- Monday, May 20, 2024
PERSONAL loans have continued to grow at a robust rate and recorded a 13.5 per cent year-on-year rise in March 2021, the Reserve Bank of India said on Tuesday (29). It, however, added that industrial loan growth remained negative during all quarters of the last fiscal. As per the Quarterly…
THE next Assembly elections in Gujarat are still sometime away but the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), which is aiming to emerge the main alternative to the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), seems to be strengthening its support base fast. Prominent diamond trader and social worker Mahesh Savani from Surat in…
PRIME minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday (29) chaired a high-level meeting with defence minister Rajnath Singh, home minister Amit Shah and national security adviser Ajit Doval on “futuristic challenges” in the defence sector, just days after the drone attack in the Indian Air Force’s station in Jammu airport. The top…
INDIAN petroleum minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Tuesday (29) put the state-owned ONGC (Oil and Natural Gas Corporation) and OIL (Oil India Limited) on notice saying oil and gas reserves they hold need to be monetised through joint ventures or the government will auction them away. Speaking at the BloombergNEF Summit…
SOUTH Africa’s Constitutional Court, the country’s topmost judicial body, on Tuesday (29) handed over the country’s former president Jacob Zuma a 15-month jail term for contempt of court after he refused to abide by its order to appear before investigators into corruption when he was in power. Zuma, 79, has…
NINE of the 11 finalists for this year’s US Spelling Bee contest are Indian-Americans, reflecting the kind of dominance that young children from the small ethnic community have had on the prestigious and demanding endurance test for more than a decade now. The 11 finalists are Roy Seligman, 12, from…
THE South Indian state of Kerala has launched a crackdown on the payment of dowry in the wake of deaths of four young married woman that highlighted domestic abuse connected to the custom which has remained in practice despite being banned 60 years ago. State chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan said…
SOON after finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman came up with a slew of measures aiming to see an economic revival on Monday (28), the opposition Congress chipped in to criticise the Narendra Modi government. It claimed the measures that Sitharaman announced will deliver nothing but headlines and opined that the Centre…
THE National Investigation Agency was on Tuesday (29) given the charge of carrying out probe into the drone attack on the Indian Air Force station in Jammu early on Sunday (27). The ministry of home affairs took the decision to hand over the investigation into the first-of-its-kind terror strike that…
SOCIAL media giant Twitter has found itself at the receiving end over a fresh controversy that erupted over displaying a wrong map of India. The police have stepped in to file preliminary charges against senior Twitter officials over the inaccurate map, an official said on Tuesday (29). The incident has…
