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New Delhi: Merchants are awaiting a revised rollout date from the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) of Merchant Discount Rate (MDR) charges on select person-to-merchant (P2M) Unified Payments Interface (UPI) transactions. NPCI had deferred the introduction of MDR charges beyond the originally planned October...

New Delhi/Washington: India Tuesday dismissed as "fabricated and malicious" allegations levelled against National Security Adviser Ajit Doval and former R&AW chief Samant Goel in a civil lawsuit filed by Khalistani separatist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun in a US court. New Delhi's remarks came after the US...

New Delhi: More than three decades after former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated by an LTTE suicide bomber, Congress leader Sonia Gandhi has still not seen the photograph of her husband's remains taken in the aftermath of the explosion. In her tell-all memoir, Belonging...

New Delhi: Indira Gandhi cried while watching the harrowing visuals of the aftermath of Operation Blue Star in 1984, says Congress leader Sonia Gandhi, claiming that there were tears of pain and regret as well as of sorrow in the then PM's eyes at the...

New Delhi: Union Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal's upcoming visit to Egypt, accompanied by a high-level business delegation, is expected to boost bilateral trade and investment ties while creating wider regional opportunities for Indian businesses, an industry chamber said Tuesday. The statement from FIEO...

New Delhi: The entire range of bilateral relations between India and Nepal will be discussed during Nepal Prime Minister Balendra Shah’s forthcoming visit to India with the two sides still working out the details, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said Tuesday. “We have extended...

New Delhi: Late former President Pranab Mukherjee's daughter Sharmistha Mukherjee Tuesday hit back at Congress Parliamentary Chairperson (CPP) Sonia Gandhi over her remark in her memoir that the veteran leader once surprised her in 2010 by suggesting that the time had perhaps come for a...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court has asked WhatsApp and other intermediaries to apprise it about their proposed measures to prevent digital arrest scams and related cybercrimes in the country. In an order uploaded on the website with regard to the hearing conducted on October 29...

New Delhi: The Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE) Tuesday announced the schedule for the 2027 board exams, with class 10 and 12 exams set to begin from Feb 15 and 9, respectively. A total of 3,79,980 candidates will appear for the two...

New Delhi: The European Union's ambitions to expand its presence in Southeast Asia through large-scale infrastructure and sustainability projects are facing fresh uncertainty as a prolonged budget dispute in Brussels threatens funding for overseas development initiatives, a report has said. At the centre of the...