MUMBAI: RBI began its rate-cutting cycle in Feb with a 25 basis point reduction in the repo rate, but deposit rates have largely remained unchanged. While banks have passed on the benefit to home loan borrowers, the impact on depositors has been limited.According to RBI data, the weighted average domestic term deposit rate (WADTDR) stood…
AHMEDABAD: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi is learnt to have told party members that there should be no reservation in naming a group that is targetted, as he reiterated that Congress stands for all religions and groups.Rahul is learnt to have mentioned that a community, be it Christian, Muslim, Sikh, OBC or deprived classes, be named….
KOLKATA: Stoked by veteran Trinamool MP Sougata Ray‘s “he should be removed as (party’s Lok Sabha) chief whip and none (in the party) likes him” comment and his WhatsApp texts in a closed group being gleefully shared by Bengal BJP, TMC MP and senior lawyer Kalyan Banerjee launched an unprecedented fusillade against a party MP,…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi NEW DELHI: PM Modi Tuesday aggressively defended the amendments to the Waqf Act, asserting these were necessary to neutralise the changes made by the Congress-led UPA as part of “politics of appeasement“, which primarily served the interests of fundamentalists and land grabbers, and had also led to India’s Partition.“The 2013 changes…
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court on Tuesday quashed the CBI probe ordered by Calcutta high court against those responsible for preparation of a note based on which the West Bengal cabinet had allowed creation of supernumerary posts for appointment of teachers in May 2022 and said attaching criminality to cabinet decisions would be devastating for the…
DEHRADUN: Uttarakhand high court, while hearing three petitions against non-renewal of licences of six liquor vends in Rishikesh on the ground that these are located near “holy places”, said: “It is an irony that only a particular place is called a ‘holy place’ when the entire state is called Dev Bhoomi.” HC reprimanded the excise…
File photo: US President Donald Trump (Picture credit: AP) US President Donald Trump has once again defended his aggressive trade policies, claiming that the United States is now “pouring in” billions of dollars from newly implemented tariffs on foreign imports. Speaking from the East Room of the White House on Tuesday while signing a series…
NEW DELHI: Frowning upon the Tamil Nadu governor for acting in violation of constitutional provisions by sitting on bills forwarded to him after being passed by the state assembly, Supreme Court, in an extraordinary and first-of-its-kind decision, held that 10 bills reserved by the governor be deemed to have been assented by him, and fixed…
NEW DELHI: PM Narendra Modi discussed ways to further strengthen the India-UAE Comprehensive Strategic Partnership – especially in the areas of trade, investments, defence, energy, technology, education, sports and people-to-people ties – in a meeting on Tuesday with visiting Dubai Crown Prince Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, who is also deputy PM…
JALANDHAR/CHANDIGARH: A grenade explosion targeting the Jalandhar residence of BJP national executive member Manoranjan Kalia Tuesday – the 22nd ‘terror strike’ in Punjab since last Sept – triggered a trail of conspiracy theories linking ISI and the Lawrence Bishnoi gang to the attack and prompted the govt to shunt out state intelligence chief R K…
