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New Delhi: Opposition parties on Friday accused the government of ceding diplomatic space after the US announced a temporary waiver to allow Indian refiners to purchase Russian oil, a step that the ruling BJP hailed as a success of "strategic oil diplomacy" under Prime Minister...

New Delhi: Domestic airlines are scheduled to operate 96 flights to and from the Middle East Friday while the carriers have cancelled 278 international services for the day, the government said Friday amid the conflict in the region. The situation in the Middle East has...

New Delhi: A finance ministry report Friday cautioned that prolonged crisis in the Middle East can have adverse implications on the exchange rate and may stoke inflationary pressures on account of rising prices of petroleum goods and fertilisers. Besides, subdued capital flows, accentuated by a...

Amaravati: Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu Friday said social media will be prohibited for children below 13 years of age, within the next 90 days, in the state. Addressing the assembly, the Chief Minister said they are debating whether to extend this ban...

New Delhi: The government Friday directed television rating agency BARC to immediately withhold reporting the Television Rating Points (TRPs) for TV news channels for a period of four weeks or until further orders. The directive has been issued as certain TV news channels are displaying...

London: German media group Axel Springer has agreed to buy the owner of Britain's Daily Telegraph newspaper for 575 million pounds (USD 766 million), the companies announced Friday. The agreement ends a long saga over ownership of the Telegraph Media Group, which publishes the 171-year-old...

Washington: American employers unexpectedly cut 92,000 jobs last month, a sign that the labor market remains under strain. The unemployment rate blipped up to 4.4%. The Labour Department reported Friday that hiring deteriorated from January, when companies, nonprofits and government agencies added 126,000 jobs. Economists...

New Delhi: Electric passenger vehicle retail sales rose 44 per cent year-on-year in February, dealer's body FADA said Friday. The overall sales rose to 13,733 units last month as against 9,505 units in the year-ago period. Tata Motors led the space with registrations of 5,568...

New Delhi: The legal scrubbing of the free trade agreement (FTA) text between India and the 27-nation European Union is likely to be completed by July this year, an official said. On January 27 this year, India and the EU announced the conclusion of negotiations...

New Delhi: The government will use all policy tools and support measures to help domestic exporters deal with the ongoing West Asia crisis, Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal said Friday. He said that the government has set up an inter-ministerial group to look into...