Mumbai, 8/12: In a major decision, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Friday announced to raise the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) payment limit to hospitals and educational institutions to Rs 5 lakh from Rs 1 lakh presently and hiked the cap for e-mandates for recurring payments to Rs 1 lakh. Unveiling the December bi-monthly…
New Delhi, 8/12: Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra was on Friday expelled from the Lok Sabha in the ‘cash for query’ matter. The Ethics Committee report was tabled in the House today.
Mumbai, 8/12: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) kept the key lending rate unchanged on Friday with inflation control remaining a major focus amid expectations of a spike in food prices in coming months and better than expected economic growth. The six-member monetary policy committee (MPC), consisting of three RBI and three external members, kept…
Hyderabad, 8/12: Ex-Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao was admitted to the Yashoda Hospital in Telangana on Friday. The BRS party chief is suspected to have fractured his hip at his Erravelli farm house. Doctors are evaluating the condition of the BRS president, who is aged 69, and it might require a surgery, the sources…
New Delhi, 7/12: BJP MP Ramesh Bidhuri on Thursday expressed regret for his remarks against BSP’s Danish Ali in a meeting of the Lok Sabha Privileges Committee, which heard both leaders separately. Sources said Bidhuri in his deposition before the committee noted that senior BJP leader and Union minister Rajnath Singh had conveyed his regret…
New Delhi, 7/12: FBI Director Christopher Wray will visit India next week against the backdrop of Washington’s allegations about an Indian link to a foiled plot to kill a Sikh separatist on American soil. US Ambassador to India Eric Garcetti referred to Wray’s upcoming visit at an event on Wednesday while talking about strength of…
New Delhi, 7/12: A BJP MP from Haryana on Thursday termed live-in relationships a ‘dangerous disease’ that needs to be eradicated from society and urged the government to make a law against it. Raising the issue in the Lok Sabha during ‘zero hour’, Dharambir Singh also said divorce rates in love marriages were high and…
Mumbai, 7/12: The Enforcement Directorate filed its first charge sheet in connection with its money laundering probe against Chinese smartphone maker vivo-India and some others, official sources said on Thursday. The prosecution complaint has been filed before a special court here on Wednesday under the criminal sections of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act and…
Moscow, 7/12: Russia’s upper house of parliament voted on Thursday to set the date for Russia’s presidential election for March 17, 2024. The decision was passed unanimously by 162 votes in the Federation Council. “With this decision, we are effectively launching the start of the election campaign,” Valentina Matviyenko, head of the Federation Council, said….
Hyderabad, 7/12: Congress legislature party leader A Revanth Reddy was on Thursday sworn in as the Chief Minister of Telangana. Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan administered the oath of office and secrecy to Revanth Reddy. AICC president Mallikarjun Kharge, senior Congress leaders Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah attended the ceremony held…
