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Stronger demand boosts India factory activity in July: PMI

 India’s factory activity accelerated in July as domestic demand and output strengthened, encouraging firms to hire at the fastest rate in five months, a private business survey showed on Thursday. The Nikkei Manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index, compiled by IHS Markit, rose to 52.5 in July from June’s 52.1. […]

In drought-hit Delhi, the haves get limitless water, the poor fight for every drop

NEW DELHI – In this teeming capital city of more than 20 million people, a worsening drought is amplifying the vast inequality between India’s rich and poor. The politicians, civil servants and corporate lobbyists who live in substantial houses and apartments in central Delhi pay very little to […]

Going for growth, India set to borrow more – economists

BENGALURU – India’s government will turn on the fiscal taps in the federal budget on Friday and revise its borrowing target slightly higher for this year and next, prompted by a slowing economy and weak jobs growth, a Reuters poll of economists showed. After winning a second term […]

The act of lynching is unlawful says Supreme Court

every citizen has to abide by the law and the law never confers the power on a citizen to become the law unto himself or take law into his hands Guidelines of Supreme Court laid in case tiled as ” Tehseen S. Poonawalla …Petitioner(s) Versus Union of India […]

Om Birla chosen as Lok Sabha speaker

New Delhi, Jun 19: Rajasthan MP Om Birla was on Wednesday chosen as speaker of the Lok Sabha. The motion to choose Birla as the speaker was moved by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is also Leader of the House, and passed by a voice vote “That Shri Om […]

Cyclone Vayu turns “very severe”, advances towards Gujarat

Mumbai, Jun 12: Mumbai and some neighbouring coastal areas of Maharashtra witnessed a windy Wednesday morning as cyclone ‘Vayu’ turned into a “very severe cyclonic storm”, the weather department said. As the cyclone continued to progress towards Saurashtra and Kutch regions of neighbouring Gujarat, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) […]

India suspends Kashmir border trade with Pakistan

India has suspended trade across its disputed Kashmir border with Pakistan, alleging that weapons and drugs are being smuggled across the route, as tensions simmer between the nuclear-armed neighbours. Kashmir has been on edge since a February suicide attack that killed 40 Indian paramilitaries and brought the two […]

India to be among top-10 media markets by 2021: Study

New Delhi :  India is expected to be among the top-10 entertainment and media markets globally by 2021 in terms of absolute numbers, according to a joint study by ASSOCHAM-PwC. The country’s per capita media and entertainment spending is likely to be capped at USD 32 or Rs 2,080 […]

India, Pakistan spar over alleged religious conversion of Hindu girls

NEW DELHI/ISLAMABAD  – India and Pakistan are quarrelling over reports of an alleged kidnapping and religious conversion of two Hindu girls in mostly Muslim Pakistan last week. The spat began on Sunday when India’s Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj tweeted that she had asked the country’s high commissioner in […]

India, Pakistan threatened to unleash missiles at each other – sources

NEW DELHI/ISLAMABAD – The sparring between India and Pakistan last month threatened to spiral out of control and only interventions by U.S. officials, including National Security Advisor John Bolton, headed off a bigger conflict, five sources familiar with the events said. At one stage, India threatened to fire […]

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