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Washington: India's Ambassador to the United States, Vinay Mohan Kwatra,  Saturday (Indian time) engaged in discussions with members of the US House of Representatives on strengthening bilateral trade, energy cooperation, and India's consistent support for resolving the Ukraine conflict through dialogue and diplomacy. Kwatra held...

Singapore: Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor Friday described US President Donald Trump as "mercurial", whose tariffs on goods have started to hit Indian businesses, and a number of jobs have already been lost. The US has imposed a 50 per cent tariff, including 25 per...

Mumbai: A SpiceJet aircraft's wheel fell off after take-off from Kandla airport Friday and the plane made an emergency landing at Mumbai airport, according to sources. "On September 12, an outer wheel of a SpiceJet Q400 aircraft operating from Kandla to Mumbai was found at...

Bhubaneswar: Amazon India is aiming to more than double its delivery speed in Odisha following the launch of a new fulfilment centre in Bhubaneswar, a senior company official said Friday. The company's operations network in the state now includes a fulfilment centre, a sortation centre,...

New Delhi: Gold and silver prices hit fresh peaks Friday, with the yellow metal hitting Rs 1,13,800 per 10 grams, and silver crossing Rs 1,32,000 per kilogram in the national capital Friday, buoyed by strong global demand and heightened expectations of an interest rate cut...

New Delhi: Retail inflation in August rose slightly to 2.07 per cent from 1.61 per cent in the preceding month, mainly due to increase in prices of vegetables, meat and fish, according to a government data released Friday. The inflation based on consumer price index...

Mumbai: Equity benchmark indices Sensex and Nifty surged Friday in line with a global market rally amid rising hopes that the US Federal Reserve will cut interest rates next week. Optimism over a successful conclusion of India-US trade talks has also fuelled a rally in...

London: The House of Lords International Agreements Committee has opened an inquiry this week into the impacts and implications of the UK-India Free Trade Agreement (FTA), concluded during Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Britain in July. The cross-party panel, which includes British Indian Conservative...

Patna: Negotiations between India and the US on the proposed trade agreement, which began in March, are progressing in a positive atmosphere, and both countries are satisfied with the progress, Commerce and Industry Minister Piysuh Goyal said Thursday. He said that in February this year,...

New Delhi: Union Road Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari Thursday said the social media rage over blending of 20 per cent ethanol in petrol fuel was a “paid campaign” to target him politically. There has been clarity on the E20 (20 per cent ethanol blended petrol)...