July 2024

DEHRADUN: A cloudburst on Thursday night unleashed flash floods, causing the Yamuna River to surge dramatically and inflicting widespread damage to properties due to the powerful water currents. The water level rose alarmingly, reaching the…

SRINAGAR: The Jammu and Kashmir Lt Governor administration on Friday liberalised industrial land allotment policy to encourage large-scale investments from big industrialists in the union territory, officials said. The Administrative…

RANCHI: Hearing a Public Interest Litigation seeking a ban on the conversion of tribals in the state through ‘Changai Sabha,’ the Jharkhand High Court on Thursday sought a detailed report on the districts where the conversion of tribals is…

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will chair the 9th NITI Aayog's Governing Council meeting on Saturday, with a focus on making India a developed nation by 2047. The meeting is set to take place at the Rashtrapati Bhavan Cultural…

NEW DELHI: The Rajya Sabha witnessed a ruckus on Friday with the Opposition demanding a legal guarantee on minimum support price (MSP) and Union agriculture minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan accusing the Congress of doing politics in the name…

NEW DELHI/GUWAHATI : ‘Moidams’ – the mound-burial system of the Ahom Dynasty from Assam – have been inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage list. The announcement was made on Friday during the ongoing session of the World Heritage Committee…

NEW DELHI: The commuters traveling on Friday had to face a hard time as moderate to heavy rains lashed the national capital and its adjoining areas leading to severe water logging in several parts of the city, paralysing the normal life of…

Mumbai: Veteran filmmaker Shekhar Kapur, best known for films such as Mr India, Bandit Queen and Masoom, has been appointed as the festival director for the 55th and 56th editions of International Film Festival of India (IFFI), the…

PARIS: Reigning Ballon d'Or Aitana Bonmati scored one goal and helped create another as World Cup holders Spain beat Japan 2-1 in their first game of the women's Olympic football tournament on Thursday, while record four-time gold…

MANCHESTER: India and Kolkata Knight Riders all-rounder Venkatesh Iyer on Friday joined Lancashire for a short stint comprising two Division One matches and One-Day Cup scheduled for next month, the English county announced. Iyer, who…

NEW DELHI: FMCG-to-hotel conglomerate ITC will be investing Rs 20,000 crore over the next five years to enhance structural competitiveness and build an enterprise for the future. About 35–40% of this will be spent on FMCG business, while…

BENGALURU: Accenture has made an equity investment in global capability centre (GCC) platform ANSR, and will join the company’s board of directors. Though the company did not disclose the investment amount, according to reports,…

NEW DELHI: Led by IT and metal stocks, bulls made a roaring comeback on Friday after trailing behind for 5 consecutive sessions. Benchmark indices - Sensex and Nifty- advanced 1.6-1.7% each. The 30-stock pack Sensex rose 1293 pts to close…

NEW DELHI: Aditya Birla Group Chairman, Kumar Mangalam Birla, on Friday announced the launch of the Group's jewellery retail business, marking the Group's foray into the rapidly expanding Rs.6.7 lakh crore Indian jewellery market. The…

MADRID: Spain's unemployment rate dropped in the second quarter, official data showed Friday, as a continued tourism boom added jobs in the services sector. The jobless rate fell to 11.3 per cent between March and June in the eurozone's…

VIENTIANE: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Saturday called on Laos Prime Minister Sonexay Siphandone and raised the issue of trafficking of Indian nationals through cyber scam centres in the Southeast Asian country and discussed…

ATLANTA: Former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama have endorsed Kamala Harris in her White House bid, giving the vice president the expected but still crucial backing of the nation’s two most popular Democrats.…

PARIS: The Paris Olympics were getting off to a rough start Friday, with suspected acts of sabotage targeting France's flagship high-speed rail network and cloudy skies, with rain forecast, over the French capital ahead of its sprawling,…

NEW DELHI: India and the United States of America (USA) on Friday signed the first ever ‘Cultural Property Agreement’ to prevent and curb the illicit trade of antiquities and simplify the process by which stolen and smuggled culture objects…

NEW DELHI: For India, ASEAN is the cornerstone of its Act East Policy and India attaches importance to it said External Affairs Minister, Dr S Jaishankar on Friday in Lao PDR. ``The priority that India attaches to ASEAN and EAS platforms…