Agriculture minister Chouhan, Opposition spar over legal guarantee to MSP
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…
Assam’s ‘Moidams’ on UNESCO World Heritage list
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…
IMD issues yellow alert as heavy rain hits Delhi
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…
Shekhar Kapur appointed IFFI festival director
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…
USA, World Cup holders Spain win women’s Olympic football openers
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…
Venkatesh follows in footsteps of Ganguly, Laxman by joining Lancashire
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…
ITC to invest Rs 20,000 crore in five years
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…
Accenture invests in ANSR; to join its Board
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,…
Sensex, Nifty rally up to 1.7% led by IT and metal shares
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…
Aditya Birla Group enters Jewellery Biz with ‘Indriya’
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…
Tourism boom brings Spain’s unemployment rate down
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…
The Laos PM and Jaishankar discuss bilateral cooperation and Indian national trafficking.
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…
Barack and Michelle Obama endorse Harris’ presidential candidature
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 Olympics began with sabotaged trains and bad weather.
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,…
India-US agreement to stop antiquities trafficking
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…
While in Laos for ASEAN, Jaishankar met Wang Yi and Lavrov.
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…
Khan may run for Oxford University chancellor.
ISLAMABAD: Oxford-educated former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan is likely to run for the position of the chancellor of his alma mater in the UK from his prison cell through an online ballot, according to his close aide and media…
Doval addresses BIMSTEC in Myanmar on terrorism and drug trafficking.
NEW DELHI: National Security Advisor, Ajit Doval, is in Myanmar for the BIMSTEC (Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation) meeting of NSA.
Doval is leading the Indian delegation at the 4th annual…
People in China are angry over raising the retirement age.
BEIJING: The ruling Chinese Communist Party's plan to raise the retirement age of the working population to cope with the rapidly ageing population has created ripples of resentment among the public.
According to the present structure,…
Ranil Wickremesinghe to fight presidential election as independent
COLOMBO: Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe on Friday declared his candidacy to contest the presidential election in September as an independent candidate by depositing money to contest the upcoming polls.
Earlier in the day, the…