The Union Budget ticks all the right boxes by maintaining fiscal prudence and addressing near term issues of stressed sectors, while also maintaining its...
Archive - July 2019
Revenue mobilisation is the single biggest impediment in the investment and consumption oriented budget announced on Friday. Reliance Securities’ prognosis is...
With reports of 49 deaths and 190 positive cases of Japanese Encephalitis (JE), the Assam government has kept on hold leaves for all doctors and paramedical...
Joining the chorus against social media giants and their growing power, Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger has slammed Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and micro...
The ancient Mesopotamian city of Babylon has been declared a Unesco World Heritage Site. Iraq has been lobbying since 1983 for the 4,000-year-old site to be...
As Amazon turned 25, its Founder and CEO Jeff Bezos’ divorce from MacKenzie Bezos — his wife of 25 years — was finalized when a judge signed...
Non-Resident Indian (NRI) businessmen and professionals based in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) unanimously hailed Indian Finance Minister Nirmala...
For all talks of his gritty knocks as an opener and his brilliant man-management skills, what many forget is how useful a left-arm spinner current India coach...
US President Donald Trump has indicated that he might seek an executive order to place a citizenship question on the census, one of several options his...
The Venezuelan government has urged the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, to intervene against the US trade and financial sanctions...
Serbian world No. 1 Novak Djokovic advanced to the fourth round of Wimbledon with a tougher-than-expected 7-5, 6-7 (5-7), 6-1, 6-4 victory over Hubert Hurkacz...
BJP working President J.P. Nadda has set a target of 36 lakh new members for the party’s membership drive in Uttar Pradesh. He said that efforts should...
Space tourism does not pose a significant threat to the environment, former NASA astronaut Mary Ellen Weber said here, stressing that the US space agency is...
Over 67,000 pilgrims performed the Amarnath Yatra during the first five days while another batch of 5,124 yatris left Jammu on Saturday, officials said. The...
A ruling by a British judge has revealed that an Indian origin man, the son of a London-based arms dealer, is suing his estranged wife after learning that he...
Actress Kangana Ranaut is set to star in “Dhaakad”, which will be “one of a kind female-led action film”. The project is helmed by...
In a major administrative reshuffle, the Uttar Pradesh government transferred 30 IAS officers including the social welfare Director, Chief Minister”s...
Affordable housing sector got a shot in the arm in the Union Budget presented on Friday with Central government paving the way for an enhanced interest...
Three grants totalling 7.032 million Hong Kong dollars (about $902,278) from Hong Kong”s Disaster Relief Fund have been approved for cyclone Fani victims...
At the outset, the Union Budget 2019 is an incremental and positive one focusing on all-round development of the Indian economy. The primary focus has been...
The allocation of Rs 60,000 crore for the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme (MNREGA) in the Union Budget presented on Friday is...
In her maiden Budget speech, Finance MInister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday gave Indian Railways the highest-ever outlay for capital expenditure amounting to Rs...
Sri Lanka”s Supreme Court on Friday issued an interim order staying the implementation of the death sentence for convicted drug offenders until October...
China”s Migratory Bird Sanctuaries along the coast of the Yellow Sea-Bohai Gulf were inscribed on the World Heritage List as a natural site on Friday at...
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Friday said the Union Budget 2019-20 does not offer much to the common man or address the major economic challenges faced by the...
The gold industry on Friday slammed the hike in import duty of gold from 10 per cent to 12.50 per cent, saying it will be counter-productive and hit the Indian...
Providing access to safe and adequate drinking water to all Indians is a priority of the Government Jal Jeevan Mission to ensure HarGharJal (piped water...
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented the 1st Union Budget 2019 of second term of the Narendra Modi 2.0 government. Here are the highlights of the...
Venezuelan security forces are sending death squads to murder young men and stage the scenes to make it look like the victims resisted arrest, a new UN report...
“Gully Boy” actor Vijay Varma has started shooting for Nikhil Nagesh Bhatt”s next directorial “Hurdang” in Prayagraj. “We...
Cricket fans are already betting on an India-Australia final at the Lords on July 14 and if things pan out that way, the injuries to Shaun Marsh and Glenn...