IMPHAL: A father-son pair was among three farmers fatally shot by suspected militants while tilling their fields in a village of Manipur’s Bishnupur around 4.30pm on Thursday, stretching a sequence of violence that started early Wednesday with two police commandos being killed in Moreh and a village defence volunteer later dying in a gunfight in…
New Delhi: Footwear retail chain Metro Brands on Thursday reported a 12.57 per cent decline in consolidated net profit to Rs 98.78 crore for the third quarter ended December 2023. The company had posted a net profit of Rs 112.99 crore during the October-December period a year ago, according to a regulatory filing from Metro…
Representative image Demand for lifestyle products and apparel remained weak despite retailers offering discounts of as much as 65% during their ongoing end of season sales (EOSS). Most brands also advanced their EOSS by two weeks to early December compared to January, hoping to mop up sales before ecommerce platforms begin their Republic Day sales….
MUMBAI: The recent rally in the stock price of life insurance major LIC on Wednesday helped it replace banking major SBI as the most valued government-run company in the country. At the close of the day’s trade, LIC had a market capitalisation of Rs 5.61 lakh crore compared to SBI’s Rs 5.59 lakh crore, BSE…
NEW DELHI: Telecom and IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said that India is seen as a trusted partner by companies and countries across the world, and country is eyeing $100 billion in annual FDI “in the next few years”.“There is a big amount of trust when it comes to India. That is our biggest capital. For…
NEW DELHI: Navy will begin deploying a small batch of women Agniveers, who now number 1,119 in the force, as sailors on frontline warships, towards end-Feb to join the almost 50 women officers already serving on them.Lt Commander Prerna Deosthalee is also set to soon take over as the first woman commanding officer of a…
NEW DELHI: Two years prior to the nationwide ‘Me Too’ movement, a Muslim woman in 2016 had lodged an FIR at a police station in Assam accusing a Hindu man of sexually assaulting her in 1982 when she was a minor and cited birth of a male child in 1983 to corroborate the rape, a…
China’s ruling Communist Party is facing a national emergency. To fix it, the party wants more women to have more babies. It has offered them sweeteners, like cheaper housing, tax benefits and cash. It has also invoked patriotism, calling on them to be “good wives and mothers”. China’s population was 1,409,670,000 (or 1.4 billion) at…
KOLKATA: In a first, Calcutta HC established Wednesday a joint special investigation team (SIT) comprising both CBI and Bengal police to investigate the attack on ED officers in Sandeshkhali on Jan 5. “To unearth the truth and apprehend the miscreants responsible, a concerted effort is required from both central and state agencies,” HC said, while…
Nearly 43% of children in the 14-18 age group cannot read sentences in English, while among their rural counterparts, 25% struggle to read a Class 2 level text in their respective regional language, shows the Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) 2023. And more than half of the children in rural areas struggle with even…
