New Delhi: India’s manufacturing sector is poised for strong growth and expansion, with 87 per cent of respondents reporting higher or same production levels for the September quarter, a Ficci survey said. In comparison, during the first quarter ended June, 77 per cent of respondents reported higher or the same production levels. Ficci’s latest quarterly…
Patna: Bihar Congress president Rajesh Kumar on Thursday claimed that the party has finalised the seats it will be contesting in the upcoming assembly polls and claimed that consent has been received from “alliance partners”. Talking to reporters here upon his return from Delhi, Kumar said the Congress central election committee has also approved the…
New Delhi: With Prime Minister Narendra Modi welcoming the agreement on the first phase of US President Donald Trump’s peace plan for West Asia, the Congress on Thursday termed as “shameful and morally atrocious” the prime minister’s “unqualified praise” for Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu and slammed his “silence” on the future of an independent and…
Patna: RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav on Thursday promised that if the INDIA bloc helmed by his party came to power in Bihar, it would “bring an Act” to ensure every family in the state had a member with a government job. The opposition leader said the proposed Act will be brought “within 20 days of…
Washington: US President Donald Trump has again claimed that he played a key role in defusing tensions between India and Pakistan by threatening to impose massive tariffs on both countries, saying the move “stopped the fighting” between the two nuclear-armed neighbours. In an interview with Fox News on Wednesday, Trump said his “ability” to use…
Mumbai: India and the UK are natural partners and the partnership between the two countries is becoming a crucial foundation for global stability and economic progress, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Thursday. After wide-ranging talks with visiting British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Modi said the foundation of India-UK relationship is a shared belief in…
Ranchi: Jharkhand witnessed one of its most intense monsoons in a decade this year, leaving behind a trail of destruction across the state. Between June and September, heavy rainfall and associated disasters claimed at least 458 lives, damaged thousands of homes, and ravaged farmlands, official data showed. According to figures compiled from various state departments,…
Mumbai: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday held wide-ranging talks with his British counterpart Keir Starmer, broadly focusing on boosting the India-UK ties in areas of trade, defence and security, and critical technology. The British leader, accompanied by a delegation of 125 of the UK’s most prominent business leaders, entrepreneurs and educationists, landed in Mumbai…
Special Correspondent Hyderabad: Tension prevailed across Telangana on Thursday as police detained several Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) leaders, including the party’s working president K.T. Rama Rao and senior leader T. Harish Rao, ahead of the party’s planned ‘Chalo Bus Bhavan’ protest. The BRS had announced the agitation demanding the immediate rollback of the recent hike…
As anticipated, the Telangana High Court has cleared the decks for the conduct of local body elections by refusing to stay — at least for now — Government Orders (GO) 9 and 41 issued by the Revanth Reddy-led Congress government enhancing reservations for Backward Classes (BCs) to 42 per cent in panchayats and municipalities. The…
