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New Delhi/Paradeep: Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA), chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi Wednesday approved the construction of a new coastal highway from Rameshwar to Paradeep on Hybrid Annuity Model (HAM) in Odisha. The highway will reportedly be constructed under two packages with a...

Mumbai: Benchmark indices Sensex and Nifty closed lower Wednesday after a day's breather, dragged by heavy selling in IT stocks, a fresh spike in crude oil prices and persistent foreign fund outflows. The 30-share BSE Sensex dropped 303.67 points, or 0.41 per cent, to settle...

London: Google must allow news sites to opt out of having their online content scraped to feed AI overviews and other artificial intelligence services and features for British users, regulators said Wednesday. The Competition and Markets Authority said it was ordering Google to give online...

New Delhi: The government Wednesday approved a one-time budgetary support of Rs 10,000 crore for oil marketing companies to provide ATF price stabilisation to Indian airlines for domestic and international operations amid challenges posed by the West Asia conflict. Announcing the decision, I&B Minister Ashwini...

New Delhi: India is engaged with the US on the Section 301 investigations over concerns related to forced labour and excess industrial capacity, the government said Wednesday. The country is also "parallelly" engaged with the US for finalisation of an interim trade agreement, a framework...

Mumbai: Debunking reports of gold sale, the Reserve Bank of India on Wednesday said there is no change in the physical stock of gold, which remains unchanged at 880.52 tonnes. The clarification from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) comes following reports that the RBI...

Washington: US Trade Representative has proposed slapping 12.5 per cent additional duties on 54 countries, including India, for “failing to prohibit the import of goods produced with forced labour”. The action follows investigations launched against 60 countries over what the USTR described as their “failure”...

California: Hackers have reportedly manipulated Meta's AI-powered support chatbot to gain control of several prominent Instagram accounts, according to cybersecurity researchers. Among the accounts said to have been compromised in recent days are a former White House Instagram account from the Obama administration, which still...

Not very long ago, most people checked their credit scores only after something went wrong. Usually after: a rejected loan application a delayed approval a sudden banking issue For many young borrowers, credit reports felt like technical financial documents that only banks cared about. That...

New Delhi: The government will gradually phase out the Wholesale Price Index (WPI) and introduce a detailed Producer Price Index (PPI) covering output, input and services prices, in a bid to offer a more realistic assessment of inflationary trends in the economy. Addressing media on...