Mumbai: The rupee depreciated 25 paise to 82.75 against the US dollar in early trade Wednesday, tracking muted domestic equities ahead of the Reserve Bank of India's monetary policy decision. Forex traders said dollar demand in the overseas market and foreign fund outflows weighed on investor sentiments. At the interbank foreign exchange, the domestic unit opened at...

Mumbai: Equity benchmarks Sensex and Nifty opened on a choppy note Wednesday, tracking weakness in index heavyweights Wipro, TCS and Maruti ahead of the RBI monetary policy announcement. The 30-share index was trading 34.28 points or 0.05 per cent lower at 62,592.08 in early deals. Similarly, the Nifty slipped 14.55 points or 0.08 per cent to 18,628.20,...

New Delhi: India recorded 166 new coronavirus infections, while the active cases declined to 4,255, according to the Union Health Ministry data updated Wednesday. The total tally of Covid cases stands at 4.46 crore (4,46,73,949). The death toll climbed to 5,30,638 with five fatalities which include three deaths reconciled by Kerala. One death each has been reported...

Islamabad: Pakistan has caved in to China's demand for opening a revolving bank account that would partially save Chinese power plants from circular debt, but it may cause concern among officials of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), according to a media report. It also allowed import of 580,000 tonnes of wheat at a price of $372 per...

Mumbai: The many rising headwinds, both domestic as well as external, will more than halve the GDP growth to 4-4.5 per cent in the second half of FY2023, shaving off the better numbers in the first half, says a report. In the first half of the current fiscal, the economy has grown at 9.7 per cent --...

Mirpur: Battling indifferent form, veteran India opener Shikhar Dhawan is working on his sweep shot and reverse hit as part of his preparation for the ODI World Cup at home later this year. Having scored just one half-century in his last nine innings, the 37-year-old left-hander faces the heat in the build up to the ODI showpiece....

Mumbai: Fans of Hindi film superstar Akshay Kumar may have another reason to rejoice, as his look from his upcoming Marathi movie 'Vedat Marathe Veer Daudle Saat was unveiled Tuesday after he started the films shoot in Mumbai, but the first look is getting trolled because of one visible glitch. The shot which tracks Akshay essaying Chhatrapati...

London: Facebook parent Meta's quasi-independent oversight board said Tuesday that an internal system that exempted high-profile users, including former US President Donald Trump, from some or all of its content moderation rules needs a major overhaul. The report by the Oversight Board, which was more than a year in the making, said the system "is flawed in...

A seemingly off the cuff remark by Iran’s Attorney General Mohammad Jafar Montazeri that the Iranian morality police was being “disbanded” is now being interpreted not as a sign of the regime succumbing to pressure exerted by protesters, but as kite flying. Protesters and international communities are not prepared to buy the argument that the orthodox regime...

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