Washington: The International Monetary Fund has raised India’s growth projection to 6.6 per cent, an upward trend of 0.2 percentage points, in its latest Global Economic Outlook report. The IMF, in its report released in Washington Tuesday, said that India’s strong growth in the first...
New Delhi: NPCI International Payments Limited (NIPL), the international arm of the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI), said that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with NTT DATA Japan, making a significant step towards Unified Payments Interface (UPI) acceptance in the Japanese...
Mumbai: Benchmark stock indices Sensex and Nifty ended lower Tuesday amid weak trends in Asian and European markets and fresh foreign fund outflows. Reversing its early gains, the 30-share BSE Sensex declined 297.07 points or 0.36 per cent to settle at 82,029.98. During the day,...
New Delhi: Google will invest USD 15 billion over the next five years in setting up an AI hub in India, which will include the country's largest data centre in partnership with Adani Group. The AI hub at Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh will be Google's...
Hong Kong: China's Commerce Ministry said Tuesday it was banning dealings by Chinese companies with five subsidiaries of South Korean shipbuilder Hanwha Ocean in the latest swipe by Beijing at US President Donald Trump's effort to rebuild the industry in America. The ministry also announced...
San Francisco: OpenAI said Monday it is working with chipmaker Broadcom to design its own artificial intelligence computer chips. The two California companies didn't disclose the financial terms of the deal but said they will start deploying the new racks of customised “AI accelerators” late...
New Delhi: Wholesale price inflation (WPI) softened to 0.13 per cent in September on easing in prices of food articles, fuel and manufactured items, government data showed on Tuesday. WPI-based inflation was 0.52 per cent in August and 1.91 per cent in September last year....
New Delhi: In a significant development before Diwali, the Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) in a meeting on Monday decided to allow withdrawal of up to 100 per cent of the ‘eligible balance’ in the PF account, including employee and employer share. The decision was...
New Delhi: India and Canada Monday unveiled an ambitious roadmap to boost cooperation in areas of trade, critical minerals and energy as Canadian Foreign Minister Anita Anand met Prime Minister Narendra Modi and External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar as part of efforts to rebuild ties...
Karachi: The Pakistan Stock Exchange crashed Monday in the wake of military action in Afghanistan and countrywide protests by an extremist religious party, creating uncertainty among investors. The KSE-100 index plunged nearly 3,000 points at the opening, falling to 160,126 from Friday's close of 163,000,...
The fate of UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, whose popularity rating had been alarmingly dipping, was sealed the moment Andy...
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In a disconcerting new report, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has revealed that almost every child in India is...
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By Aakar Patel Last week, on 17 June, it was reported that the ‘US has renamed the Indo-Pacific Command back...
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent criticism of the Indian Foreign Service (IFS) was not merely an expression of frustration. It...
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