Haryana 14/10: The case involving the death of IPS officer Y Puran Kumar last week in Haryana has gotten even murkier as another death by suicide of a policeman was reported on Tuesday. Speculations are rife over the death of one Sandeep Kumar, posted as an assistant sub-inspector in Rohtak’s cyber cell. Sandeep reportedly made…
New Delhi, 14/10: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has raised India’s growth forecast by 0.2 percentage points to 6.6 per cent for the 2025/26 fiscal year as the country’s strong growth momentum is seen offsetting the impact of high US tariffs on Indian goods. India’s GDP grew at an unexpectedly higher pace of 7.8per cent…
Patna, 14/10: The BJP on Tuesday released the first list of its candidates for the Bihar Assembly elections. The polls will be held in two phases — November 6 and 11 — and the results will be out on November 14. The ruling NDA on Sunday came out with its seat-sharing formula for the elections…
New Delhi: Deputy Chief Minister Kanakvardhan Singhdeo met Shaktikanta Das. Deputy Chief Minister KV Singhdeo, who was on a visit to Delhi, met the Prime Minister’s Principal Secretary Shaktikanta Das. According to reports, the meeting was a courtesy call, Deputy Chief Minister KV Singhdeo mentioned in his X handle. Dr. Arabinda K Padhee, Principal Secretary, Odisha…
Patna, 14/10: Rashtriya Janata Dal president Lalu Prasad gave away the party ticket to several candidates until his son and heir apparent Tejashwi Yadav, early on Tuesday, pointed out that the I.N.D.I.A. bloc, helmed in Bihar by the RJD, was yet to announce a seat seat-sharing formula for the Assembly election formally. A stampede-like situation…
New Delhi, 14/10: The I.N.D.I.A. bloc on Monday struggled to bridge the divide over seat sharing in Bihar with RJD and Congress refusing to find a common ground despite a couple of rounds of negotiations involving top leaders from both sides. RJD chief Tejashwi Yadav held meetings with Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge in the evening…
Stockholm, 13/10: Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt won the 2025 Nobel economics prize for “having explained innovation-driven economic growth”, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said on Monday. The prestigious award, formally known as the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, is the final prize to be given…
Chennai, 13/10: The manufacturing licence of Tamil Nadu based Sresan Pharmaceutical company that allegedly produced the now banned adulterated cough syrup Coldrif has completely been revoked, and the company has been ordered to shut down, the state government said on Monday. The state Drug Control Department officials had during an inspection found the cough syrup…
New Delhi: Calling for an urgent political intervention to end the decades-long Mahanadi river water dispute, retired Supreme Court judge Justice V Gopala Gowda Monday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Chief Ministers of Odisha and Chhattisgarh to come to the mediation table and settle it. Addressing the Mahanadi Sansad, Gowda said the issue remained…
Puri: A rare and disturbing scene was witnessed in Puri of Odisha on Sunday as a scooty vehicle was being taken in a funeral procession. The people on the road were astonished to witness the rare sight. The video of the unusual incident has gone viral on social media. The now viral video showed a scooty…
