NEW DELHI – When a toxic smog darkened the skies over the Indian capital last weekend and air pollution peaked to its highest levels this year, Nabeela Moinuddin and Fareeda, living on opposite sides of the economic divide, were panic-stricken for their families. Moinuddin corralled her husband, their […]
BENGALURU – Moody’s Investors Service cut India’s ratings outlook to “negative” from “stable”, citing increasing risks that Asia’s third largest economy will grow at a slower pace than in the past, sending stock markets nearly 1% lower at Friday’s close. The cut in outlook partly reflected government and […]
MUMBAI, India – India has increased security a week before the Supreme Court rules on a disputed religious site that has been fiercely contested by majority Hindus and Muslims for decades, police and home ministry officials said on Friday. More than 5,000 paramilitary force members and police have […]
New Delhi, Nov 8: Lawyers at all the six district courts here continued to boycott work for the 5th consecutive day on Friday with advocates and personnel staff of the bar associations doing the security checks of the people entering the premises. Bar associations of district courts said the […]
Mumbai, Nov 8 Hours after Devendra Fadnavis resigned as Maharashtra Chief Minister amid continuing impasse over power-sharing talks with ally Shiv Sena, Congress leaders met NCP chief Sharad Pawar at his residence here. Speaking to the media after the meeting at Pawar’s residence “Silver Oak”, state Congress president Balasaheb […]
Agartala, Nov 8: Senior CPI(M) leader Badal Chowdhury, arrested in a corruption case, was on Friday remanded to judicial custody for three days but he asserted that he was framed and would come out clean. Chowdhury, a CPI(M) central committee member who was the PWD minister during the Left […]
New Delhi, Nov 8: Former basketball player James Donaldson and Indian mountaineer Deeya Suzannah Bajai were on Friday named the global brand ambassadors of Sukarya, a women-centric NGO. Donaldson, the former NBA star from Seattle, USA, has played for NBA for almost two decades, while Deeya has successfully climbed […]
Chandigarh, Nov 8: Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Friday ordered the state’s agriculture department to work out the modalities for immediate implementation of the Supreme Court orders on providing financial assistance to small and marginal farmers who had not burnt any paddy straw. The chief minister also ordered […]
Mumbai, Nov 8: Devendra Fadnavis on Friday resigned as Maharashtra chief minister, five years and a week after he assumed the state’s top job, as an aggressive Shiv Sena rebuffed all attempts to form an alliance government. Fadnavis, 49, drove to Raj Bhavan and handed over his resignation to […]
New Delhi, Nov 7: The Delhi government has demanded more onions from the Centre for distribution in the city, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said on Thursday after a sudden rise in the vegetable’s price. The retail price of onions has risen by 45 per cent in the past […]
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