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Bhubaneswar: Railway projects worth over Rs 80,000 crore are being executed in Odisha, Union Minister of State for Railways V Somanna said Saturday. He said Rs 10,599 crore was allocated to the state in the 2025-26 budget, a 12.5-fold increase from the Rs 838 crore...

New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate has summoned representatives of tech giants Meta and Google as part of a money laundering investigation against a number of illegal online betting platforms, official sources said Saturday. The executives have been asked to depose before the agency July 21...

Hyderabad: India's electronics exports have soared past USD 40 billion, marking an eight-fold growth during the last 11 years, Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said Saturday. He also highlighted that the domestic electronics production has gone up by six times. Addressing the 14th Convocation of IIT...

A New Fund Offer (NFO) is the first-time subscription launch of a mutual fund scheme by an asset management company (AMC). Many investors are drawn to NFOs because they believe joining early offers special advantages or lower costs. But is investing in an NFO always...

New Delhi: The free trade agreement between India and the four-nation European bloc EFTA will be implemented from October 1, Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal said Saturday. The two sides signed the Trade and Economic Partnership Agreement (TEPA) March 10, 2024. Under the pact,...

Washington: President Donald Trump filed a $10 billion lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal and media mogul Rupert Murdoch Friday, a day after the newspaper published a story reporting on his ties to wealthy financier Jeffrey Epstein. The move came shortly after the Justice Department...

New Delhi: Calling recent media reports on Air India Ahmedabad crash “premature and speculative,” the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has urged the media and public to wait for the final report from the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB), which is leading the inquiry...

New Delhi: India and the US teams have concluded the fifth round of talks for the proposed bilateral trade agreement (BTA) in Washington July 17, an official said. The negotiations were held for four days (July 14-17) in Washington. "The Indian team is coming back,"...

Lahore: Pakistan has extended the closure of its airspace for flights operated by Indian airlines by another month till August 24, the Pakistan Airports Authority (PAA) said. No aircraft operated by Indian airlines, or military and civilian flights that are Indian-owned or leased, will be...

New Delhi: Hours after the European Union (EU) agreed upon an 18th round of sanctions on Russia over its invasion of Ukraine, India Friday said that it does not subscribe to any unilateral sanction measures and that there should be no "double standards", especially when...