- Monday, May 05, 2025
CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury on Wednesday demanded that the government bring out a white paper on the status of the economy referring to India Ratings and Research data which has lowered GDP growth forecast for current fiscal to 4.7 per cent. "This is the third quarter since the growth…
Crude steel production capacity has increased by over 32 million tonnes during the last five years and it is being further expanded by 28 million tonnes per annum, Steel Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said on Wednesday in Rajya Sabha. "The capacity for domestic crude steel production expanded from 109.85 million tonnes…
Congress President Sonia Gandhi's decision should be watched out for, JD(S) patriarch H D Deve Gowda said on Wednesday, in a crytic remark made in the context of December 5 by-polls in the state. ".. what happens after election results, the supreme leader is Sonia Gandhi, what she will decide…
Security was beefed up in Srinagar on Wednesday, a day after two blasts rocked Kashmir killing two persons and injuring several others, officials said. They said security personnel have been deployed at sensitive locations, including a few market places, to keep an eye on miscreants. This is to ensure that…
Over 5,000 preventive arrests have been made in Jammu and Kashmir since August 5 when the Centre announced abrogation of Article 370 provisions, and 609 of them are still in custody, Union Minister G Kishan Reddy said in Rajya Sabha on Wednesday. Nobody has died in police firing since August…
The government on Wednesday said interests of employees of the state-owned carrier Air India would be protected and there would be no job loss till its privatisation. Replying to a supplementary question in Rajya Sabha, Minister of Civil Aviation Hardeep Singh Puri also said that the government would secure a…
The Centre has chalked out a plan envisaging an investment of Rs 100 lakh crore in the infrastructure sector over the next five years, Union Minister Piyush Goyal said on Wednesday. "The investment will transform availability and quality of infrastructure at airports, roads, highways, railways, ports... All infrastructure-related sectors (aviation,…
IN another dramatic twist to the month-long Maharashtra political saga, BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis on Tuesday resigned as chief minister ahead of the floor test, admitting he does not have the numbers shortly after his deputy and NCP leader Ajit Pawar quit. With Fadnavis, who was sworn in by Governor…
OPPOSITION parties, including the Congress and the Shiv Sena, skipped a joint sitting of both Houses of Parliament on Constitution Day Tuesday to mark their protest against the BJP's alleged high-handedness in Maharashtra. Upset over political developments in the state, the opposition parties, including the DMK, the SP, NCP and…
DIGITAL payments company Paytm on Monday (25) said it has raised $1 billion in funding from US-based asset management firm T Rowe Price and existing investors including SoftBank and Alibaba to fund expansion plans. This comes at a time when the country's biggest digital payments firm is facing an intense…
