Mumbai, Oct 4 (IANS) Rising inflationary pressure prompted India’s central bank, the RBI, on Wednesday to maintain its key lending rates. According to the Reserve Bank of India’s fourth bi-monthly monetary policy review of 2017-18,…
New Delhi, Oct 4 (IANS) Former Finance Minister P. Chidambaram’s Karti on Wednesday refused to appear before the CBI in an alleged graft case, seeking withdrawal of the summons issued to him till the Supreme…
Dhaka, Oct 4 (IANS) India on Wednesday approved a massive $4.5 billion Line of Credit to Bangladesh for funding infrastructure projects, including shipping, ports, roads and power. “Witnessed signing of $4.5 billion line of credit…
Chennai, Oct 4 (IANS) The Madras High Court on Wednesday ordered issuance of notice to Tamil Nadu Speaker P. Dhanapal in connection with a case filed by the DMK seeking to disqualify 12 former rebel…
Guwahati, Oct 4 (IANS) A war of words on Wednesday between Assam Irrigation Minister Ranjit Dutta and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP R.P. Sarma has embarrassed the party. Sarma, a Lok Sabha member from Tezpur…
New Delhi, Oct 4 (IANS) Online harassment is on the rise in India, with eight out of 10 surveyed reporting to have encountered some form of online harassment, cyberbullying and cyberstalking, global cyber security firm…
Imphal, Oct 4 (IANS) After a long lull, a non-local man aged about 50 years was found shot dead near Manipur University campus near here on Wednesday, police said. The victim had been blindfolded and…
Mumbai, Oct 4 (IANS) Positive global cues, coupled with healthy buying in healthcare, oil and gas and FMCG stocks, pushed the key Indian equity indices higher during the mid-afternoon trade session on Wednesday. Index heavyweights…
Kannur (Kerala), Oct 4 (IANS) Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Wednesday joined the state-wide “Jana Raksha Yatra” being undertaken by Kerala BJP President Kummanem Rajasekheran. On Tuesday BJP chief Amit Shah had launched…
Paris, Oct 4 (IANS) France has approved new anti-terror laws that include easier searches of homes and confining individuals to their home towns, without judicial approval, a media report said. The new law was expected…
Jammu, Oct 4 (IANS) The Pakistani Army resorted to heavy shelling and firing on Wednesday at three places on the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch district, Defence Ministry sources said. Mortars,…
Panchkula (Haryana), Oct 4 (IANS) Officials of the Special Investigation Team of Haryana Police have questioned jailed Dera sect chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh’s close aide Honeypreet. She is likely to be produced in a…
Chennai, Oct 4 (IANS) The Tamil Nadu Film Producers Council on Wednesday said no new Tamil films will release on Friday onwards until the state government removes the additional 10 per cent tax over and…
Barcelona, Oct 4 (IANS) Catalonia will declare independence from Spain in a matter of days, the leader of the autonomous region has said. In his first interview since Sunday’s referendum, Carles Puigdemont told the BBC,…
Mumbai, Oct 4 (IANS) Key Indian equity indices opened on a flat note on Wednesday as investors remained cautious ahead of the monetary policy review outcome of the Reserve Bank of India due later during…
Yangon, Oct 4 (IANS) Myanmar’s National Human Rights Commission on Wednesday said long-term peace and stability should be emphasised upon in the rehabilitation process in the northern Rakhine state. In a statement released after its…
Las Vegas, Oct 4 (IANS) Stephen Paddock, the gunman who killed 59 people and injured more than 500 in Las Vegas on Sunday, set up a number of cameras in and around his hotel suite,…
By Arul Louis United Nations, Oct 4 (IANS) India has dismissed Pakistan’s latest provocation at the General Assembly by raising surgical strikes and Kashmir as a waste of time “symbolic of what holds us all…
Washington, Oct 4 (IANS) US Defence Secretary Jim Mattis said on Tuesday that it was in America’s national interest to stay in a landmark deal clinched between Iran and six world powers to curb Iran’s…
Dhaka, Oct 4 (IANS) The UN said on Tuesday that it would appeal for $430 million in aid from the international community to respond to the Rohingya refugee crisis in Bangladesh, a figure which is…