New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said he will be attending the G7 Summit later this month in Canada and that he looked forward to meeting his newly elected Canadian counterpart, Mark Carney. PM Modi thanked Carney for an invite to the Summit, scheduled between June 15-17 in Kananaskis, in a telephone call…
Mumbai: The Reserve Bank is all set to raise the loan-to-value (LTV) ratio for lending against gold to 85 per cent for loans under Rs 2.5 lakh from the present 75 per cent, Governor Sanjay Malhotra announced on Friday. Speaking to reporters at the central bank headquarters, Malhotra said the relaxation will come with riders, and…
Katra: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday accused Pakistan of attacking ‘insaniyat’ and Kashmiriyat by targeting tourists in Pahalgam, saying the intent was to trigger communal clashes in India and rob Kashmiri people dependent on tourism of their livelihoods. The prime minister was speaking after flagging off the first train service to the Kashmir Valley,…
New Delhi: The Supreme Court has said anticipatory bail in cases involving serious offences should not be given mechanically. A three-judge bench of Justices Vikram Nath, Sanjay Karol, and Sandeep Mehta observed while setting aside an order of anticipatory bail to four accused in a murder case. “The order of the High Court (Patna) does…
New Delhi: The Congress on Friday took a swipe at the Modi government over fugitive liquor baron Vijay Mallya’s reported remarks that he had informed then finance minister Arun Jaitley before leaving the country in 2016 and said “Narender’s whole system has turned out to be a surrender”. In another jibe, the opposition party also…
Katra (JK): Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Friday raked up the issue of restoration of statehood to Jammu and Kashmir at the flagging off of the maiden train to Kashmir by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in this pilgrim town. “There are four persons on this stage who were present at the inauguration of the Katra…
New Delhi: (Jun 6) Markets regulator Sebi has ordered the attachment of bank accounts and shares, and mutual fund holdings of absconding diamantaire Mehul Choksi to recover dues totalling Rs 2.1 crore in a case of violation of insider trading rules in the shares of Gitanjali Gems. The latest move followed a demand notice issued…
Katra: (Jun 6) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday inaugurated the world’s highest railway bridge over the Chenab river, which was completed for Rs 1,486 crore in more than eight years. The prime minister then walked on the bridge holding the tricolour. After the Chenab bridge, Modi inaugurated India’s first cable-stayed rail bridge over the…
The bromance between Donald Trump and Elon Musk has finally short-circuited. What began as a transactional flirtation between the world’s richest disruptor and the Republican powerhouse has now blown up into a very public, very personal feud — one that could shake the foundations of the Grand Old Party (GOP) in a critical election cycle….
Girja Shankar Dixit Vaman Viswanath Kumar, widely known as VV Kumar, was born on June 22, 1935, in Chennai (then Madras). His journey into leg-spin began during his school days, sparked by a simple curiosity—how a golf ball spun off a wall. This fascination soon led him to experiment with cricket balls, and before long,…
