The data released by the Union Ministry of Statistics on Monday (July 13) revealed that consumer price index (CPI) or retail inflation, an estimation of change in prices of a basket of goods and services, has increased to 6.09 per cent in June from 5.84 per cent in March.
Over the last two weeks, there's been a concentrated effort in Tamil Nadu to discredit the media, bring up the anti-Dravidian debate, propagate false claims that "RSS workers" are under attack and also evoke religious and nationalist sentiment.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday (July 14) said the total number of coronavirus cases in the country will cross the 10 lakh-mark this week.
"This week, the figure of 10,00,000 will be crossed in our country," he said in a tweet in Hindi.
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Jailed Telugu poet and litterateur Varavara Rao, was shifted to the state-run JJ Hospital in Mumbai on Monday (July 13) after his health deteriorated.
Eighty one-year-old Rao, an accused in the Elgar Parishad case has been in prison since 2018. He...
India's fuel demand has seen a trend of recovery with economic activities resuming in the country after several phases of COVID-19 lockdown. The relaxation on travel restrictions has also resulted in a spike in demand for motor spirit (petrol) over t...
Sometime in 2004, journalists in Jaipur were invited to a hotel near Jaipur railway station by Rama Pilot, wife of the late Congress leader Rajesh Pilot, for a brief interaction. Rama Pilot, a member of parliament from Dausa, had just contested, and ...
Since the first recorded Chinese settler, Tong Atchew in the 18th century, the Chinese community in Kolkata has grown considerably, although they have lost touch with their homeland and speak little Mandarin. But every time there is a tension at the border between Indian and Chinese troops, as now in Galwan Valley of Ladakh, these Chinese-Indians are looked upon with suspicion. Many from the community have tried to convince the public that they have nothing to do with China. But their pleas fall on deaf ears. Click here to know more.
Over the last two weeks, there's been a concentrated effort in Tamil Nadu to discredit the media, bring up the anti-Dravidian debate, propagate false claims that "RSS workers" are under attack and also evoke religious and nationalist sentiment.
Bengaluru: A complete lockdown will be imposed in Bengaluru Urban and Rural districts for seven days, starting from 8 pm on July 14 in view of the rising novel coronavirus cases, Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa said on Saturday.
Tirumala: As many as 91 employees of the Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD) have tested positive for COVID-19 so far, Anil Kumar Singhal, the executive officer of TTD said in a media briefing on Sunday.
New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday requested Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his intervention in cancelling final year exams of Delhi University and other Central universities in view of the coronavirus pandemic.
As many as 80 millionaires have penned an open letter, urging governments across the world to impose more taxes on the super-wealthy to help the global economy tide over the coronavirus crisis.
An AFP report said, the group named ‘Millionaire...
The Indian IT sector may be taking the first few steps on the path to recovery, according to TCS CEO and managing director Rajesh Gopinathan but analysts believe that these are brave words.
During the last couple of months, the IT sector has ...
Terming the COVID-19 pandemic as the worst health and economic crisis in the past 100 years, Reserved Bank of India (RBI) governor Shaktikanta Das on Saturday (July 11) said that the Indian economy, however, is showing signs of inching towards n...
Kolkata: Chhattisgarh appears to have beaten the COVID-19 economic blues by ensuring 22 per cent higher GST collection in June this year in comparison to the corresponding month of the last year.
According to figures furnished by the state government,...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has claimed that the Indian economy had started seeing “green shoots” of recovery, but one sector has seen more than just green shoots ever since Unlock 1.0. The used-car market has seen huge business ever since the ...
New Delhi: The Indian Railways (IR) seems to have taken some learnings from the hiccups faced by Airports Authority of India (AAI) in privatising airports, by barring a single bidder from bagging all the deals, while inviting bids by private parties to ope...
New Delhi: A finance ministry report on Monday (July 6) said that the country's gross domestic product (GDP) will contract 4.5 per cent as predicted by International Monetary Fund, in the current fiscal due to unprecedented supply-demand shocks induced by the COVID-19 pandemic.
