchi on Sunday (October 20).
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday (October 21) allowed Muslim parties, including UP Sunni Wakf Board, to file their written note in the decades-old Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid land dispute case, in which they have submitted that the verdict will have "con...
Islamabad: The Pakistan military has rejected as "false" the Indian Army's assertion that it targeted at least three terror camps in PoK and said India is welcome to take any foreign diplomat or media to the site to "prove" its claim on ground.
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New Delhi: Army chief General Bipin Rawat on Sunday (October 20) said that around six to ten Pakistani soldiers were killed and three terror camps destroyed in the Indian Army’s retaliatory action, opposite the Tangdhar sector in Jammu and Kashmir.
London: The plans of an anti-India march, scheduled in London on Diwali next Sunday over the issue of Kashmir, was met with strict opposition from city Mayor Sadiq Khan, who said that the protest rally would deepen divisions in the UK capital.
New Delhi: The railways has decided to prune the Railway Board by 25%, cutting down its strength from 200 to 150 by transferring director-level officials and above to zonal railways in a long pending move to enhance efficiency, sources said on Sunday (October 2...
Just as a rather unexciting election campaign was coming to an end in Maharashtra, NCP chief Sharad Pawar said his party “doesn’t fight with kids”. The veteran leader was hitting out at the state chief minister, who much to Pawar’s chagrin has been the new unbeatable kid on the block for the past five years now despite his tenure being marked by several issues—unemployment, farmers’ distress, the controversial Mumbai Metro-3 car shed project in Aarey, etc. But what perhaps makes Devendra Gangadharrao Fadnavis’s political rise astonishing is the fact that the 49-year-old managed to emerge as the most popular leader in a state otherwise awash by Modi magic. Click here to know more.
Washington: India is planning to prepare a blueprint for international companies that are looking beyond China to make India as their preferred investment destination. Nirmala Sitharaman said that industry leaders, who are mulling to get their businesses out of China, are “considering India as the pitch”.
Two-wheeler exports rose by over 4% in the April-September period of the current fiscal, with Bajaj Auto leading the segment by shipping over 9 lakh units to various markets, including Africa and Latin America, as per latest data by industry bod...
Washington: India on Saturday (October 19) expressed its disappointment over the lack of support to increase the quota structure of the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
IMF quotas, which are the primary source of IMF funds, determine voting shares. Quo...
Washington: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Friday (October 19) backed India's recent decision to bring down corporate income tax and said that it has a positive impact on investment.
"The monetary policy stimulus and the announced corporate inc...
Acting on a plea for interim protective measures for insuring around 15 lakh people whose money is blocked in the scam-hit Punjab & Maharashtra Co-operative (PMC) Bank, the Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to an urgent hearing.
The matte...
New York: Hitting back at noted economist and former Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Raghuram Rajan, for his remarks that Modi's first term didn't do well on economy, Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman, on Tuesday (October 15), alleged that th...
Days after the World Bank cut India's growth forecast, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) followed suit, by lowering the projections to 6.1 per cent, down from 7.3 per cent it had projected in April this year.
As against India's real growt...
India's trade deficit fell to USD 10.86 billion in September, down by 27 per cent on the back of a dip in exports and imports, official data showed.
Exports contracted by 6.57 per cent to USD 26 billion in September mainly due to significant ...
Bengaluru: Boasting of five India internationals in their ranks, including talismanic captain Sunil Chhetri, a formidable Bengaluru FC will begin their quest for title defence when they take on NorthEast United in their opening Indian Super League match in Bengaluru on Monday (October 21).
Chennai/Karachi: Pakistan's ousted captain Sarfaraz Ahmed will remain in category A of the central contracts given to players as he is available for selection in all three formats of the game, Pakistan Cricket Board said on Sunday (October 20).
Chennai/Ranchi: Vice-captain Ajinkya Rahane supported Rohit Sharma’s run of form with his 115 off 192 balls which was also the right-handed batsman’s 20th partnership in Tests without ever being involved in a run out.
Chennai/Ranchi: Who said a bowler cannot bat? India’s Umesh Yadav showed the top-order how to bat with his record five sixes in the ten balls he faced from George Linde on day 2 of the third and final Test against South Africa in Ranchi on Sunday (October 20).
Chennai/Madrid: FC Barcelona has paved its way back to the top of the table and trouble returned to Real Madrid after they witnessed their first La Liga defeat of the season at newly-promoted Real Mallorca.
London: The plans of an anti-India march, scheduled in London on Diwali next Sunday over the issue of Kashmir, was met with strict opposition from city Mayor Sadiq Khan, who said that the protest rally would deepen divisions in the UK capital.
Lahore: Pakistan will open the much-awaited Kartarpur Corridor on November 9, Prime Minister Imran Khan announced on Sunday (October 20).
The proposed corridor will connect Darbar Sahib...
London: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was on Sunday (October 20) branded a spoilt brat by the Opposition after he sent an unsigned letter seeking a three-month extension to the Octo...
R Washington: Many countries have warned against rushing into cryptocurrencies, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on Sunday (October 20), as Facebook's proposed virtual currency 'Li...
Chennai/New Delhi: According to an FSSAI study, 37.7 percent of processed milk samples, including major brands, have failed to meet the prescribed quality norm.
