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.
Chennai: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami on Friday flagged off LED screen-mounted vehicles to telecast short films and launched a drive to distribute pamphlets to create awareness on COVID-19 among the people in Chennai.
Describing India as a "longstanding friend" of Australia, Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Friday sent a special message of trust, respect and friendship to Indians across the world ahead of the country's 74th Independence Day.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday (Aug 14) demanded that the government clearly define an inclusive and equitable vaccine access policy to ensure its affordability and fair distribution.
He said India will soon be one of the COVID-19 vaccine ...
States are slowly opting out of the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY), just two years after the Centre launched the crop insurance scheme with much fanfare.
Narendra Modi has not only become the longest-serving non-Congress prime minister of the country but he also has the longest tenure as head of an elected government, which includes his term of more than 12 years as Gujarat chief minister, among all P...
For nearly three months, a fire has been raging at OIL's natural gas field in Assam's Baghjan, leaving thousands of people homeless, causing breathing difficulties, their houses, crops and cattle destroyed and the ecology affected. And all these days, locals have had to stay in relief camps with little facilities, violating all COVID-19 social distancing protocol. Oil India Limited (OIL) is hopeful that the fire will be doused soon, but it has a lot of questions to answer, including on the environmental violations. Click here to know more.
Chennai: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami on Friday flagged off LED screen-mounted vehicles to telecast short films and launched a drive to distribute pamphlets to create awareness on COVID-19 among the people in Chennai.
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.
Bengaluru: Amid the polarised environment in Karnataka, State Home Minister Basavaraj Bommai was, in a leaked video, recently heard assuring Hindutva activists that cases filed against them would be dropped.
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).
Describing India as a "longstanding friend" of Australia, Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Friday sent a special message of trust, respect and friendship to Indians across the world ahead of the country's 74th Independence Day.
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...
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.
