India abstained from a procedural vote taken in the UN Security Council to call for a rare special emergency session of the UN General Assembly on Russia’s aggression against Ukraine. The resolution was adopted with 11 votes in favor, paving the…
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India and Nepal on Thursday agreed to form a joint task force on a proposal to construct a hydropower project from investments of the two neighboring countries. The task force will have a maximum of three members from both countries. The agreement…
The Delhi High Court (HC) put an order by the central bank against the debt recast of shadow lender Religare Finvest on hold until the next hearing. Religare Finvest, a fully-owned unit of Religare Enterprises (REL), said it filed a petition in the Delhi…
India and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) will on Friday sign a Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA), with an aim to more than double the bilateral trade in goods to $100 billion within five years. The first round negotiation was…
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has decided to prematurely redeem sovereign gold bonds (SGBs), which were issued in 2016 at a price of Rs 4,813 per unit of SGB. Under central government rules, the premature redemption is permitted after the fifth year from…
The government is committed to reduce imports and promote self-reliance in the defence sector, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on Tuesday. She said that 68 per cent of capital for the defence sector would be earmarked for the local industry. Sitharaman also…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday paid floral tributes to Mahatma Gandhi on his death anniversary at Gandhi Smriti in Delhi. Earlier in the day, Prime Minister Modi paid floral tribute to Mahatma Gandhi at Rajghat on the 74th death anniversary of the father of the…
India is back on the diplomatic table pushing oil producing countries to raise production in a bid to cool down runaway oil prices. Brent crude oil prices traded above $90 a barrel, on Thursday, for the first time since 2014. Brent is the most…
The government has notified an agreement between Air India and a special purpose vehicle for transferring the carrier’s non-core assets, marking another step in the national airline’s takeover by the Tata Group on Thursday. Ratan Tata, chairman of the salt-to software conglomerate, is likely…
India recorded 3,06,064 new Covid-19 cases and 439 related deaths in the last 24 hours, according to the Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on Monday. While daily cases are fewer than those logged on Sunday when there were more than…