SHIMLA, JULY 23 (IANS): It may come as a surprise, but a poor family in the BJP-ruled Himachal Pradesh had to sell their cow, a substantial source of income, for just Rs 6,000 to buy a smartphone so that their
RAIPUR JATTAN, July 23 (Reuters): For more than two decades, Indian farmer Ravindra Kajal cultivated rice the way his forefathers had - every June he flooded his fields with water before hiring an army of
MUMBAI, JULY 22 (IANS): Two-and three-wheeler major Bajaj Auto's standalone net profit for the first quarter of 2020-21 fell 53.10 per cent due to Covid-19 pandemic.
The company's net profit during t
New Delhi, July 22 (PTI): India added 37,724 fresh cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday taking the country's tally to11,92,915, while recoveries surged to 7,53,049 with 28,472 people having recuperated in a day,
Lucknow, July 22 (PTI): BSP chief Mayawati on Wednesday said "crime virus" spread by criminals is more active than coronavirus in Uttar Pradesh.
"The way heinous crimes like murder and those a
Balasore (Odisha), July 22 (PTI): India has successfully conducted three flight tests of its indigenously developed anti-tank guided missile 'Dhruvastra' from the Integrated Test Range at Chandipur in O
MUMBAI, July 22 (Thomson Reuters Foundation): Coronavirus quarantine charges levied by an Indian state on migrant workers who are being flown home from Gulf nations will drive many returnees further into d
RAIGAD, July 22 (IANS): Hundreds of angry Bodni villagers, including at least 2 Covid-19 patients, trooped out on the road to defy the government, police and medical teams coaxing them to undergo Covid-19 tests
NEW DELHI, 22 JULY (IANS): A woman resolutely held out against against two motorcycle-borne men who tried to kidnap her four-year-old child in Shakarpur area of east Delhi, forcing them to flee without their bi
NEW DELHI, JULY 22 (IANS): Almost 12 days after the National Investigation Agency (NIA) registered a case in the Kerala gold smuggling issue, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) said on Wednesday it had also regis
NEW DELHI, JULY 22 (IANS): A local court in Uttar Pradesh's Mathura on Wednesday sentenced 11 policemen, including the then Deputy Superintendent of Police, to life imprisonment in a case pertaining to the
CHENNAI, July 22 (Thomson Reuters Foundation): When Bajirao Thengde voiced his fears about going to work after dozens of colleagues fell sick with coronavirus, his boss at a motorbike factory in western India s
NEW DELHI, JULY 22 (IANS): The Supreme Court on Wednesday accepted the appointment of a three-member inquiry commission headed by former top court judge Justice B.S. Chauhan into the encounter of gangster Vikas
NEW DELHI, JULY 21 (IANS): The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) on Tuesday reviewed the progress of the National Broadband Mission (NBM) with officials of several states and Union Territories along with o
NEW DELHI, JULY 21 (IANS): A brazen act of shooting a journalist has been captured on CCTV camera in Ghaziabad. The journalist was shot on Monday night in Vijay Nagar area while he was on a bike with his two mi
NEW DELHI, JULY 21 (IANS): Targeting the next generation of gamers in India, PC and printer major HP Inc on Tuesday unveiled new OMEN laptops and accessories, along with introducing the first 16-inch Pavilion g
NEW DELHI, JULY 21 (IANS): Telecom major Bharti Airtel has renewed its agreement with Swedish gear maker Ericsson to provide pan-India managed network operations, the two companies announced on Tuesday.
The
NEW DELHI, JULY 21 (IANS): E-commerce giant Amazon has confirmed that it will run its Prime Day annual shopping festival in India on August 6-7, a bit later than usual.
Last year, the sales holiday was condu
MUMBAI, JULY 20 (IANS): The Indian equity indices surged on Monday with the Nifty50 on the National Stock Exchange reclaiming the 11,000-mark.
The BSE Sensex settled nearly 400 points higher. Healt
NEW DELHI, JULY 20 (IANS): The economic turbulence due to Covid-19 is expected to push India's debt-to-GDP ratio higher, according to a SBI Ecowrap report on Monday. Together with the declining GDP growth,