Twenty six pacts worth $22 billion! That was the sum and substance of the pacts signed between the businesses of India and China on Saturday, the major ones accounted for by the Adani and Bharti groups, coinciding with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit here. The pacts were signed against the backdrop of Prime Minister Modi […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is executing his “fast-track diplomacy” -as his government calls it – with gusto: Including his current China visit, he will have been abroad for 53 of 365 days in 17 countries during his first year as prime minister. That’s not very different from Manmohan Singh, who spent 47 of 365 days […]
Targetting Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi on Friday said “acche din” have come for Modi and few businessmen close to him and not for people. He also trained guns on Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao, terming him a “mini Modi”. Addressing a public meeting at Wadial village near here, he […]
The Hindu Janajagruti Samiti (HJS) on Friday demanded the deportation of former porn star Sunny Leone and barring her future entry into India for displaying what it terms vulgarity on her website and insulting the dignity of women. The HJS lodged a first information report (FIR) with Sunil Shivarkar, head of Ramnagar police station in […]
A Jewish-American booked on late Thursday for plotting the escape of an Israeli held for alleged possession of drugs was until some months back responsible for security at the Jewish Chabad house in Mumbai targeted during the 26/11 terror attack, a top police officer said on Friday. Addressing a press conference here, Inspector General of […]
In a worrying start to this fiscal, India’s merchandise exports declined sharply by 14 percent in April and stood at $22.05 billion due mainly to the overall conditions in the global market, while gold imports shot up by 85 percent. The exports contracted from $25.63 billion during April 2014. According to data on exports and […]
A BBC editor has come in for sharp criticism after he compared hate preacher Anjem Choudary to Mahatma Gandhi and Nelson Mandela, a media report said on Thursday. “Against a background of hundreds of Muslims heading off to fight and with people like Choudary whose rhetoric is encouraging them to go, the government thinks this […]
Auto and taxi drivers on Thursday took pledge to make Delhi roads safer for women. They took the pledge in this regard at ‘Gender Sensitization’ workshop held at the Institute of Driving and Traffic Research here. “Delhi is among the cities where rate of crime against women is high. Several untoward incidents also happened with […]
Banking could play second fiddle to Information Technology (IT) in the near future and the RBI is thinking about starting an IT subsidiary, which will help the apex banking regulator to develop policy as well as capabilities in the sector, RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan said on Thursday. Rajan, who was addressing a press conference after […]
The annual rate of wholesale price inflation (WPI) decelerated further to its lowest in six months at (-)2.65 percent for April from (-)2.33 percent for the month before, providing more room for the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to ease its monetary policy stance. The annual rate of inflation based on WPI was 5.5 percent […]