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Mumbai: The Reserve Bank of India's (RBI) three-day Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meeting -- led by Governor Sanjay Malhotra -- begins Monday with investors and economists closely tracking the central bank's assessment of inflation, economic growth and the future interest rate trajectory ahead of the...

New Delhi: Counting of votes for the Assembly by-elections in Madhya Pradesh's Datia, Bihar's Bankipur and Gujarat's Manjalpur constituencies commenced Monday morning. The results will be declared later in the day. The bypolls, held July 30, are being closely watched as they are expected to...

Thiruvananthapuram: Widespread rainfall continued to lash Kerala Sunday, leaving several low-lying areas waterlogged and prompting district administrations to declare a holiday for educational institutions in nine districts Monday as a precautionary measure. With rain continuing across large parts of the state, the district administrations of...

New Delhi: India approved just one Chinese FDI proposal worth Rs 1 crore, while clearing 13 applications from Hong Kong worth Rs 610.42 crore in the last financial year, according to official data. These approvals are important as investments from countries sharing a land border...

Ayodhya: A medical student is being questioned by officials in Uttar Pradesh's Ayodhya for allegedly noting down a formula used to make bombs, sources said Sunday. The accused, identified as Sarfaraz, is a first-year Lab Technician student at the Rajshri Dashrath Medical College. According to...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court is slated to hear Monday a plea filed by the Trinamool Congress and its Rajya Sabha member Dola Sen challenging the Enforcement Directorate's (ED) decision to freeze three of the party's bank accounts in connection with an alleged money laundering...

New Delhi: Even days after ending a 23-day hunger strike, AISA president Neha Bora's body is still "not used to food" as it is relearning how to eat. All the same, her frail state did not stop her from travelling across states to raise her...

New Delhi: Petrol and diesel sales by India's three state-run fuel retailers rose sharply in July as below-normal monsoon rainfall boosted fuel demand from farmers and motorists, preliminary industry sales data showed. Petrol sales by Indian Oil Corp (IOC), Bharat Petroleum Corp Ltd (BPCL) and...

Kolkata: The Special Task Force (STF) of West Bengal Police Sunday found a tailoring shop owned by Hamim Mondal, a suspected Jaish‑e‑Mohammed (JeM) member, who was arrested from a posh housing colony in Burdwan town in West Bengal's East Burdwan district. Sources aware of the...

Washington: India's Ambassador to the US, Vinay Kwatra, has said that the Indus Water Treaty (IWT) was signed in a spirit of goodwill and friendship in 1960, but Pakistan spent 50 years dismantling this, and its abeyance "merely acknowledges what Pakistan's conduct had already destroyed"....