Kathmandu: India will extend a financial package of USD 75 million for the reconstruction of infrastructure in Nepal’s western district affected by last year’s quake, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said on Friday. Jaishankar’s remarks came as he jointly inaugurated with his Nepalese counterpart N P Saud the Tribhuvan University Central Library and other reconstruction…
Chandigarh: Foreign-made weapons, about 300 cartridges, Rs 5 crore cash and more than 100 liquor bottles have been recovered during searches conducted by the Enforcement Directorate against former INLD MLA Dilbag Singh and his associates, official sources said on Friday. The central agency had launched raids against the former legislator and Congress MLA from Sonipat…
Guwahati: Assam received a record investment proposal worth over Rs 11,000 crore in 2023 through which more than 10,000 jobs are expected to be created, Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has said. The chief minister said here on Thursday that a conducive environment for investment was created in 2023 and during the “landmark year”, the…
Mumbai: With the system level liquidity remaining tight, the Reserve Bank on Thursday said it will conduct a seven-day variable rate repo (VRR) auction for Rs 1 lakh crore under LAF (liquidity adjustment facility) on January 5. On reviewing current and evolving liquidity conditions, it has been decided to conduct a variable rate repo auction…
New Delhi: School students from across the country will get a chance to go on a seven-day study tour to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s school in Gujarat’s Vadnagar town, the Ministry of Education said on Thursday. The ministry has launched an online portal for the interested students of classes 9 to 12 to register and…
New Delhi: Sebi on Thursday said Govindayapalli Ram Mohan Rao has taken charge as an executive director and will handle the departments of investigation and internal inspection. Earlier, Rao was the regional director of the eastern regional office of Sebi (Securities and Exchange Board of India). In that role, he had supervised diverse portfolios, including…
Cape Town: India eased to a seven-wicket win in the second Test against South Africa here on Thursday to level the two-match series. Set a target of just 79, India raced to victory in 12 overs as the Test ended after lunch on the second day. Earlier, Aiden Markram scored the most combative hundred of…
Kathmandu: Nepal on Thursday signed a long-term agreement that will facilitate the export of 10,000 MW of electricity to India in the next 10 years during the two-day visit of External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar to the Himalayan nation. The agreement on power export was inked in the presence of Jaishankar and Nepalese Minister for…
New Delhi: The Congress on Thursday renamed the Rahul Gandhi-led Manipur-Mumbai yatra starting on January 14 as ‘Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra’ which will travel through 15 states, including Arunachal Pradesh. This was announced by Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh after a meeting of party general secretaries, state in-charges, state unit chiefs and Congress Legislature Party…
New Delhi: In a major setback to senior Congress leader, Pawan Khera, the Supreme Court on Thursday refused to quash the criminal case registered against senior Congress leader and spokesperson Pawan Khera for his remark against Prime Minister Narendra Modi. “An offence cannot be wished away,” said the two-judge bench of the Supreme Court, headed…
