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New Delhi: Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal Monday refuted a report that claimed India allegedly rejected a quick trade agreement with the US in recent trade negotiations, calling it "completely false" and "baseless". In a post on X, Goyal said: "This news is completely...

New Delhi: Supreme Court Monday asked the Centre to place before it within two weeks the rules framed under the Bharatiya Vayuyan Adhiniyam, 2024, which is aimed at modernising India's aviation sector. A bench of Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta said the rules be...

New Delhi: Educator and climate activist Sonam Wangchuk has lost 8.2 kg since his indefinite hunger strike at Jantar Mantar began, and his blood glucose level has dropped to 67 mg/dL, Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) said Monday, with its founder Abhijeet Dipke urging the Centre...

Patna: Jan Suraaj Party founder Prashant Kishor and BJP's Neeraj Kumar Sinha Monday filed their nomination papers for the bypoll to Bankipur Assembly seat in Bihar. Kishor, who seeks to wrest the BJP bastion vacated by its national president Nitin Nabin a couple of months...

New Delhi: Retail inflation climbed to 4.38 per cent in June mainly due to costlier food items, pushing the rate of price rise above the Reserve Bank's median target of 4 per cent, according to government data released Monday. This is the first time that...

New Delhi: India and Japan at a key bilateral meeting in Tokyo Monday discussed ways to deepen cooperation in emerging domains, including defence industrial collaboration, technological innovation, cyber security, space and other areas of shared strategic interest, officials said. Both sides also expressed satisfaction with...

New Delhi: India's exports rose by 15.5 per cent to USD 40.41 billion in June, even as the trade deficit widened to USD 30.43 billion. Imports in June went up by about 31 per cent to USD 70.84 billion. During April-June this fiscal, exports increased...

Kolkata: The Enforcement Directorate Monday questioned the admissibility of a petition filed by the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress faction before a single-judge bench of the Calcutta High Court challenging ED’s move in the three-bank-accounts freeze case. The three accounts have a combined deposit of Rs...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court Monday directed the Special Investigation Team formed by the Uttar Pradesh government to probe the alleged embezzlement of donation money at the Ram temple in Ayodhya to submit a status report in the matter. A bench comprising Chief Justice Surya...

New Delhi: Meta's reply to the government notice over child sexual abuse material (CSAM) ads on Instagram has been received by Meity and is being examined, IT Secretary S Krishnan said Monday, adding that appropriate action will be taken after examination. The government had issued...