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New Delhi: India's wholesale price-based inflation rose to 11.39 per cent in September, compared to 9.92 per cent in August, on rising prices of food, manufactured items, and fuel and power, government data showed Wednesday. Inflation in the food index rose to 8.66 per cent...

New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi Wednesday lashed out at the Modi government after Cockroach Janta Party leaders Saurav Das and Ashutosh Ranka were sent to judicial custody, saying waving the tricolour at Jantar Mantar in a peaceful protest is not a crime and jailing...

New Delhi/Dhaka: Prime Minister Tarique Rahman's decision to skip the BRICS summit in India was "immature" and damaged Bangladesh's national interest, former PM Sheikh Hasina has said, warning that foreign policy driven by personal reactions or short-term political calculations is inherently counterproductive. Hasina said Bangladesh's...

Hajipur: Rescue operations were underway Wednesday to trace any missing occupants of a boat that capsized in the Ganga river in Bihar's Vaishali district a day ago, resulting in the death of at least 13 children, officials said. Vaishali District Magistrate Varsha Singh said the...

Washington/New Delhi: US Secretary of State Marco Rubio will travel to India next week to further strengthen energy cooperation, the Department of State informed. Rubio will first visit Samarkand in Uzbekistan, and will then travel to Mumbai and Jamnagar in India from October 17-22, it...

Hong Kong: China's exports surged 36.3% in September from a year earlier, its customs agency said Wednesday, as pressure ramped up from its trading partners including the European Union to rebalance trade. The exports data, which was better than what economists had expected, accelerated from...

Washington: Katie Zacharia, the new White House press secretary, faced reporters for the first time Tuesday for a very brief turn at the lectern, taking a handful of questions before abruptly wrapping it up. Zacharia, a conservative commentator who most recently worked for President Donald...

Saint-Denis: Swedish activist Greta Thunberg joined protesters outside a high school in a working-class suburb of Paris Tuesday as French pupils took to the streets for another day of demonstrations over poor learning conditions. Now in its fourth week, the nationwide protest movement over teacher...

New Delhi: As the Election Commission (EC) readies to hold high-stakes Assembly polls in five states, its senior officers, led by deputy election commissioners, have started taking stock of preparations there, with a poll authority team currently on a visit to Uttarakhand. Commission officers will...

Washington: The Trump administration has moved to scrap a rule that lets H-1B and other skilled foreign workers routinely win extensions when their facts have not changed, and has made permanent a separate rule ending automatic renewals of work permits for spouses of H-1B workers...