representative image India’s gold consumption in 2023 dropped by 3% from the previous year to 747.5 tonnes, according to World Gold Council (WGC) data, as price increase dampened jewellery sales. Demand for gold jewellery in 2023 dropped by 6% to 562.3 tonnes compared with 2022, WGC data released on Wednesday showed. The year, however, saw…
Deep discord fuelled by competing ambitions and differing strategies became more apparent within INDIA bloc following JD(U)’s exit from the alliance. Despite sharing a common goal of countering BJP in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, internal conflicts have undermined the bloc formed in July 2023. CM Mamata Banerjee announces TMC will contest Lok Sabha polls…
NEW DELHI: Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) chief Chirag Paswan, whose feud with Nitish Kumar pulled down JDU’s tally in 2020 Bihar assembly polls, has said that he has no problem with JD(U) returning to NDA, but cautioned the BJP leadership about Bihar CM’s propensity to flip sides.Chirag, who discussed the fast-paced developments in Bihar…
NEW DELHI: Two BSF personnel killed during a UN peacekeeping mission in Congo and current DG (law and order) in UP Police Prashant Kumar, popularly called the “encounter specialist”, were honoured for gallantry on Republic Day eve, which saw 1,132 personnel from the police, fire services, home guards, civil defence and correctional service being named…
NEW DELHI: The TMC on Thursday put the blame squarely on Congress’s Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury after a seat-sharing deal failed to materialize between the two parties.Trinamool Congress leader Derek O’Brien said that there were three reasons why the alliance didn’t work out in West Bengal: Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury and Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury.His…
Representative image The Directorate General of Foreign Trade (DGFT) has urged the Gem & Jewellery Export Promotion Council to popularise jewellery exports through e-commerce and to position India as a top supplier, design creator and value-adding hub for gold jewellery. Santosh Kumar Sarangi, Director General of DGFT said, “India stands as one of the largest…
NEW DELHI: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Monday issued a fresh summons to Jharkhand chief minister Hemant Soren and asked him to record a statement in a money laundering case between January 27 and 31.The fresh summons comes days after a team of ED questioned the Jharkhand chief minister in connection with the Ranchi land…
Holy men on a mission to civil servants who defied their superiors, here are some of the protagonists of Ram Janmabhoomi movementRaghubar DasThe Nirmohi Akhara mahant moved a local court in 1885 for permission to build a ‘mandap’ for Ram’s worship on the ‘chabutra’, or platform, in front of Babri Masjid. After his plea was…
NEW DELHI: The ministry of civil aviation on Sunday confirmed the aircraft, that crashed in Afghanistan, was a Moroccan-registered DF-10 (Dassault Falcon), and not an aircraft operated by Indian carriers. This update comes amid initial reports that mistakenly identified the aircraft as Indian. In an official statement, the ministry said that the DF-10, operating as…
NEW DELHI: A Supreme Court bench of then CJI Ranjan Gogoi and Justices S A Bobde, D Y Chandrachud, Ashok Bhushan and S Abdul Nazeer had settled a more than 150-year-old Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid land dispute through a unanimous verdict in November 2019 by allowing construction of Ram Temple at the disputed site in Ayodhya,…
