New Delhi: New York-based Moody’s Ratings Thursday raised its forecast for India’s GDP growth for 2024 to 7.2 per cent from 6.8 per cent as projected earlier on the back of stronger private consumption driving up aggregate demand in the economy. "Household consumption is poised...
Washington: US Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris has said her “values have not changed” as she has altered her position on key issues that could determine her elections, such as fracking, which she had once opposed and now doesn’t. She said this...
Agartala: The Tripura Disaster Management Authority (TDMA) amid the visit of an Inter-Ministerial Central Team (IMCT) to take stock of the damages and losses caused by the recent week-long floods and landslides has declared the entire state as a "Natural Calamity Affected Area". The six-member...
Bhopal: The Madhya Pradesh government Thursday suspended six Government Railway Police (GRP) personnel including a station in-charge in connection with the beating of a woman and her grandson in Katni district. The opposition Congress claimed that the victims were Dalits. Targeting the Mohan Yadav-led BJP...
New Delhi: India's second nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine was commissioned into the Navy Thursday in the presence of Defence Minister Rajnath Singh who said this will further strengthen the country's nuclear triad and enhance nuclear deterrence. The ceremony for commissioning took place in Visakhapatnam. The...
Shimla: Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu announced Thursday that he, his ministers, chief parliamentary secretaries and chairpersons and vice-chairpersons of boards and corporations would defer drawing their salaries and allowances for two months, citing the state's "grim financial situation". The chief minister made...
Kolkata: Three purported audio recordings of phone calls, allegedly made by RG Kar Medical College authorities August 9 morning to the parents of the rape-murder victim asking them to report to the hospital, hit the public domain Thursday and sparked a fresh controversy over ‘insensitivity’...
Bengaluru: The Karnataka High Court Thursday granted temporary relief to Deputy Chief Minister and State Congress President DK Shivakumar by quashing CBI's plea seeking to continue the probe against the leader in connection with the disproportionate assets case. A division bench, headed by Justice K...
New Delhi: "Do we pass orders after consultations with political parties?" an ostensibly provoked Supreme Court asked Thursday, voicing strong displeasure over Telangana Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy's comments on the apex court granting bail to rival BRS leader K Kavitha in cases linked to...
Guwahati: The Assam Assembly Thursday passed a Bill to abolish a British-era Muslim marriage and divorce act, making government registration of marriages compulsory and doing away with the role of Qazis in registering any Muslim marriage in the state. Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said...
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