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New Delhi: The government's cyber security and safety app Sanchar Saathi recorded a 10-fold jump in downloads on Tuesday, rising from a daily average of around 60,000 to nearly 6 lakh, DoT sources said Wednesday. The number of downloads jumped even as Opposition leaders and...

New Delhi: Russia expects to boost its oil exports to India again and views the current decline that has taken place due to Western sanctions as a very temporary phase, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said Tuesday. "There can be, for a very brief period of...

Moscow: Russia's lower house of parliament, State Duma, Tuesday ratified a key military pact with India ahead of President Vladimir Putin's state visit to New Delhi December 4-5. The Reciprocal Exchange of Logistic Support (RELOS) signed February 18 between the two governments, was sent to...

Bhubaneswar: Only 25 of the 207 mega piped water supply projects initiated by the Odisha government in the last five years have been completed, the Assembly was informed Tuesday. Responding to queries from several members on the delay in completion of drinking water projects, Panchayati...

Mumbai: Stock markets declined Tuesday, with the benchmark Sensex tumbling nearly 504 points due to selling in blue-chip bank stocks and Reliance Industries, and persistent foreign fund outflows. Falling for the third straight session, the 30-share BSE Sensex tumbled 503.63 points or 0.59 per cent...

Mumbai: The rupee hit the psychological 90-a-dollar level in intraday trade before settling 42 paise down at an all-time low of 89.95 (provisional) against the US dollar Tuesday, largely owing to continued short-covering from speculators and sustained importer demand for the American currency. Forex traders...

New Delhi: Moscow is fully aware of New Delhi's concerns about the massive trade deficit, and Russia is working with India to fix "the problem", Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Tuesday. Addressing a video-streamed press conference for Indian journalists, Peskov spoke on a range of...

New Delhi: Union minister Jyotiraditya Scindia Tuesday said the Sanchar Saathi app, a fraud reporting app the government wants pre-installed on all devices, can be deleted by users. Users can decide to keep the Sanchar Saathi app or delete it, Scindia told reporters Tuesday. The...

London: Airbus is inspecting panels on its bestselling A320 passenger jets after quality control problems surfaced, days after it reported that it was scrambling to fix a separate software problem affecting about 6,000 of the popular planes. The European planemaker said Monday that it “identified a supplier...

New Delhi: India's industrial production growth slowed to a 13-month low of 0.4 per cent in October this year due to the poor showing by power, mining and manufacturing sectors, according to official data released Monday. The factory output, measured in terms of the Index...