New Delhi: India's services sector continued to register robust growth in April on the back of strong domestic and foreign demand, which lifted business confidence to a three-month high, according to an HSBC survey published Monday. The HSBC final India Services Purchasing Managers' Index, compiled by S&P Global, came in at 60.8 in April, which was marginally...

New Delhi: Girls outshone boys yet again in Class-X and XII board exams conducted by the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE), while the pass percentage for both the classes recorded an increase. The results were announced Monday morning. The board also discontinued the practice of issuing merit lists from this year to avoid unhealthy...

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister and Biju Janata Dal president Naveen Patnaik Monday termed Prime Minister Narendra Modi's claim that BJP will form government in Odisha as "daydreaming". Modi addressing two elections rallies at Berhampur and Nabarangpur in Odisha asserted that the expiry date of the BJD government in Odisha is June 4, the day the Assembly election...

Mumbai: Actress Preity Zinta took a trip down memory lane and reminisced about the "tough shoot" of her 1999 film Sangharsh, where she endured injuries including a broken leg, chipped teeth, and a cut lip. Preity Monday engaged in a quick chat session with her fans on X. A user asked if actor Ashutosh Rana’s convincing act...

New Delhi: India and Ghana have agreed to operationalise Unified Payment Interface (UPI) with Ghana Interbank Payment and Settlement Systems within six months in order to enable instant fund transfers for users in both countries, the Commerce Ministry said Monday, The discussions were part of a Joint Trade Committee (JTC) meeting between Indian and Ghanaian officials in...

Tel Aviv: The Israeli military called on residents of eastern Rafah, in southern Gaza, to evacuate to an ‘expanded humanitarian area,’ ahead of a possible offensive. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Monday said that it "encourages" residents of eastern Rafah to move to an expanded humanitarian area in the al-Mawasi refugee camp on the Mediterranean, not far...

New Delhi: Former Chief Minister Hemant Soren moved the Supreme Court Monday against the Jharkhand High Court order dismissing his application challenging his arrest by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in a money laundering case linked to an alleged land scam. Appearing before a three-judge bench headed by Chief Justice DY Chandrachud, senior advocate Kapil Sibal mentioned the...

Dubai: Pakistan’s left-arm fast-bowler Shaheen Shah Afridi, Namibia captain Gerhard Erasmus and UAE skipper Muhammad Waseem have made it to the shortlist for ICC Men’s Player of the Month award for April 2024. Afridi earns the nomination for his wicket-taking endeavours in the side’s drawn T20I series against New Zealand at home. Erasmus was a pivotal figure...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court Monday directed the Maharashtra government to implement its directions such as ensuring disposal of cases, granting compensation to the kith and kin of the missing victims of the 1992 Mumbai riots and undertaking police reforms. Irked over the non-compliance of its directions issued in a judgment of November 4, 2022, a bench...

New Delhi: The reports claiming question paper leak in the medical entrance exam NEET-UG are "completely baseless and without any ground", the National Testing Agency (NTA) clarified Monday. Stressing that every question paper has been "accounted for", the NTA said that purported images of the question paper circulating on social media have no relation with the actual...