Kolkata: One more person has been arrested in connection with the vandalism during Lionel Messi's event at Salt Lake Stadium December 13, taking the number of those arrested to six, the Bidhannagar police said Wednesday. Meanwhile, a Special Investigation Team (SIT), formed by the West...
New Delhi: Indian Railways has achieved a major milestone in clean energy use, and by November this year, it will have commissioned 898 MW of solar power for its operations. This is a sharp increase from just 3.68 MW in 2014 and marks an expansion...
Washington: A bipartisan group of US senators introduced legislation aimed at imposing financial sanctions on foreign entities that continue to purchase Russian oil, seeking to choke off a major source of revenue for Moscow’s war effort in Ukraine. The Decreasing Russian Oil Profits (DROP) Act...
New York: US President Donald Trump, a strict teetotaler, has agreed with his Chief of Staff Susie Wiles’s observation that he has an “alcoholic’s personality”, and both put a positive spin on it as a single-minded pursuit of aims. “I’ve said that many times about...
Washington: Susie Wiles, President Donald Trump's understated but influential chief of staff, criticised Attorney General Pam Bondi's handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case and broadly defended the president's aggressive second administration in a series of interviews published Tuesday in Vanity Fair. Wiles told the magazine...
New Delhi: The Lok Sabha Tuesday passed a bill to raise FDI in the insurance sector to 100 per cent, with a view to providing insurance to all by 2047. Replying to a debate on the Sabka Bima Sabki Raksha (Amendment of Insurance Laws) Bill,...
New Delhi: Lok Sabha Tuesday passed a Bill for repealing or amending 71 obsolete and outdated laws, with Law Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal asserting that the progressive legislation would contribute to ease of living for citizens. Replying to a brief discussion on the Repealing and...
New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) will file a fresh charge sheet against Congress leaders Sonia and Rahul Gandhi apart from others as it has taken cognisance of the latest Delhi Police FIR filed in the National Herald money laundering case, officials said Tuesday. Earlier...
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Tuesday accepted Aroop Biswas's resignation as the sports minister in the wake of the controversy over the mismanagement of football icon Lionel Messi's event recently, a senior leader of the ruling TMC said. Biswas, who had written to...
Washington: President Donald Trump filed a lawsuit Monday seeking USD 10 billion in damages from the BBC, accusing the British broadcaster of defamation as well as deceptive and unfair trade practices. The 33-page lawsuit accuses the BBC of broadcasting a “false, defamatory, deceptive, disparaging, inflammatory,...
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The fresh Indo-US trade deal announced by US President Donald Trump 2 February will see American tariffs on Indian goods...
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For an economy plagued by multiple ailments – a daily depreciating currency, growing household debt, high unemployment and inequality, exodus...
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