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Mumbai, Aug 17 (IANS) Gold prices have hit a record high amid a rush for safe haven assets owing to the fears of a recession. Goehring & Rozencwajg, a research firm which focuses on investments…

Mumbai, Aug 17 (IANS) Amid global growth concerns and heightened trade tensions, gold prices might cross the Rs 40,000 mark by Diwali, analysts have said. Typically, the demand for gold reflects the expectations about the…

New Delhi, Aug 17 (IANS) As gold prices have been soaring for some time now, experts feel the yellow metal will stay higher in comparison to the oil prices for a prolonged period. A recent…

Mumbai, Aug 17 (IANS) As the global economic scenario remains subdued and trade tensions remain volatile, investors have bet big on the safe haven of gold-backed exchange traded funds (ETF). According to data from the…

New Delhi, Aug 16 (IANS) On May 10, the Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi reserved order on the then Congress President Rahul Gandhi’s plea to close criminal proceedings against him for wrongly attributing the…

New Delhi, Aug 16 (IANS) A five-judge Constitution bench, headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi, concluded in February the arguments and reserved the judgement on a bunch of petitions seeking review of the apex courts…

New Delhi, Aug 16 (IANS) Will thousands of illegal Rohingya migrants get the status of refugees in India or will they be deported? This question is to be decided by the Supreme Court, expectedly before…

New Delhi, Aug 16 (IANS) The vexed seven-decade-old Ayodhya dispute is finally on the fast track in search of a judicial solution, thanks to the day-to-day hearing by a five-member Supreme Court Constitution bench headed…

New Delhi, Aug 16 (IANS) Three months from now, Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi will retire. Before that he is expected to deliver verdicts in some major cases like the Ayodhya land dispute, Sabarimala…

Jaipur, Aug 15 (IANS) After Jaipur and Udaipurs erstwhile royals and Congress leaders claimed to be the descendants of Lord Ram, now Karni Sena patron Lokendra Singh Kalvi has joined the league by proclaiming himself…

By Amita Verma Ayodhya, Aug 15 (IANS) He is ‘Ayodhya Naresh — the king of Ayodhya — and yet he is not a stakeholder in the Ram Janmabhoomi dispute. Vimlendra Mohan Prasad Misra is a…

By Archana Sharma Jaipur, Aug 15 (IANS) Several Rajput families from Rajasthan, including the erstwhile royals of Jaipur and Udaipur, a Congress Minister and partys spokesperson, have joined the league of claimants to the rich…

New Delhi, Aug 15 (IANS) “We are the descendants of Lord Ram.” The chorus of this claim is just growing by the day, cutting across party lines. Interestingly, these claims have found voice against the…

BY VISHAL GULATI Jammu, Aug 14 (IANS) Though living in ‘forced exile’ within their own state for over three decades now, the longing to return to their homeland in the turmoil-hit Kashmir Valley has not…

BY VISHAL GULATI Jammu, Aug 14 (IANS) Striking down of Article 370, which gave Jammu and Kashmir a sense of specialness, is the tipping point as it can further escalate the communal tension in the…

BY VISHAL GULATI Jammu, Aug 14 (IANS) West Pakistan Hindu refugees, whose ancestors had migrated to India during the 1947 partition and settled in the Jammu region, were feeling stateless and cheated even after seven…

Srinagar, Aug 13 (IANS) With extremely low key celebrations, Eid was perhaps never so sombre and subdued in Kashmir. The region has been locked down and is facing a total communication blackout since last week,…

Beijing, Aug 13 (IANS) China, whose forces regularly intrude into Ladakh, stuck to its opposition to the creation of Ladakh Union Territory, with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi telling his Indian counterpart S. Jaishankar that…