MUMBAI, July 16 – Summer-sown crop planting in India has been lagging as central and northern parts of the country received scant rainfall, the government said on Friday, raising concerns about food grain production and inflation in Asia’s third biggest economy. India is the world’s biggest exporter of […]
Lucknow, Jul 17: Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Saturday demanded that the recent panchayat elections held in Lakhimpur Kheri district of Uttar Pradesh be cancelled, and re-polls be held. She was speaking to reporters after reaching Semra village in Pathgava block of the district. On July 9, […]
Amethi (UP) Jul 16: A 16-year-old girl was allegedly abducted and raped for five days by a youth here, police said on Friday. According to the family of the girl, she had gone to fill water from a hand pump near her house on July 9 when the […]
Mumbai, Jul 16: Mumbai police have registered a case against T-Series company’s managing director Bhushan Kumar, son of music baron late Gulshan Kumar, for allegedly raping a woman on the promise of providing a job to her, an official said on Friday. The offence was registered at D […]
New Delhi, Jul 16: India recorded 38,949 new COVID-19 cases, which took the infection tally to 3,10,26,829, while the death toll reached 4,12,531 with 542 more fatalities, according to Union health ministry data updated on Friday The active cases have declined to 4,30,422 and comprise 1.39 per cent […]
Summary India bans new Mastercard issuance after data storage row Mastercard counts India as a key growth market Indian banks seen facing the heat as Mastercard is big player NEW DELHI, July 15 – India’s decision to ban Mastercard Inc (MA.N) for non-compliance with data storage rules has unsettled the […]
NEW DELHI, July 15 – A rise in India’s COVID-19 infection rate is worrying authorities who are concerned that pilgrimages and tourism could prove to be “superspreader” events in the battle to douse a devastating second wave of infections that has killed thousands. In a pilgrimage this month, […]
New Delhi, Jul 14: The country’s largest carmaker Maruti Suzuki India (MSI) is planning to invest around Rs 18,000 crore on a new manufacturing facility in Haryana, as per a top company official. The new plant would replace the company’s Gurugram-based facility and is expected to have an installed […]
New Delhi, Jul 14: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Maldivian President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih on Wednesday reviewed the progress of India-supported development projects in the archipelagic nation and expressed satisfaction at the rapid pace of implementation despite the constraints of the COVID-19 pandemic. Modi spoke over the phone with […]
New Delhi, Jul 15: Concerned over ?enormous misuse? of the colonial era penal law on sedition, the Supreme Court on Thursday asked the Centre as to why it was not repealing the provision used by the British to ?silence? people like Mahatma Gandhi to suppress freedom movement Agreeing […]
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