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Muzaffarpur: The toll in the hospital fire tragedy in Bihar's Muzaffarpur rose to six with one of the patients taken out from the smoke-filled ICU breathing his last, an official said Friday. The patient died at another health facility, he said. Muzaffarpur District Magistrate Subrat...

New Delhi: The Delhi High Court Friday refused to hear a petition raising law and order concerns arising from digital outfit Cockroach Janta Party's call for a protest at Jantar Mantar June 6 to demand the resignation of Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan over examination-related...

Chennai: Former Tamil Nadu BJP chief K. Annamalai Friday announced his exit from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and unveiled a new movement, ‘We the Leaders’, declaring that it would contest the next Assembly elections in Tamil Nadu. In a video message, Annamalai said his...

Mumbai: Reserve Bank Governor Sanjay Malhotra Friday said the forex reserve stood at a healthy USD 682.3 billion, adequate to provide import cover for about 11 months. Various policy initiatives are expected to strengthen the balance of payments, he said while announcing the second bi-monthly...

Mumbai: Reserve Bank Friday projected the retail inflation for 2026-27 at 5.1 per cent, higher from its earlier estimate of 4.6 per cent, largely due to mounting input costs, triggered by the pass-through of higher global energy prices to retail rates of petrol and diesel....

Mumbai: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Sanjay Malhotra Friday announced that the limits for investment by NRIs and OCIs in equity instruments traded on the stock market without SEBI registration are being increased. Further, the same facility is being extended to all individual...

Mumbai: The Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) Friday unanimously decided to keep the policy repo rate unchanged at 5.25 per cent, in line with the expectations from economists. The Standing Deposit Facility (SDF) rate was set at 5 per cent, while...

New Delhi: In a bid to attract dollar inflow, the government has scrapped long-term capital gains tax on investments made by foreign institutional investors (FIIs) in government securities through an Ordinance issued Friday. The Ordinance has brought changes in the Income Tax Act to provide...

Mumbai: The Reserve Bank Friday lowered its GDP forecast for FY2026-27 to 6.6 per cent from the 6.9 per cent estimated in April, citing elevated energy and other commodity prices as well as continued supply disruptions arising from the conflict in West Asia, which are...

Mumbai: The rupee appreciated 50 paise to 95.24 against the US dollar Friday after the RBI liberalised norms for FPI investment in government securities. Forex traders said the announcements in the RBI policy boosted investor sentiments after the apex bank asserted that the country's forex...