RAE BARELI: Weeks of ‘will-he-won’t-he’ culminated Friday in Congress naming Rahul Gandhi as the candidate in the family bastion of Rae Bareli on the final day for nominations, setting the stage for the Gandhis and an entourage of loyalists to air-dash to the UP constituency just in time for the Wayanad MP to file his…
LAS VEGAS: Google has added Bengali, Tamil and Telugu, among 52 additional languages it has announced, to its ‘Workspace’ — a platform with 3 billion users comprising AI-powered apps like Gmail, Chat, Meet, Calendar, Drive and Docs.The tech giant is seeing “India as a strong market with Workspace, both in consumer space as well as…
NEW DELHI: Strong growth in India continued to reap rich dividends for Apple as CEO Tim Cook said the company is “very, very pleased” after scoring a double-digit revenue growth here.Cook spoke about Apple’s growing engagement in India across retail functions and developer ecosystem as he pointed to sustainability efforts initiated by the company in…
AMETHI: Sonia Gandhi’s man Friday Kishori Lal Sharma, who is well-versed with Amethi and Rae Bareli, where he has been working for the party for over four decades, will take on BJP’s Smriti Irani in Amethi Lok Sabha seat. Sharma filed his nomination paper after the party announced his name on Friday morning.Thanking the party…
The RBI has suggested more stringent rules for project funding, which will increase the cost for lenders when offering loans for infrastructure and industrial projects such as roads, ports, and power plants. The new regulations mandate that lenders reserve 5% of the funds they have provided as a precaution for both current and future loans….
BENGALURU: JD(S) MP Prajwal Revanna’s father HD Revannafiled a second anticipatory bail petition before a court Friday, a day after a kidnapping case was registered against him, even as SIT probing the sleaze video scandal issued a second notice to the father-son duo to appear before it Saturday in connection with a sexual harassment case.Hours…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court has asked Centre to furnish details of issuance of notices and arrests done under the provisions of the Goods and Services Tax, saying it may interpret the law and lay down appro-priate guidelines to avoid any har-assment of citizens by depriving their liberty.A special bench of justices Sanjeev Khanna, MM…
Caste is ever centre stage in India’s dance of ‘democracy’. Politicians invariably keep caste equations in mind when addressing rallies. One slip of tongue can cause an irreversible slide.Which is where Rajya Sabha member Parshottam Rupala, MoS for fisheries, animal husbandry and dairying, may have found himself after his comment on Kshatriyas. But that’s not…
JAMMU: The J&K state investigation agency (SIA) Friday attached the property of an absconding terrorist, Abdul Hameed Khan, in Jammu’s Rajouri district under section 33 of the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA).A SIA spokesperson said the attachment was in connection with an FIR case registered in 2021 against Abdul, a resident of Manjakote tehsil in…
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan, in collaboration with China, launched its first-ever lunar mission, iCube-Qamar, from the Chinese city of Hainan on Friday, with authorities saying the satellite will orbit the moon as part of Beijing’s Chang’e-6 space mission.The launch of the satellite on board a Chinese Long March5 Y8 rocket was shown live on Pakistani TV stations…
