New York: US President-elect Donald Trump has announced that he is appointing two maverick entrepreneurs -- Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to lead the new Department of Government Efficiency (DoGE) that will be charged with drastically changing government while cutting waste. Announcing the appointments on...
New Delhi: India’s net direct tax collections, comprising corporate tax and personal income tax, shot up by a robust 15.4 per cent to Rs 12.1 lakh crore, from April 1 to November 10 during the current financial year, according to the latest figures released by...
New Delhi: After operating for nearly 10 years, full service carrier Vistara flew into the sunset Tuesday early morning operating its last flight from the national capital to Singapore. Vistara -- a joint venture between Tatas and Singapore Airlines -- has now merged with Air...
New Delhi: A high-level committee, headed by Union Home Minister Amit Shah, Monday approved three projects worth Rs 725.62 crore for the expansion and modernisation of fire services in Odisha, Chhattisgarh and West Bengal. The committee has approved Rs 376.76 crore for West Bengal, Rs...
Mumbai: Benchmark stock indices Sensex and Nifty closed flat in highly volatile trade Monday as continuous FII selling, disappointing quarterly earnings and weak trends from Asian markets dented investor sentiment. After gyrating between highs and lows, benchmark Sensex eked out gains of 9.83 points or...
New Delhi: Full-service airline Vistara will operate its last flights today as it will be merged with the Air India Group Tuesday. National carrier Air India has announced that flights operated by Vistara will start using the flight code 'AI2' after the merger of the...
New Delhi: A host of macroeconomic data announcements, the last batch of September quarter earnings, global trends, and trading activity of foreign investors will be the major driving factors for the equity market this week, according to analysts. Equity markets would remain closed Friday for...
Bhubaneswar: An Odisha-based startup Bon V Aero has launched a fully autonomous logistics drone service called Air Orca, a source said Sunday. The launch of the drone service was made in the presence of venture capitalist Tim Draper, the source added. "Today's launch of Air...
Mumbai/New Delhi: When Vistara folds up into the Air India Group on Monday, the number of full service carriers in the fast-growing Indian aviation space will come down to just one from five in a span of over 17 years. Also, the merger -- that...
Baku: As climate change leads to a seemingly endless stream of weather disasters around the world, countries are struggling to adapt to the new reality. Preparing to better withstand hurricanes, floods, heat waves, droughts and wildfires will take hundreds of billions of dollars. And then...
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Freedom of speech and expression is the soul of democracy and to rob an individual of that fundamental right is...
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US President Donald Trump is opening new theatres of his global tariff war. This appears to be a strategy he...
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Many of the acts of omission and commission by the Election Commission of India (ECI) in the recent past have...
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