New Delhi: Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal said on Wednesday that the proposed India-Oman free trade agreement (FTA) would open significant opportunities across sectors, including textiles, food processing, automobiles, gems and jewellery, agrochemicals, renewable energy and auto components. Addressing the India-Oman Business Forum in...
New Delhi: The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) summoned the Bangladesh High Commissioner to India, Riaz Hamidullah, Wednesday to convey New Delhi's strong concerns over the deteriorating security environment in Bangladesh. According to the MEA, the Bangladeshi envoy's attention was drawn specifically to the activities...
Kolkata: One more person has been arrested in connection with the vandalism during Lionel Messi's event at Salt Lake Stadium December 13, taking the number of those arrested to six, the Bidhannagar police said Wednesday. Meanwhile, a Special Investigation Team (SIT), formed by the West...
New Delhi: Indian Railways has achieved a major milestone in clean energy use, and by November this year, it will have commissioned 898 MW of solar power for its operations. This is a sharp increase from just 3.68 MW in 2014 and marks an expansion...
Washington: A bipartisan group of US senators introduced legislation aimed at imposing financial sanctions on foreign entities that continue to purchase Russian oil, seeking to choke off a major source of revenue for Moscow’s war effort in Ukraine. The Decreasing Russian Oil Profits (DROP) Act...
New York: US President Donald Trump, a strict teetotaler, has agreed with his Chief of Staff Susie Wiles’s observation that he has an “alcoholic’s personality”, and both put a positive spin on it as a single-minded pursuit of aims. “I’ve said that many times about...
Washington: Susie Wiles, President Donald Trump's understated but influential chief of staff, criticised Attorney General Pam Bondi's handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case and broadly defended the president's aggressive second administration in a series of interviews published Tuesday in Vanity Fair. Wiles told the magazine...
New Delhi: The Lok Sabha Tuesday passed a bill to raise FDI in the insurance sector to 100 per cent, with a view to providing insurance to all by 2047. Replying to a debate on the Sabka Bima Sabki Raksha (Amendment of Insurance Laws) Bill,...
New Delhi: Lok Sabha Tuesday passed a Bill for repealing or amending 71 obsolete and outdated laws, with Law Minister Arjun Ram Meghwal asserting that the progressive legislation would contribute to ease of living for citizens. Replying to a brief discussion on the Repealing and...
New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) will file a fresh charge sheet against Congress leaders Sonia and Rahul Gandhi apart from others as it has taken cognisance of the latest Delhi Police FIR filed in the National Herald money laundering case, officials said Tuesday. Earlier...
Aakar Patel My generation (I am 56) grew up on the expectation that India would compete with China and become...
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