Dedicating India's 7.6 per cent growth in 2015-16 to the highest level of foreign investment, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Wednesday said it is also noteworthy that such fast expansion has been achieved despite the gloom in the global economic environment. "We have a good growth rate. It is a tribute to public spending in India ...
Former Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) pitch curator Prabir Mukherjee has passed away. He breathed his last at around 10.30 pm on Tuesday night. He was 86. Mukherjee was in charge for nearly 25 years and had also served as the manager of the Bengal and East Zone teams. His association with CAB began in 1979. Mukherjee was suffering...
The toll in Tuesday's massive fire and explosion at India's largest ammunition depot in Pulgaon, in Maharashtra's Wardha district, climbed to 18 with the bodies of two more persons recovered early Wednesday. One person is reported missing in the tragedy, sources said. The bodies of the two persons -- whose identities have yet to be established -...
State-run oil marketers on Wednesday hiked prices of non-subsidised cooking gas and aviation turbine fuel (ATF), a day after increasing petrol and diesel prices. The price of non-subsidised cooking gas, which consumers buy after exhausting their quota of 12 cylinders per year, has been raised by Rs.21 per 14.2-kg cylinder. It will now cost Rs 548.50 in De...
The world's longest and deepest rail tunnel is to be officially opened in Switzerland, after almost two decades of construction work, a media report said on Wednesday. The 57 km twin-bore Gotthard base tunnel will provide a high-speed rail link under the Swiss Alps between northern and southern Europe, BBC reported. The tunnel will o...
Obama visited the Federal Emergency Management Agency's National Response Coordination Centre, where he was told about the preparations being made for the next hurricane season that will hit the US from the east, EFE news agency reported....
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A 62-year-old retired IAS officer was killed after a speeding car hit him here on Tuesday, police said....
Union Commerce and Industry Minister Niramala Sitharaman, contesting for a Rajya Sabha seat from Karnataka, on Tuesday said she would learn Kannada and protect the state's interests....
Goa state RSS chief Subhash Velingkar on Tuesday said the Sangh will boycott all state government functions attended by Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar and BJP politicians in power to protest the government's alleged pro-English policy....
