The lift-off of the Gaganyaan mission’s unmanned test flight, TV-D1, successfully took place today after initial hiccups. Test Vehicle D1 mission was launched for a lift-off from the first launch pad from Andhra Pradesh’s Sriharikota at 10:00 am. The brie...

NEW DELHI: Slamming the US, the European Union, Japan, Australia and Brazil, which are seeking to limit spending on procurement of rice and wheat by agencies such as FCI, India has asked them to shed their “arrogance” and agree to reforming the global tra...

NEW DELHI: Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on Friday that the government is looking at reducing its debt burden further and has already resorted to prudent spending by resisting the temptation of fiscal profligacy, especially after the pandemic,...

NEW DELHI: Reserve Bank of India (RBI) governor Shaktikanta Das said interest rates will stay high, without offering any indication of when softening could start. Monetary policy must remain “actively disinflationary” to ensure the decline in retail infla...

Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde has ordered nine Shiv Sena ministers to hold a ‘Janta Darbar’ at Shiv Sena Balasaheb Bhavan for five days a week to resolve the problems of the poor related to agriculture, any ministry or at the village or taluka-...

KOLKATACHENNAIMUMBAI: “Lady candidates need not apply.” So read the postscript in a job notice from Telco (now Tata Motors) on a notice board in the corridors of the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (now Bengaluru), in 1974. Irked, Sudha Murty, who...

MUMBAI: The Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI’s) ‘State of the Economy’ report has flagged the US dollar’s continued strengthening as a global risk. This will further tighten financial conditions, according to the report, despite India adding more to its forei...

NEW DELHI: India, on Thursday, launched a new online system of authorisation for import of laptops, tablets, and personal computers, aiming to monitor shipments of such hardware without hurting supply. The restriction-free system comes two months after th...

NEW DELHI: Seeking to improve cash management, the finance ministry has allowed ministries and departments to fully leverage existing sanctions to fund central sector schemes (CSSs), before seeking fresh ones. Sanction orders will be released to new agenc...

Google on Thursday announced that it plans to start manufacturing Pixel smartphones in India. The search giant will produce the Pixel 8 in India and the first units are expected to be available in 2024. The Pixel 8 was launched by the company in India and...

NEW DELHI: The government on Thursday sought to allay the concerns over the decision to put imports of certain computer hardware in restricted category, with mandatory licensing, by coming up with a liberal authorisation process. In what would provide rel...

MUMBAI: The stock market faced a daunting challenge as it opened in the red on Friday, failing to sustain the initial optimism and slipping into negative territory. The benchmark Sensex was down by 182.36 points, opening at 65,446.88, while the Nifty drop...

Elon Musk experienced a significant drop in his fortune, losing $16.1 billion on Thursday, following Tesla Inc’s disappointing third-quarter earnings report, which negatively impacted the company’s shares. Despite being the world’s richest person with a n...

The share of Russian oil in India’s overall imports rose to about two-fifths in the first half of fiscal 2023/24, consolidating Moscow’s position as the top supplier as refiners curbed purchase from the Middle East, industry data showed. India, the world’...

The Samajwadi Party (SP) has announced its second list of 22 candidates for the assembly elections in Madhya Pradesh amid strained ties with its INDIA grouping ally Congress over the formation of an alliance in the state. The SP announced its second list...