New Delhi: Qatar will remain a "reliable energy supplier" to India, its Energy Minister Saad Sherida Al-Kaabi said during talks with Indian Oil Minister Hardeep Singh Puri in Doha, as both sides called for stability in global markets amid ongoing West Asia tensions. Puri, on a two-day visit to Qatar from April 9-10, conveyed a message of...

New Delhi: Asian Development Bank (ADB) Friday projected India's GDP growth to remain "robust" at 6.9 per cent in the current fiscal, and rise to 7.3 per cent in next fiscal driven by strong domestic demand, and supported by easing financing conditions and lower US tariffs on Indian goods. In its Asian Development Outlook April 2026 report,...

Mumbai: Stock market benchmark indices Sensex and Nifty surged over 1 per cent Friday, propelled by buying in banking counters and a positive trend in global equities. Investor sentiment improved amid hopes of further easing in the West Asia crisis ahead of US-Iran negotiations and lower crude prices, analysts said. After staying in the positive territory throughout...

Balasore: A woman and her six-year-old son died when a heavy iron bar fell on them while travelling on the rear-end of a truck from Chandikhole to Balasore in Odisha, police said Friday. A police official said the truck was carrying bundles of heavy iron bars, and seven members of a family were travelling in the vehicle,...

Chatra: A gruesome incident has come to light from the Scheduled Caste Residential Girls’ School located at the Hunterganj block headquarters in Jharkhand’s Chatra district. A 14-year-old minor student, who was residing in the school hostel and studying in Class III, was found to be pregnant during a medical examination. It is alleged that the school’s headmaster...

Mumbai: Hindi film industry couple Randeep Hooda and Lin Laishram Friday announced that they have named their newborn baby girl Nyomica Hooda, as their first bundle of joy turned one month old  Friday. Sharing their joy, Randeep and Lin expressed in a joint statement: “Naming our daughter has been an incredibly special and emotional moment for us.”...

Kabul: At least 148 people have been killed and 216 others injured in Afghanistan in the past two weeks following heavy rains, flash floods, landslides, earthquakes and lightning that have struck several parts of the country, local media reported Friday, citing updates released by the Afghan disaster authorities. Nangarhar province in Eastern Afghanistan was among the worst-hit...

Moscow: Russian President Vladimir Putin has announced a ceasefire for Orthodox Easter, with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky expressing Kyiv's willingness to abide it. According to the Kremlin, the ceasefire will remain in effect from 4 pm (Moscow time) April 11 and until the end of April 12, leading Russian news agency Tass reported. The statement reads, "By...

Bhopal: Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan Friday said unseasonal rains and hailstorms have damaged standing rabi crops across 2.49 lakh hectares so far across several states, with the wheat crop being the most affected. Speaking to reporters ahead of the "Unnat Krishi Mela" launch in Raisen district of Madhya Pradesh, Chouhan said three departments are conducting the...

Bengaluru: Hindi film industry star Ranveer Singh Friday told the Karnataka High Court that he is willing to work with the complainant to revise the wording of his apology affidavit in a case related to his mimicry of a character from the film Kantara: Chapter 1. The statement came after the complainant argued that the actor’s affidavit...