India has emerged as the sole nation among the top five steel producers in the world to witness growth in production during April, while others experienced declines of up to 7%.According to an ET report by Nikita Periwal, China, the global leader in steel production, saw its April output decrease by over 7% year-on-year to…
REPRESENTATIVE IMAGE ONLY Families that flock to textile showrooms to purchase Kancheepuram silk saris for weddings are feeling the heat as renowned saris have become more expensive. Prices of gold have been soaring, straining the budgets of those looking to get married even further. Over the past eight months, the price of Kancheepuram silk saris…
China has started its biggest military exercise in a year around Taiwan in response to the inauguration of Taiwan’s new president, Lai Ching-te. The drills, which Beijing describes as “strong punishment” for Taiwan’s “separatist acts,” involve coordinated operations between the army, navy, air force, and rocket force. The exercises come after Lai’s inauguration speech, which…
NEW DELHI: Dinesh Karthik, the top finisher for Royal Challengers Bengaluru, may have played his final cricket match in the Indian Premier League (IPL).The RCB walked away with their wings melted and scorched after soaring high with six straight victories. Their aspirations of a season straight out of a fairytale were dashed on Wednesday when…
NEW DELHI: Nasa and Boeing are eyeing June 1 as the launch date for the inaugural crewed Starliner spacecraft mission. However, engineers are still investigating a helium leak and analysing its potential impact on critical aspects of the mission, according to a statement from the agency on Wednesday.The helium leak, which was traced to a…
VIJAYAWADA: YSRCP legislator Pinnelli Ramakrishna Reddy is on the run after being charged with destroying a voter-verifiable paper audit trail (VVPAT) machine inside a polling booth in Macharla constituency on May 13, when all of Andhra Pradesh’s 25 Lok Sabha and 175 assembly seats went to the polls.CCTV footage, which has now gone viral, shows…
PUNE: Juvenile Justice Board on Wednesday cancelled the bail of the 17-year-old son of a builder involved in Sunday’s Porsche Taycan crash while allowing police’s application for reviewing the board’s earlier order on Sunday to set him free. Police had sought cancellation of the teen’s bail arguing that he should be tried as an adult…
Adani Group said any suggestion that one of its companies supplied inferior coal is incorrect. “Allegations (in FT report) are false and baseless,” it said. Report on supply of ‘low quality’ coal false, baseless: Adani GroupNEW DELHI: The Adani Group on Wednesday said any suggestion that one of its companies supplied inferior coal to the…
NEW DELHI: Congress on Wednesday launched an attack on PM Modi, highlighting a report in the Financial Times, London, which claimed Adani Group allegedly bought low-quality coal from Indonesia in 2014 and sold it at three times the price in India. It promised to set up a joint parliamentary panel to probe the “scam” if…
LUCKNOW: An alumnus of IIT-Kanpur and IIM-Lucknow, Rahul Verma, was handed down a life sentence by a special CBI court in Lucknow on Wednesday for the murder of 30-year-old Mumbai-based fashion designer Adesh Bajpai, reported.Special CBI judge Anurodh Mishra pronounced the sentence after finding Verma guilty of charges under IPC 302, 364, and 120 B.A…
