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April 11, 2025 3:33 PM
Union Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal on Friday stressed the need for concrete measures to eliminate existing trade barriers in order to accelerate discussions and finalise a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between India and the European Union (EU). Speaking at the ‘Italy-India Business, Science and Te...
April 9, 2025 11:14 PM
The daring hijack of the Jaffar Express in March 2025 by the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) has once again brought the region’s resentments into sharp focus. The assault, which claimed at least 90 Pakistani soldiers’ lives and saw around 450 passengers taken hostage, highlights the BLA’s co...
April 9, 2025 9:57 PM
Hours after the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) announced a 25 basis point cut in the repo rate, two major public sector banks — Bank of India and UCO Bank — on Wednesday reduced their lending rates, bringing relief to both existing and new borrowers. The RBI’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC), le...
April 9, 2025 8:53 PM
Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, during his visit to Uzbekistan, appreciated the deep interest shown by Uzbek scholars in Indian languages and culture. Interacting with Indologists, teachers, and students at the Lal Bahadur Shastri School in Tashkent, Birla highlighted the scholars' contributions in stre...
April 9, 2025 7:45 PM
President Droupadi Murmu met Slovakian President Peter Pellegrini in Bratislava on Wednesday, with both leaders agreeing to strengthen bilateral cooperation across a range of sectors. The meeting marked the first visit by an Indian President to Slovakia in 29 years. According to the Ministry of Ext...
April 9, 2025 7:40 PM
China will impose 84% tariffs on U.S. goods from Thursday, up from the 34% previously announced, its finance ministry said on Wednesday, firing the latest salvo in a global trade war sparked by U.S. President Donald Trump. Trump's "reciprocal" tariffs on dozens of countries took effect earlier on W...
April 9, 2025 7:13 PM
The National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG) on Wednesday approved a series of projects aimed at pollution control and river rejuvenation in the 61st Executive Committee meeting, chaired by Director General Rajeev Kumar Mital. Among the key approvals, the Executive Committee sanctioned sewerage mana...
April 9, 2025 6:26 PM
The latest Annual Report of the Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS), released by the National Statistical Office (NSO), shows a marginal improvement in labour force indicators across both rural and urban regions of the country. The data, based on the first visit of the PLFS conducted from January to...
April 9, 2025 4:59 PM
Artificial intelligence models may recommend different treatments for the same medical condition based solely on a patient’s socioeconomic and demographic characteristics, researchers warn. The researchers invented nearly three dozen different patients and asked nine healthcare large language AI ...
April 9, 2025 4:22 PM
The Indian stock market ended in negative territory on Wednesday, weighed down by weak global cues and concerns over fresh US trade tariffs, despite a repo rate cut by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI). The central bank’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) reduced the repo rate by 25 basis points to 6...
