Mumbai: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) decided Friday to leave benchmark interest rate unchanged at four per cent. However, the central bank maintained an accommodative stance as the economy faces heat of the second Covid wave. This is the sixth time in a row...
New Delhi: With marginal or no improvement on vital parameters like poverty, education and hunger, Odisha has slipped to feature in the bottom five states of the third edition of NITI Aayog’s Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) India Index 2020-21. The Index for SDGs evaluates the...
New Delhi: The Delhi government drug controller Thursday informed the high court that Gautam Gambhir's foundation has been found guilty of non-authorised stocking, procuring and distributing Fabiflu medicine used for Covid-19 patients. The drug controller informed the Delhi High Court that action will be taken...
New Delhi: Fugitive diamantaire Mehul Choksi has been produced before a local Magistrate in Dominica to answer charges of his illegal entry into the island country following a court order. Choksi appeared before the magistrate on a wheelchair. Earlier Wednesday, the Dominica High Court ruled...
New Delhi: Fugitive diamantaire Mehul Choksi, who went missing May 23 from Antigua and Barbuda and was captured in Dominica few days later, has said that he was abducted by Indian agents and was given shock with a Taser gun whenever he resisted, according to...
Indore: As many as 32 patients have died of mucormycosis in the last 20 days at a government-run hospital in Madhya Pradesh's Indore city, an official said Wednesday. Of late, several cases of mucormycosis, also known as the black fungus, a serious infection, have been...
New Delhi: There will be no Class XII board exams this year, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Tuesday. His announcement ended weeks of anxiety among students and parents over the Covid-19 situation India. The decision to cancel Class XII exams was taken because of ‘uncertain...
Bhubaneswar: Terming vaccination as a game-changer in most countries in saving lives and economy, Odisha Health Minister Naba Kishore Das Tuesday wrote to Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan, requesting statutory clearance for vaccine procurement from global manufacturers. Mentioning the shortage of vaccine in Odisha, the...
Economy shrinks by record 7.3 per cent in 2020-21 New Delhi: India’s economy contracted by less-than-expected 7.3 per cent in the fiscal year ended March 2021 after growth rate picked up in the fourth quarter, just before the world’s worst outbreak of coronavirus infections hit...
London: British intelligence agencies now believe it is “feasible” that the Covid-19 pandemic began with a coronavirus leak from a Chinese laboratory, a media report said Sunday, prompting UK’s Vaccines Minister Nadhim Zahawi to demand that the WHO must fully investigate the origins of the...
The demonstration by scores of policemen and officers outside the Delhi Police headquarters on 2 November to protest against some...
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More than three years after ethnic violence erupted in Manipur, there is no let-up in the spiral of killings, displacement,...
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The BJP appears to be clueless as to how to handle the people’s fury and the Opposition’s mega rally at...
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By Aakar Patel My thesis is that the Indian state under Hindutva is incompletely communal. I have written about this...
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