Ahmedabad: The Gujarat High Court Monday said it does not have faith in the state machinery "which gets into action only after innocent lives are lost", as it pulled up the Rajkot civic body over the purported lapses in functioning of the game zone facility where a massive fire killed 27 persons. A special bench of Justices...

New Delhi: Leading global financial firm Goldman Sachs has revised its forecast for India’s GDP growth by 10 basis points to 6.7 per cent as it expects the government’s heavy investments in big-ticket infrastructure projects to continue with the huge dividend coming in from the RBI. “Going forward, we expect investment growth momentum to sustain with extra...

Bengaluru: Exactly a month after he left the country, Hassan MP Prajwal Revanna, who is facing charges of sexually abusing several women, has said he will appear before the Special Investigation Team (SIT), probing the cases against him, May 31. Terming the cases against him as "false" and part of a "political conspiracy", he said he had...

New Delhi: India's core monsoon zone covering most of the rain-fed agriculture areas in the country are predicted to receive above-normal rainfall this season, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said Thursday. Below-normal monsoon rainfall is expected in northeast India, normal in northwest, and above-normal in central and south peninsular regions of the country, Director General of IMD...

New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's close aide Bibhav Kumar will approach the High Court after a city court rejected his bail plea in Swati Maliwal 'assault' case, AAP said Monday. A court here Monday dismissed the bail plea of Kumar who is accused of assaulting AAP Rajya Sabha MP Swati Maliwal at the CM's residence...

Khurda: BJP workers held a protest outside the sub-collector office in Odisha's Khurda district Monday, demanding unconditional release of the saffron camp's candidate Prashant Jagdev who was arrested on the charge of vandalising an EVM during the May 25 polling. They also threatened to stage a blockade on the national highway and call for a bandh in...

Mumbai: Sensex scaled the 76,000 level for the first time while Nifty hit a new lifetime peak before closing marginally down in highly volatile trade Monday as investors booked profits in the last 30 minutes of trade. The 30-share BSE Sensex closed lower by 19.89 points or 0.03 per cent lower at 75,390.50. Intra-day, the barometer climbed...

New Delhi: Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) star Virat Kohli said he is happy with the way he performed for his side after bagging the Orange Cap for the IPL 2024 season. Kohli finished the tournament as the highest run-getter with 741 runs in 15 matches including a century and five fifties. He scored at an average of...

Kolkata: Nearly 15,000 houses in 24 blocks and 79 municipal wards, mostly in the southern coastal areas of West Bengal, were affected by Cyclone Remal, a senior official of the state government said Monday. At least 2,140 trees were uprooted in different parts of the state which also witnessed the falling of 337 electric poles, he added....

New Delhi: Samsung Monday launched a new smartphone under its Galaxy F series -- F55 5G, with a 50MP camera in India. The Galaxy F55 5G will be available in three storage variants -- 8GB+128GB, 8GB+256GB, and 12GB+256GB on Flipkart, Samsung.com, and at select retail stores at a starting price of Rs 26,999. The device comes in...