Mumbai,  Bollywood star Salman Khan is seen connecting with the finalists of 'Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa 10' while the judge on the dance reality show Madhuri Dixit interacts with 'Bigg Boss 16' contestants and gives her perspective about them.

Salman says: "I am very excited for the grand f

Bhubaneswar,  Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik has urged Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman to withdraw 18 per cent GST imposed on kendu leaves.

In a letter to Sitharaman, Patnaik said kendu leaves, a minor forest produce (MFP) is the financial backbone of about 8 lakhs kendu leaf pluckers, bi

New Delhi,  Rabi area coverage this year has increased by 24.13 lakh hectares over last year.

Taking stock of the Rabi crops position with senior officials, Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar expressed satisfaction that so far, area coverage reported under wheat is 152.88 lakh hectare as compared

Jerusalem,  Israel's rail service has halted due to a nationwide train signaling failure, state-owned Israel Railways said in a statement.

Train operations would remain closed until Sunday morning at the earliest, the company added in a statement on Saturday.

Operations were stopped ov

New Delhi,  Given the growth in the aviation sector it is expected that India is likely to require over 1,000 pilots per annum over the next five years. However, experts have said that the country lacks the adequate pilot training infrastructure to produce trained pilots.

They also said that the number o

Hyderabad,   Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao will inspect the construction works of Yadadri thermal power station on Monday. The project is likely to commission in September next year.

The 4,000 Megawatt power station is billed as the biggest thermal plant to be set up in the public se

New Delhi, The Reserve Bank of India (RBI), during the last meeting of its monetary policy committee (MPC) on September 30, had hiked repo rates by 50 basis points for the fourth consecutive time since May.

The aim was to tighten liquidity and tame inflation. However, inflation has still failed to come down below

Hyderabad,  Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao will lay foundation stone for Hyderabad Airport Express Metro next month.

The 31-km long project will connect the information technology district Hitec City to Rajiv Gandhi International Airport at Shamshabad.

Municipal administrati

Most of the year so far has been about trying to find policy rate peaks in major developed markets (DMs). Expectations here have been continually frustrated thus far as inflation has proven much more resilient than was being previously expected.

There was one plateauing of expectations around the middle of June, post which rate fo

New Delhi,  Raising interest rates to control demand and inflation is not the right solution, as high prices are influenced mainly by supply chain shocks, analysts say.

Global production and supplies were impacted due to the Coronavirus-induced lockdowns between 2020-21 and 2021-22, and now with the Russ