Srinagar, Higher reaches of Jammu and Kashmir were lashed with seasons first major snowfall on Monday as the weather office forecast improvement in overall weather conditions beginning later afternoon.

An official of the local MET department said hill stations of Gulmarg, Sonamarg, Pahalgam and higher reaches in K

Shimla,  Himachal Pradesh's tourist resort Manali and Shimla's nearby destinations Kufri and Narkanda were on Monday enveloped by a blanket of snow, the season's first, giving the resort and its neighbouring areas a picturesque look.

The timely snowfall has brought cheers on the faces of hoteliers

New Delhi, Centre's fiscal outgo for the measures under the latest stimulus round will be Rs 1.1 lakh crore or 0.5 per cent of the GDP, said a report by Motilal Oswal Financial Services.

Terming the latest measures as "Atmanirbhar Bharat 3.0", Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday had annou

Hyderabad, The Telangana government on Sunday decided that registration of non-agricultural land and properties in the state on the recently launched portal Dharani will begin from November 23.

Chief Secretary Somesh Kumar will formally launch the process.

This was decided by Chief Minister K Chandr

Mumbai, Pro-cyclicals stocks along with faster recovery and the recently announced stimulus are expected to further drive-up the recent market rally.

In financial parlance, pro-cyclical stocks from sectors such as banking, consumer durables, cement, real estate and metals.

However, market observers

New Delhi, As the much-anticipated BPCL privatisation process enters its next phase with the deadline for bid submission ending on Monday, industry sources said that several global energy giants including BP and Saudi Aramco may not bid for the state-run oil major.

Industry sources said that Total and Russian gian

Addis Ababa, The number of confirmed Covid-19 cases in the African continent had reached 1,963,702, the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) said on Sunday.

The continental disease control and prevention agency said in a statement that the death toll related to the pandemic stood at 47,10

Yangon, Myanmar's ruling National League for Democracy (NLD) party, headed by incumbent State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi, has won 920 seats, which is an absolute majority in the November 8 general elections, according to the final result announced by the Union Election Commission (UEC) on Sunday.

In the elect

Nanjing, Chinese President Xi Jinping has stressed efforts to implement the spirit of the fifth plenary session of the 19th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and promote the high-quality development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt.

Jinping, also General Secretary of the CPC Central Committ

New York, Mercurial President Donald Trump has sowed confusion in the post-election transition taking back within hours an admission of defeat by Democrat Joe Biden and now claiming, "We will win."

Trump, who conducts his politics through tweets, appeared to grudgingly concede the election to Biden early