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New Delhi/Washington: As the US reciprocal tariffs deadline looms, hectic parleys are currently underway in Washington, DC, between officials of India and the US on finalising the proposed interim trade deal in the next couple of days. While New Delhi is seeking greater market access...

New Delhi: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and his American counterpart Pete Hegseth have agreed to firm up a 10-year framework to further expand defence and strategic ties between India and the US. The decision on the defence framework was mentioned in a Pentagon statement that...

Redmond: Microsoft is firing thousands of workers, its second mass layoff in months. The tech giant began sending out layoff notices Wednesday. The company declined to say how many people would be laid off but said that it will comprise less than 4% of the...

Redmond: Microsoft is firing thousands of workers, its second mass layoff in months. The tech giant began sending out layoff notices Wednesday. The company declined to say how many people would be laid off but that it will comprise less than 4 per cent of...

New Delhi: The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) sees the RBI's advisory to banks to integrate the Financial Fraud Risk Indicator (FRI) developed by it into their systems as a "watershed moment in the fight against cyber-enabled financial frauds". The RBI’s advisory to all scheduled commercial...

New Delhi: The Congress Wednesday slammed the Centre over the rise in the per capita debt of individual borrowers and said the government is constantly trying to hide the real shortcomings by taking the help of statistics and experts, but the debt burden on the...

Mumbai: Overall hiring for white collar jobs grew by 20 per cent year-on-year in June, mainly driven by opportunities in Tier II markets, a report said Wednesday. According to Foundit Insights Tracker, which is based on online job posting activity on Foundit.in platform, India's Tier...

Mumbai: Benchmark indices Sensex and Nifty pared early gains to end lower Wednesday, dragged down by selling pressure in HDFC Bank, L&T and Reliance Industries shares ahead of the impending US tariff deadline. Flight of foreign capital from markets and a mixed trend in global...

New Delhi: State Bank of India has decided to classify the loan account of beleaguered telecom firm Reliance Communications as "fraud" and to report the name of its erstwhile director -- Anil Ambani to the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), according to a regulatory filing....

Colombo: The IMF has completed the fourth review of Sri Lanka's USD 2.9 billion bailout programme, allowing the country to draw a USD 350 million tranche from the four-year facility. Amid the island's unprecedented economic crisis, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in March 2023 approved...