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Mumbai: India's current account deficit (CAD) widened to USD 7.4 billion in September 2026 from USD 5.2 billion in the year-ago month, mainly due to higher import bill, according to Reserve Bank data released Friday. A current account deficit exists when a country spends more...

Bhubaneswar: Opposition BJD and Congress Friday blamed the BJP government in Odisha for the state's high retail inflation, accusing it of failing to check the rising prices of essential commodities and provide relief to consumers. The ruling BJP, however, described the price rise as a...

New Delhi: Central Consumer Protection Authority (CCPA) has imposed a penalty of Rs 10 lakh on ANI Technologies Pvt Ltd, which operates the ride-hailing platform Ola, for soliciting additional payments from customers before completing their trips. According to the regulator, the pre-ride 'tip' or 'add-on'...

Mumbai: Benchmark indices Sensex and Nifty ended lower Friday, snapping a three-day rally amid anticipation of a policy rate hike by the RBI next month after retail inflation surged to 6.09 per cent in October. The 30-share BSE Sensex dropped 318.56 points, or 0.39 per...

New Delhi: India's exports increased 29.9 per cent to USD 89.99 billion in October while the trade deficit narrowed to USD 20.09 billion, government data released Friday showed. The country's exports -- including merchandise and services -- stood at USD 69.27 billion in the same...

Washington: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has resigned from his top post at the chipmaker he co-founded, after reports of the tech titan's extramarital affairs came into the spotlight this week. One of those relationships has raised national security concerns. The New York Times reported that...

New Delhi: US-based technology giant Microsoft Friday admitted that its fixes are not "working as expected" as a mega outage hit millions of users across Microsoft 365 services globally. In a statement on X, the company said it had monitored the status of the changes...

Chicago: A widespread outage hit Microsoft platforms, including Outlook, Thursday, with many users encountering trouble using their email accounts and other errors across the tech giant's suite of apps. Nearly 1,30,000 users on outage tracker Downdetector reported problems accessing Outlook just after 1 pm local...

Bhubaneswar: Commuters in Odisha will have to pay more to travel by bus, with the state government announcing a fresh hike in passenger fares across stage carriage services Thursday. According to the Commerce and Transport Department, the maximum fare for ordinary buses has been increased...

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government Thursday signed an agreement to set up a seawater desalination plant at Gopalpur in Ganjam district, the state's first project of its kind under the public-private partnership (PPP) model, with an estimated cost of around Rs 1,000 crore, an official said....