Mumbai: The Reserve Bank on Tuesday said 88 per cent of the Rs 2,000 banknotes valued at Rs 3.14 lakh crore have returned to the banking system after it announced withdrawal of the high value currency notes from circulation in May. According to the data received from banks, the RBI said the total value of Rs…
Beijing: President Xi Jinping has sought to project an upbeat picture of the impact of the CPEC projects in Pakistan, saying the China-funded venture is a “vivid testament” to their “ironclad friendship” and vowed to stand firmly with its all-weather ally. China will continue to work with Pakistan to take their strategic ties to new heights,…
Pune: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday shared the stage with NCP chief Sharad Pawar at the Lokmanya Tilak National Award ceremony in Pune. Pawar attended the event held to confer Modi with the Lokmanya Tilak Award in recognition of his ‘supreme leadership’ and for ‘awakening the feeling of patriotism among citizens’. Pawar did not entertain…
New Delhi: Members of the Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (I.N.D.I.A) bloc parties on Tuesday staged a walkout of the Lok Sabha’s Business Advisory Committee, convened by Speaker Om Birla, to protest against the decision to take up the debate on the no-confidence motion on August 8. The Lok Sabha will debate the no-confidence between August…
With the Allahabad High Court’s ruling on whether to go ahead with conducting a scientific survey by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) slated for Thursday, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s off-the-cuff-suggestion during a TV interview has sparked off an interesting row. Although, neither Yogi per se nor his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government…
Gurugram/Chandigarh: A mosque was attacked in the Sector 57 area of Gurugram, leading to the death of a man and taking the toll in the violence that erupted over an attempt to stop a Vishva Hindu Parishad procession in Nuh district to five, police said on Tuesday. Authorities on Tuesday imposed a curfew in Nuh where…
Pune: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday performed pooja at Dagdusheth Halwai Ganesh temple in Pune. Immediately after his arrival in the city from Delhi, the prime minister visited the famous Ganesh temple on Shivaji Road. Modi has become the first serving PM to visit the temple and perform pooja, the temple trustees said. Over the…
(Somashekhar G.V) The family members of D. Karthik, a 20-year-old IIT-H (Hyderabad) student, were distraught when he went missing from his hostel room this July 17. Their agony knew no bounds when his dead body was discovered on a beach in Vishakhapatnam two days later. Though the police did not find any suicide note, it…
Bengaluru: ISRO on Tuesday said India’s third lunar mission Chandrayaan-3 has completed its orbits around the Earth and is now heading towards the Moon. A key manoeuvre to slingshot the spacecraft towards the Moon from Earth’s orbit was carried out in the early hours of Tuesday. This move put Chandrayaan-3 in a translunar orbit moving…
Washington: The US has imposed sanctions on 20 individuals and 29 companies for providing financial support to operations of ISIS and al-Qaeda terrorist groups in the Maldives. State Department Spokesperson Matthew Miller said on Monday that the aim of these designations is to deter and disrupt financial and other forms of support for terrorist activities…
