New Delhi: Opposition leaders on Saturday hit out at the government after the RBI announced the withdrawal of Rs 2,000 currency notes from circulation, with Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge asking if the “second demonetisation” is an effort to cover up the wrong decision made earlier. He also called for an impartial probe into the entire demonetisation…
Hiroshima: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Japanese counterpart Fumio Kishida on Saturday held talks focusing on boosting bilateral cooperation in areas of green hydrogen, high technology, semiconductors and digital public infrastructure. In the nearly 50-minute talks on the sidelines of the G7 summit in Hiroshima, Modi and Kishida also deliberated on ways to synergise…
New Delhi: The CBI on Saturday filed a charge sheet against Congress leader Jagdish Tytler in the Pul Bangash case connected to the 1984 anti-Sikh riots, officials said. Three people were killed and a gurdwara was torched in the Pul Bangash area here on November 1, 1984, a day after the then prime minister Indira…
New Delhi: The NIA on Saturday said an associate of jailed gangster Lawrence Bishnoi has been arrested in a case pertaining to a conspiracy hatched by members of criminal syndicates, based within the country and abroad, to raise funds and recruit youths to carry out terrorist acts in Delhi and elsewhere. The arrested accused, Yudhvir…
Lahore: A Pakistani court on Saturday ordered the release of over 120 supporters of Imran Khan who were taken into custody in Punjab province following violent protests that erupted after the former prime minister’s arrest on May 9. The Lahore High Court (LHC) directed the government to release 123 workers of Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party…
Hiroshima: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday met some of the leading Japanese personalities who were instrumental in promoting Indian culture in Japan, saying such interactions facilitate the deepening of mutual understanding and creating stronger bonds between the two countries. Prime Minister Modi is in Hiroshima to attend three sessions at the G7 Summit following an…
Hyderabad: The city-based AIG Hospitals, one of India’s largest tertiary care facilities, on Friday, which is observed as World IBD Day, shared some scary statistics on the rampant increase of Inflammatory Bowel Diseases in our country. “What looked like a disease of the West 25 years ago is now increasing at an exponential rate in…
Hyderabad: Biotechnology company GeneSys Biologics Pvt Ltd is planning to invest USD 50-60 million to set up a new large-scale recombinant bulk manufacturing facility in Genome Valley here for the production of insulin analogues. The insulin analogues (medical insulin that are altered forms of the human hormone insulin) will be produced in the recombinant bulk manufacturing…
New Delhi: The Indian Navy’s P8I maritime patrol aircraft on Thursday located a Chinese fishing vessel that capsized three days ago in the Indian Ocean, officials said. The position of the boat was “relayed” to China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Navy warships for further assistance, they said. The Chinese vessel named ‘Lu Peng Yuan Yu 028’…
Mumbai: The Reserve Bank of India on Friday approved a Rs 87,416 crore-dividend payout to the central government for 2022-23, nearly triple of what it paid in the previous year. The dividend payout is significantly higher than the amount estimated in the Union Budget 2023-24 from the central bank and state-owned financial institutions. The government…
