Mumbai : Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis Friday said port development had gained momentum due to huge amount of funds being disbursed under the Centre’s ‘Sagarmala’ programme. Under the Union Ministry of Shipping’s Sagarmala programme, 415 projects, at an estimated investment of approximately Rs 8 lakh crore, have been […]
London : Fugitive billionaire diamantaire Nirav Modi, accused in the USD 2 billion PNB fraud case, is living openly in a swanky 8-million pound apartment in London’s West End and is now involved in a new diamond business, a British daily reported on Saturday. Modi, 48, is currently living […]
Chennai : Prices of all commodities remained unchanged on the opening day in the wholesale foodgrain market here today. Following are the wholesale rates of various agri-commodities (rates in rupees per quintal, unless stated otherwise):Thoor Dal Rs 8,400, Urad Dal Rs 7,500, Moong Dal Rs 8,000, Gram Dal Rs […]
Helsinki : Finnish Prime Minister Juha Sipila tendered his centre-right government’s resignation on Friday after it failed to push a through a social and health care reform package, the president’s office announced. “Prime Minister Juha Sipila has submitted the resignation of the government to President of the Republic Sauli […]
Washington : President Donald Trump will be making a significant request for border wall funds and seeking money to stand up Space Force as a new branch of the military in the White House budget being released next week, an administration official said Friday. For the first time, Trump […]
Washington : A World Bank arbitration panel ruled on Friday that Venezuela must pay US oil giant ConocoPhillips more than 8 billion as compensation for a decade-old expropriation dispute, roughly the same amount as the South American country’s foreign currency reserves. The bank’s ICSID tribunal had ruled in 2013 […]
Singapore : An American military official says that the US, Australia, India and Japan continue to have regular diplomatic meetings to “coordinate our respective visions of and efforts in the Indo-Pacific region.” Pentagon spokesman Lt. Col Dave Eastburn made the comments late Friday in Washington to clarify that the […]
Washington : Amidst reports of negotiations for a deal with china hitting a bump, President Donald Trump has said that he will enter into a trade deal with Beijing only if he is confident that it is good for the US. But he also told reporters at the White […]
New Delhi : Taking a swipe at Attorney General K K Venugopal’s fresh remark on Rafale documents, senior Congress leader P Chidambram Saturday said that from “stolen documents” they became “photocopied documents” as the “thief” may have returned them. His jibe came a day after the attorney general said […]
Jammu : The Jammu and Kashmir administration has approved rehiring of lecturers and teachers on academic arrangement for continued academic activities, an official said on Saturday. The sanction was accorded at the meeting of state administrative council (SAC), headed by Governor Satya Pal Malik, here on Friday, the official […]
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