NEW DELHI: Retail inflation eased to a three-month low in September as food prices moderated, bringing much-needed relief from surging price pressures, while industrial output growth rose to a 14-month high in August led by a robust manufacturing sector.Reserve Bank of India has decided to keep the repo rate unchanged at 6.5%: Shaktikanta DasData released by the National Statistical Office (NSO) on...
NEW DELHI: The ministry of external affairs on Thursday said that the first charter flight will be reaching Tel Aviv later tonight to pick up Indians and is likely to return to India tomorrow morning.The MEA in a briefing said that Operation Ajay has been launched to bring back Indians from Israel adding that it hasn’t heard of any Indian casualty so far."A charter flight will reach Tel Aviv today...
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday offered prayers at Parvati Kund in Uttarakhand's Pithoragarh. Dressed in local traditional attire, he also played a power drum and conch shell while offering prayers at the spiritually significant Parvati Kund.The Prime Minister will have darshan of the Adi Kailash peak, an abode of Lord Shiva. He is on a day-long visit to Uttarakhand's Kumaon region...
BAREILLY: A 17-year-old girl lost both her legs and left arm after her stalker, 19, allegedly pushed her in front of a moving train in Bareilly while she was returning from NEET coaching on Tuesday. She is currently undergoing treatment in a private hospital here and her condition is critical, said police. Dr OP Bhaskar, who had initially treated the girl, said, "She was brought to hospital with both...
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court, which has traditionally been pro-life, was split Wednesday over choosing between stopping the heart of an over 26-week-old healthy fetus and the choice of its carrier, a married woman, to terminate the pregnancy which is impermissible under the Medical Termination of Pregnancy (MTP) Act.A bench of Justices Hima Kohli and B V Nagarathna, which on Monday had unanimously...
TEL AVIV: Amid the ongoing Israel-Palestine conflict, the Indian diaspora in Israel has expressed confidence in the country's military and said they want to live peacefully.A woman of Indian origin in Ashkelon, Israel, Ilana Nagaukar, told: "Yesterday, a missile struck here, vehicles caught fire and there was a power cut in all these buildings. We feel that we are in danger but we believe in our...
NAGPUR: A male flyer seated next to a 40-year-old woman travelling from Pune to Nagpur for her father's funeral allegedly masturbated and made a lewd gesture at her mid-flight, leading to his arrest after the plane landed at the city airport on Monday.Feroze Shaikh attempted to sneak away while the flyers were alighting, only to be chased by the woman he had allegedly targeted.Her screams alerted...
CHENNAI: Vijayakumar, 64, and his wife Usha Devi, 59, are in a rare mix of relief and tension. Relief because they are with their daughter; tension because they find themselves in a war zone. The couple from Thiruvananthapuram had travelled to Israel last month to spend time with their daughter Anagha, who is pursuing her PhD at Bar Ilan University, Tel Aviv and are now stuck in raging war after...
NEW DELHI: Pushed by the court to either clear the names sent for judgeship expeditiously or be ready for some unpalatable order, the Centre on Monday told the Supreme Court that it cleared 70 names forwarded by high courts for judgeship and sent to the SC collegium and also took the decision to transfer 12 HC judges out of 26 recommended. It also said that the government would soon implement collegium...
SILIGURI: Hope of finding survivors among the 142 people reported missing since Wednesday's monster flash flood in north Sikkim fast faded as nine more bodies washed ashore downstream of the Teesta on Sunday, taking the casualty count to 82.Officials said 49 of the confirmed victims of the flood that cut a swathe through the Teesta basin were found in Jalpaiguri and Cooch Behar districts of Bengal and a...
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