Doyen of India Inc, Tata Group's Ratan Tata passes away

Mumbai (IANS) Ratan Naval Tata, the Chairman Emeritus of Tata Sons, passed away at the Breach Candy Hospital following age-related health conditions. He was 86. 

Tata was admitted to the hospital on Monday, sparking intense speculation on his…

PM Modi's Laos visit for ASEAN-India, East Asia summits to begin today

New Delhi (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi is all set to begin on Thursday his two-day visit to Laos, where he will attend the 21st ASEAN-India Summit and the 19th East Asia Summit at the invitation of his Laotian counterpart Sonexay Siphandone,…

PM Modi is 'total killer' with nation's adversaries, refused offers of help to deal with threat: Trump

New York (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi is a "total killer" with the nation's adversaries and turned down offers of help when India faced threats, former US President Donald Trump has said. 

"He's great, he's a friend of mine,…

RBI retains repo rate at 6.5 pc, FY25 growth at 7.2 pc

New Delhi (IANS) The Reserve Bank of India's (RBI) Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) on Wednesday decided to maintain the status quo on the repo rate at the current 6.5 per cent, while retaining India's real GDP growth forecast at 7.2 per cent…

PM Modi congratulates Nayab Singh Saini for Haryana poll victory

New Delhi (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday congratulated Haryana Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini for his party's decisive victory in the Assembly elections. 

Union Minister Manohar Lal Khattar -- the former Haryana CM --…

Mixed fortunes for Congress, BJP state chiefs in J&K Assembly polls

Srinagar (IANS) It was mixed fortunes for the J&K unit chiefs of the Congress and the BJP in the Assembly elections as results came out on Tuesday. 

While Congress chief Tariq Hameed Karra secured 18,933 votes to win the Central Shalateng seat…

BJP trumps Congress in topsy-turvy trends in Haryana

 New Delhi (IANS) The early trends of the Haryana Assembly elections have turned out to be a thriller, with Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Congress witnessing a see-saw battle. When counting started at 8 a.m., the Congress took a modest lead over…

JMM protests BJP's 'Gogo Didi Yojana'; Hemant Soren orders action against poll rule violations

Ranchi (IANS) The Jharkhand Mukti Morcha has strongly objected to BJP’s 'Gogo Didi Yojana', announced on Saturday, which promises Rs 2,100 every month to women if BJP comes to power in Jharkhand.  

BJP's scheme appears to counter…

Swachh Bharat Mission: Garhwa, Jharkhand town becomes open defecation free

Ranchi (IANS) Garhwa, a non-descript town in Jharkhand has joined the list of open defecation centres, adding yet another success story to the Clean India Mission. 

The Swachh Bharat Mission, launched on October 2, 2014, has achieved many milestones…

US scientists awarded 2024 Nobel Prize in Medicine for microRNA discovery

Stockholm (IANS) The Nobel Assembly at Sweden's Karolinska Institutet on Monday awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly to American scientists Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional…