RBI Deputy Governor Viral Acharya, who quit six months before the end of his term, is not the first person to resign from the central bank under the Narendra Modi government. India’s top bank has seen...
New Delhi: The draft National Education Policy report on the three-language formula proposes for flexibility regarding the choice of language, Union HRD Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank said Monday.
Speaking during Question Hour in the Lok Sabha, he said th...
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar formally joined the BJP on Monday in the presence of working president J P Nadda. He is set to be elected to the Rajya Sabha from Gujarat.
Jaishankar, a career diplomat and a former foreign secretary, was ind...
The Proteas crashed out of the ICC World Cup as Pakistan kept their dreams of making it to the semi-finals alive by clinching an outstanding 49 run win on Sunday.
It has been a difficult season for both the teams. Neither Pakistan nor South Africa...
New Delhi: Rajya Sabha MPs on Monday (June 24) raised the issue of growing drinking water crisis in different parts of the country and demanded immediate interventions such as inter-linking of rivers and rain water harvesting to recharge the ground water table....
New Delhi: The GST Council will consider reducing tax on electric vehicles, which are seen as more
environment-friendly, and the matter is pending before it, Minister of State for Finance Anurag Thakur informed the Lok Sabha on Monday (June 24).
Thakur was ...
Not only fans, even insurance companies are praying to rain God to spare India's remaining matches at the ongoing cricket World Cup as washed-out games could cost them ₹100 crore in pay-outs.
Team ...
Mohammed Shami had no second thoughts about bowling a yorker for a hat-trick delivery after Mahendra Singh Dhoni advised the same during India's thrilling World Cup encounter against Afghanistan here....
Sachin Tendulkar was left disappointed by India's slow batting display against Afghanistan and said the middle-order batsmen, including Mahendra Singh Dhoni and Kedar Jadhav, lacked positive intent du...
New Delhi: The Congress on Monday (June 24) hit out at the Centre over state-owned telecom firms MTNL and BSNL reeling under losses, alleging that the Modi dispensation was helping private telecom companies at the cost of public sector undertakings.
Bot...
New Delhi: Unaccounted wealth outside the country held by Indian's was estimated in the range of USD 216.48 billion to USD 490 billion over various periods between 1980 and 2010, according to three separate studies conducted by three premier institutes — N...
New Delhi: The GST Council will consider reducing tax on electric vehicles, which are seen as more
environment-friendly, and the matter is pending before it, Minister of State for Finance Anurag Thakur informed the Lok Sabha on Monday (June 24).
Thakur...
New Delhi: Insolvency proceedings have been initiated against debt-ridden Jet Airways, which formally stopped flying on April 17 and saw lenders voting for bankruptcy earlier this month.
The cash-strapped company became the first domestic airline to go ...
New Delhi: American retail giant Amazon has infused ₹450 crore into its payments unit in India — Amazon Pay, according to regulatory documents.
Amazon Pay (India) has allotted 45 crore shares of ₹10 each aggregating to ₹450 crore to Amazon Corporate Hol...
New Delhi: The GST Council on Friday (June 21) extended the tenure of the anti-profiteering authority by two years till November 2021 and allowed use of Aadhaar as proof for obtaining GST registration while referring tax cut on electric vehicles and their ...
Washington: Global retail giant Walmart has agreed to pay over USD 282 million to settle charges of violating US anti-corruption regulations while conducting its business in India, China, Brazil and Mexico.
According to the US Security and Exchange Commi...
New Delhi: Construction major L&T, which is in the midst of a hostile takeover of Mindtree Ltd, has secured three board positions at the IT services firm, giving the former a firm control over the company where it is eyeing over 66 per cent stake.
A...
England opener Jason Roy has been ruled out of the match against Australia on Tuesday (June 25), failing to recover from injury.
Roy who missed the last two matches due to a hamstring tear was suggested a second scan for the same...
Just seven titles away from breaking the men’s record of 109, held by Jimmy Connors, Roger Federer feels sympathetic towards the next generation tennis champs. He said that their successes outside of the Grand Slams are overlooked...
The ongoing controversy over the exclusion of shooting from the 2022 Birmingham Commonwealth Games has left many Indian shooters disappointed. To show their protest towards the same, the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) is plannin...
The Proteas crashed out of the ICC World Cup as Pakistan kept their dreams of making it to the semi-finals alive by clinching an outstanding 49 run win on Sunday.
It has been a difficult season for both the teams. Neither Pakis...
Two nail-biting performances but no wins — Afghanistan’s debut World Cup performance was a let-down for the team! But, not for others. In two matches out of the six they played so far — those against Sri Lanka in Cardiff and India in Southampton — they had put themselves in a winning position.
With defeats in all their six matches, Afghanistan is all set to face Bangladesh at the Hampshire Bowl on Monday (June 24) at 3 PM (IST).
The Ma...
Moscow: Russia on Monday (June 24) denounced as "illegal" new economic sanctions that the United States is preparing to impose on Iran. "We consider these sanctions illegal," Kremlin spoke...
A crowdfunding website has removed a popular rugby player’s page for his homophobic social media posts, besides promising to refund all those who had donated for his cause.
Isra...
Beijing: Thirty-one people were injured after a 5.4-magnitude earthquake hit the Gongxian County in southwest China's Sichuan Province on Saturday (June 22), authorities said on Sunday (Jun...
Beijing, China: Huawei has urged India to make an 'informed and independent decision' on permitting its 5G trials in the country as the Chinese telecom giant reeled under pressure following the US...
