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New Delhi: Salaries in India are projected to increase by 9.5 per cent in 2025, compared to an actual increase of 9.3 per cent this year, a report showed Thursday. The engineering manufacturing and retail industries project double-digit increases at 10 per cent, closely followed...

New Delhi: AAP convener Arvind Kejriwal will vacate the chief minister's residence and move to an MP's bungalow in the Lutyens' Delhi Friday, the party said in a statement. Kejriwal, who resigned as Delhi chief minister last month, will live with his family at the...

Hyderabad: Telangana Minister for Forests and Environment, Konda Surekha, has withdrawn her remarks about actor Samantha Ruth Prabhu's divorce from Naga Chaitanya. After Samantha reacted strongly to her comments, Surekha took to 'X' to state that her comments were not meant to hurt her sentiments...

New Delhi: Amid suggestions for excluding food inflation while setting benchmark interest rates, former RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan has said that he is against excluding food prices from headline inflation, as it would erode the 'great faith' of people in the central bank, which has...

Chandigarh: Dera Sacha Sauda chief and rape convict Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh Wednesday walked out of the Sunaria jail in Haryana's Rohtak after he was granted a 20-day parole. During his temporary release period, Singh will stay at the Dera ashram in Barnawa in Uttar...

Imphal: Three persons including an on-duty Manipur Rilfes personnel were killed in a gunfight that broke out between two groups Wednesday over cleaning a plot of land in Ukhrul town as part of 'Swachhata Abhiyan', officials said. Prohibitory orders were imposed and mobile internet services...

Patna: Political strategist-turned-activist Prashant Kishor Wednesday announced the launch of his political outfit Jan Suraaj Party, a much-anticipated move by which he hopes to take the political landscape in Bihar by storm. Kishor also named Manoj Bharti, a Madhubani-born former Indian Foreign Service Officer, as...

Kathmandu: Nepal, Bangladesh and India will ink a long-awaited tripartite agreement Thursday to export electricity to Bangladesh, an official said Wednesday. The agreement will involve the Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA), NTPC Vidyut Vyapar Nigam Limited of India and the Bangladesh Power Development Board (BPDB), according...

Kolkata: The mega rally organised by the Bengal Junior Doctors' Front on Mahalaya, marking the beginning of Devi Paksha, began from College Street. The rally, set to converge at Esplanade, saw a large turnout of medical practitioners, including common people, demanding justice for the doctor...

New Delhi: The Delhi Police has made one of the biggest drug busts ever seen in the city, seizing over 560 kilograms of cocaine estimated to be worth around Rs 2,000 crore, officials said here. A Delhi Police Special Cell team nabbed four people from...