Mumbai: Morgan Stanley economists do not expect the RBI to cut key interest rates in 2024-25 as the country is clocking a robust GDP growth and the US Fed has postponed its rate cut which could pose a risk to the Indian economy. According to economists Upasana Chachra and Bani Gambhir, factors such as improving productivity, increased...

Washington: Cash-strapped Pakistan would need two or three years to implement structural reforms prescribed by the IMF, Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb has said, warning that the country would be looking for another bailout programme if it fails to go through these measures. Speaking at the Atlantic Council think tank in Washington, Aurangzeb said that Pakistan doesn't need...

Tel Aviv: Israel's foreign minister Israel Katz has launched what he called a ‘diplomatic offensive’ against Iran following the major Iranian attack on Israel. "This morning I sent letters to 32 countries and spoke with dozens of foreign ministers and leading figures around the world," Katz wrote Tuesday on the X platform. He called for sanctions to...

Seoul: South Korea Tuesday expressed its strong opposition towards Japan after the latter released an annual diplomatic report that reasserted its territorial claims over the easternmost islets of Dokdo. The dispute over the sovereignty of Dokdo has been a longstanding issue between the two countries, and this recent move by Japan has only escalated the tension between...

Mainpuri: Samajwadi Party candidate Dimple Yadav Tuesday filed her nomination papers from Mainpuri Lok Sabha seat. Accompanied by SP President Akhilesh Yadav, Dimple first visited the ‘samadhi’ of Mulayam Singh Yadav and offered floral tributes. Senior party leader Shivpal Yadav and Prof Ram Gopal Yadav also accompanied Dimple for her nomination. “I have come here to seek...

Angul: The driver of a bus was killed and five passengers seriously injured after it collided with a dumper in Odisha's Angul district Tuesday morning, police said. Around 25 passengers were on the bus, which was heading to Puri from Chhatisgarh's Korba, when the accident happened on NH-55 near Jarapada Square, they said. The dumper was parked...

Kolkata: The BJP Tuesday nominated its veteran leader Abhijit Das from the Diamond Harbour Lok Sabha seat in West Bengal, where he will take on TMC heavyweight and sitting MP Abhishek Banerjee. Das was the former president of the party's South 24 Parganas district unit. The Left Front has fielded CPI(M)'s youth leader Pratikur Rahman from the...

Bengaluru: Veteran Kannada film actor, producer and director Bungle Shama Rao Dwarakanath, popularly known as Dwarakish, died following a cardiac arrest Tuesday. He was 81, family sources said. He acted in about 100 films and produced and directed around 50 movies. Born August 19, 1942 at Hunsur in Mysuru district, Dwarakish was best known for his comedy...

New Delhi: Aditya Srivastava has topped the prestigious civil services examination 2023, with Animesh Pradhan and Donuru Ananya Reddy getting the second and third ranks respectively, the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) announced Tuesday. Srivastava qualified the examination with electrical engineering as his optional subject. He has done his graduation (Bachelor of Technology) in electrical engineering from...

Jajpur: The bus accident in Odisha's Jajpur district in which at least five people were killed and 40 others were injured was mainly due to "negligence" of the driver, a senior official of the Transport department said Tuesday. This was stated by Additional Commissioner Transport(Road Safety) Lal Mohan Sethi after a preliminary investigation at the accident site....