- Wednesday, March 12, 2025
IN a news that would leave economic experts a worried lot, India's foreign exchange reserves reached their lowest point in 15 months as the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), the country's central bank, probably increased its intervention to back the rupee which has witnessed a free fall amid foreign capital…
INDIA'S current account deficit, meaning a shortfall between the imports and exports, is expected to deteriorate in 2022-23 if recession concerns do not lead to a sustained and meaningful reduction in the prices of food and energy commodities, the country's finance ministry said in its latest Monthly Economic Review report.…
THE Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras retained the top spot among institutes in the country for the fourth consecutive year whereas the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bengaluru was the best university and research institution, according to India's ministry of education’s National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) rankings. The seventh…
INDIA'S holy city of Varanasi, which showcases the South Asian nation's culture and traditions over the ages, is set to be declared the first 'Cultural and Tourism Capital' of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) grouping, its secretary general Zhang Ming said in Beijing, China, on Friday (15). The SCO, which…
AT a time when digital material is often accused of crossing the line, India's Narendra Modi government is likely to bring in laws to regulate the country's digital media. Under the new legislation, the same media could consequences for violations under the Registration of Press and Periodicals Bill, India Today…
IN a shocking revelation, a woman in her mid-30s committed suicide after she was allegedly forced to undergo abortions by her live-in partner as many as 14 times! The incident happened in Delhi. According to police, the woman took the drastic step in Jaitpur area of Southeast Delhi on July…
IT is very difficult to fool eagle-eyed netizens and the same was proved once again on Thursday (14) when former Indian Premier League (IPL) chairman Lalit Modi revealed on Twitter that he is dating model-turned-actor Sushmita Sen. The news spread like wildfire even though the 56-year-old, who lives in the…
CANADIAN ministers have strongly condemned the vandalisation of a statue of Mahatma Gandhi located at a temple in the Greater Toronto Area and local law-enforcement forces were investigating the incident as a "hate-motivating" one, India's Hindustan Times daily reported. The 20-feet-tall bronze statue situated in Peace Park at a Vishnu…
PINARAYI Vijayan, the chief minister of the southern Indian state of Kerala, on Thursday (14) said the state has now become the first and only in the country to have its own internet service. The announcement came in the wake of the Kerala Fiber Optic Network Ltd (KFON), an ambitious…
MORE than 20,000 people have been shifted to relief camps at different places in Telangana as officials on Thursday (14) geared up to deal with rising water levels in the Godavari river at Bhadrachalam town in the state. Several localities in Bhadradri-Kothagudem and other districts in the state remained inundated…
