New Delhi: Delhi residents woke up Tuesday to heavy grey haze darkening the city skies, reduced visibility and the air quality in the 'red zone' after many celebrated Diwali last night by bursting firecrackers beyond the two-hour limit set by the Supreme Court. According to...
Washington: President Donald Trump and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese signed a critical-minerals deal at the White House on Monday as the US eyes the continent's rich rare-earth resources when China is imposing tougher rules on exporting its own critical minerals abroad. The two leaders...
London: Amazon says a massive outage of its cloud computing service has been resolved as of Monday evening, after a problem disrupted internet use around the world, taking down a broad range of online services, including social media, gaming, food delivery, streaming and financial platforms....
New Delhi: The Indian economy continues to exhibit resilience amid an uncertain external environment, and remains poised to register high growth, The RBI’s October Bulletin said Monday. Indicators of capacity utilisation and domestic demand signalled improvement. Lead indicators of manufacturing and services continued to show...
Mumbai: Renowned comic actor and Hindi film veteran Govardhan Asrani, known by his stage name, Asrani, has passed away at the age of 84. The cause of his death was unknown at the time of filing the report. His last rites were performed at Santacruz...
Guwahati: Two senior officers of the Assam Police reached Singapore Monday to investigate the death of singer Zubeen Garg in the island nation last month, officials said. A Special Investigation Team (SIT) under the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the Assam Police is at present...
New Delhi: Various diplomatic missions, including those of Finland, Israel, Austria, Brazil, the European Union, and Switzerland, Monday extended wishes to people on the occasion of Diwali. The Finnish Embassy in India celebrated Diwali with a quiz, lunch, and dance. While extending wishes to people...
Patna: The Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) Monday announced its list of 143 candidates for the Bihar assembly polls, five of whom would end up contesting against nominees of the other INDIA bloc constituents. The list was released hours before the filing of nomination papers for...
New Delhi: The Bengaluru police have registered a case of abetment to suic*de against Ola founder and CEO Bhavish Aggarwal and senior executive Subrath Kumar Das after an employee allegedly took his own life. The deceased, 38-year-old K Aravind, is said to have left behind...
Beijing: China's ruling Communist Party Monday commences a key meeting to finalise a new five-year plan amid concerns over an economic slowdown driven by US trade tensions and a sweeping purge at the top of the military. The Communist Party of China, headed by President...
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