New Delhi: India Inc on Friday hailed the Economic Survey saying it expects a stable macroeconomic environment and looks forward to rationalisation of the tax structure in the Budget to drive consumption through higher disposable income. Most industry experts agreed with the survey’s economic growth projection for India ranging from 6.3-6.8 percent for 2025-26, anticipating…
New Delhi: The area occupied by tigers in India has increased by 30 percent over the past two decades, a new study has found. Researchers at the Wildlife Institute of India, Dehradun, and National Tiger Conservation Authority, New Delhi, found that while tigers persisted most in highly protected “human-free, prey-rich” areas, the carnivore species were…
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday launched a scathing attack on the Congress, accusing its “shahi parivar” of insulting President Droupadi Murmu, who hails from a tribal background. In a direct response to Congress leaders’ purported remarks on Murmu over her Friday speech, Modi, at a public meeting in Dwarka, said, “These Congress…
New Delhi: Congress leaders’ comments on President Droupadi Murmu’s address to the Parliament clearly hurt the dignity of the high office and therefore are unacceptable, the Rashtrapati Bhavan said on Friday. The President’s office said it believed it might be the case that these leaders were not acquainted with “the idiom and discourse in Indian…
Hyderabad: Telangana Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy on Friday laid the foundation stone for the construction of a new building of state-run Osmania General Hospital (OGH) here. To be constructed in 26 acres of land, the new hospital complex will have 2,000 beds capacity in 32 lakh Sq Ft of space. The scientifically designed facility,…
New Delhi: AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal went to the Election Commission’s office here on Friday and furnished his reply to the poll body over its notice to him on his “poison mixed” in Yamuna water remark. Kejriwal was accompanied by Delhi Chief Minister Atishi and her Punjab counterpart Bhagwant Mann. The former Delhi chief minister…
Thane: Nine Bangladeshi nationals were arrested from a chawl in Maharashtra’s Thane district for allegedly staying in the country illegally, police said on Friday. Based on a tip-off, the police raided a chawl in the Thakur Pada area of Bhiwandi on Wednesday afternoon, arrested the group and booked the house owner who rented his premises…
New Delhi: The government’s third term is seeing work being done at thrice the speed of previous administrations with a determination to end “policy paralysis”, President Droupadi Murmu said on Friday, citing decisions on issues such as Waqf boards and One Nation, One Election. Addressing a joint session of Parliament, signalling the start of the…
New Delhi: A high drama unfolded outside Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann’s residence in Delhi on Thursday as EC officials tried to conduct a search of the premises following an allegation that money was being distributed from the property ahead of the February 5 assembly polls. Mann, who has been campaigning for AAP in Delhi,…
Washington: US President Donald Trump has announced plans to impose on Saturday a 25 percent tariff on Canada and Mexico, its two neighbouring countries, and is also in the process of considering a similar measure against China. Trump said he would make a decision on Thursday night about whether to include oil in the list…
