Tel Aviv: India and Israel Thursday announced to deepen their digital and financial partnership by enabling cross-border use of Unified Payments Interface (UPI). In the process, UPI will connect with Israel’s domestic payments framework to make digital transactions faster and more affordable. The signing of...
New Delhi: The CBI has registered a fresh case against industrialist Anil Ambani and Reliance Communications (RCOM) for allegedly cheating the Bank of Baroda during 2013-17 causing a wrongful loss of more than Rs 2,220 crore to the bank, officials said Thursday. The case stems...
New Delhi: The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has revised its Civil Aviation Requirements (CAR) related to airline ticket refunds and introduced a 48-hour "look-in" period that allows passengers to cancel or amend their bookings without paying extra charges. In a statement, the aviation...
Kochi: In a significant development that has sent ripples through the film industry and political circles alike, the Kerala High Court Thursday stayed the release of the controversial film Kerala Story 2 for 15 days, just a day before its scheduled theatrical debut. The film,...
New Delhi: India Thursday said the talks between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Canadian counterpart Mark Carney next week will provide an opportunity to advance a forward-looking partnership between the two nations. Carney will undertake a four-day visit to India beginning Friday, in his...
United Nations: External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar has called for an overarching approach to human rights that includes development and capacity-building leading to “tangible improvements in the daily lives of the most vulnerable” and confronting terrorism rather than engaging in polemics of “politicisation, selectivity or...
Bijapur: Two Maoists were killed, and a cache of arms and ammunition was recovered following an encounter with security personnel in the Indravati river area of Bijapur district in Chhattisgarh, officials said Thursday. According to officials, the operation was launched after specific intelligence inputs about...
Kolkata: The Election Commission of India (ECI) has decided to depute one Central observer for each of the 294 Assembly constituencies to oversee the pre-poll nomination phase in West Bengal. Insiders from the office of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO), West Bengal, said that all...
New Delhi: The European Union's Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) will not see any exceptions despite the concluded India-EU Free Trade Agreement (FTA), but both sides have committed to technical discussions to find the best way forward, a senior German environment ministry official said. Jochen...
Washington: The Trump administration’s effort to fast-track deportations to third countries hit a legal setback after a US appeals court refused to pause a lower court order blocking the policy. The US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in Boston Wednesday (local time) denied...
Nepal did what Bangladesh could not. Its Gen Z has transformed its pent-up anger against mainstream political parties and their...
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The insults heaped on India by senior officials of the Trump administration, including the PoTUS himself, that have become all...
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By Aakar Patel I have no problem with the reality that as a nation we cannot always or even mostly...
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