NEW DELHI: India and China amid border tensions exchanged views on ways of achieving complete disengagement and resolving the issues along the Line of Actual Control in the Western Sector of India-China border areas, ministry of external affairs (MEA) said in an official press release on Thursday.India and China convened their 29th session of the…
Representative image India‘s gold imports are set to plunge by more than 90% in March from the previous month to hit their lowest level since the COVID pandemic as banks cut imports after record-high prices hit demand, a government official and two bank dealers told Reuters. Lower imports by India, the world’s second biggest consumer…
NEW DELHI: Avinashi Ganeshamurthi, the MDMK MP from Erode, succumbed to a cardiac arrest at 5:05 am on Thursday after allegedly attempting suicide. He had been admitted to the hospital on March 24.The 76-year-old leader was rushed to an Erode hospital in critical condition on Sunday and subsequently transferred to a private hospital in Coimbatore….
NEW DELHI: The Centre has declared eight districts and 21 police stations across five other districts of Nagaland as ‘disturbed’ for a further period of six months till Sept 30, 2024 under the provisions of the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act.After undertaking a further review of the law and order situation in Nagaland, the Centre…
NEW DELHI: External affairs minister S Jaishankar on Wednesday took a jibe at China and said that Beijing has failed to uphold longstanding written agreements with India.Responding to a question on the current state of India’s relations with China during an interaction with the Indian diaspora in Malaysia, the external affairs minister emphasised on the…
MUMBAI: There are now more billionaires in Mumbai’s 603 sq km than there are in Beijing’s over 16,000 sq km. By overtaking the Chinese megalopolis, Mumbai has become Asia’s billionaire capital for the first time.While China has 814 billionaires compared to India’s 271, Mumbai hosts 92 billionaires against 91 in Beijing, Hurun Research‘s 2024 Global…
BENGALURU: The lure of online cricket betting took a tragic turn for a Karnataka family, with the husband running up debts in crores to fund his get-rich-quick endeavour, and the wife, driven to despair by the constant harassment and threats from creditors, ending her life, leaving behind a two-year-old son, reported.Darshan Balu, an assistant engineer…
NEW DELHI: In a faceoff on micro-blogging platform X, finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman and Congress MP Jairam Ramesh traded charges over the Atal Pension Yojana, with govt dismissing charges of coercion and enrollment of beneficiaries without their consent.It all began on Tuesday morning with Ramesh citing a study by the Indian Council of Social Science…
Decathlon, the renowned French sports brand, has set its sights on India, aiming to make it one of its top five markets within the next five years. The company plans to open 10 new stores in India every year, said Steve Dykes, chief retail and countries officer. He said this on the sidelines of an…
Representative image New Delhi: India is preparing a framework to reward the industry and academia for developing copyrights, trademarks and patents in technical textiles, which are meant for non-aesthetic purposes. The textiles ministry has proposed 10 years of exclusive rights for the industry to commercialise the intellectual property (IP) if their funding contribution is at…
