In a significant decision, Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Saturday announced a loan waiver for farmers who owe up to Rs 200,000 to banks till September 30 this year.

"This scheme, called 'Mahatma Jyotirao Phule Loan Waiver Scheme' will be implemented from March 2020 onwards. The upper limit for the loa

After ten days of suspension mobile Internet services in Meghalaya have resumed, an official said on Saturday. The services were suspended following violent protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act.

According to an official of the Meghalaya Home Department, the ban imposed on mobile Internet, bulk messaging services and oper

The Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) on Saturday called for a Dalit priest for the proposed Ram Mandir in Ayodhya and said the temple should be constructed by money given by the society and not the government. The VHP said that this will send a message of social harmony across the country.

As per the orders of the Supreme Court, the Ce

The railways had suffered around Rs 90 crore losses due to damage to assets during the recent violent stir against the new citizens law (CAA) in West Bengal, officials said here on Saturday.

The Eastern Railway was hit the hardest, suffering around Rs 70 crore losses, followed by South Eastern Railways (Rs 16 crore) and Northeast

SBI Chairman Rajnish Kumar on Saturday said that banks cannot lower interest rates beyond a threshold due to asset-liability mismatch issues.

"We can't lower the interest rates without lowering the interest rate for depositors and there is a threshold below which we cannot reduce the interest rate for deposits," he s

Samsung Electronics, South Korea's top electronics firm, ranked second in terms of research and development (R&D) spending last year, slipping from the top spot in 2017, according to an European Union (EU) report.

Samsung spent 14.8 billion euros ($16.4 billion) on R&D, according to the 2019 edition of the EU Industria

Apple sold $6 billion worth of AirPods this year and is set to rake in $15 billion in revenue from the true wireless hearables in 2020, according to the famed Bernstein analyst Toni Sacconaghi.

Apple could sell as many as 85 million AirPods next year, making AirPods the company's third-largest business after iPhones and ipads

In one of the largest single crackdowns on state-backed account in its history, Twitter has banned 88,000 accounts which were part of a significant state-backed information operation originated in Saudi Arabia.

The micro-blogging platform only shared details about 5,929 accounts -- to protect the privacy of potentially compromised

The Bharatiya Janata Party on Saturday directed states to conduct organisational polls as early as possible as all those states where party polls have not been conducted are unable to project the party's face for that state.

BJP's aim is to finish the organisational polls by January 14 so that the election of National Pres

One protester died in police action against the violent protests over the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) in Rampur and Kanpur on Saturday. Several vehicles were set ablaze in Rampur.

The Rampur district administration has not yet confirmed the death of the protester.

In Rampur, the protesters pelted stones, set sev