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The ministry will soon seek Cabinet approval for the scheme - called Atal Bhujal Yojana (
These states represent about 25% of the total number of over-exploited, critical and semi-critical blocks in terms of
Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Wednesday hiked the repo rate and reverse repo rate at 6.25
Maintaining a neutral stance, the central bank's six-member Monetary Policy Committee (MPC), in its Monetary Policy Statement reiterated its commitment to achieving the medium-term target for headline inflation of 4
‘GDP growth is projected in the range of 7.5-7.6
A Pakistani journalist and rights activist who openly criticised the military and its alleged meddling in politics was freed early on Wednesday, several hours after being abducted, her family and colleagues said.
The journalist, Gul Bukhari, who is a dual Pakistani-British national, has been an unusually vocal critic of Pakistan`s powerful military on social media in the run-up to the July 25 general election. She has also defended Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) party founder Nawaz Sharif, who has clashed with the military.
Bukhari was on her way to record a TV programme on Tuesday evening on the late-night Waqt news show when her vehicle was intercepted in the cantonment area of the eastern city of Lahore and she was taken away, her husband and two media colleagues said.
NEW DELHI: Indian cricket captain Virat Kohli's wax statue was unveiled at the Madame Tussauds museum in the capital on Wednesday.
Kohli is the latest sporting celebrity after Lionel Messi, Kapil Dev and
"I sincerely appreciate the efforts and incredible work undergone in making my figure. Thanks to Madame Tussauds for choosing me for this lifetime experience. I am grateful to my fans for their love and support.
The Centre has appointed MK Jain, Managing Director and CEO of IDBI Bank, as the RBI’s Deputy Governor.
Jain will fill a position that had been lying vacant since August 2017 after the retirement of SS Mundra.
With the appointment of Jain, the Centre has stuck to the tradition of having a commercial banker occupy this post of RBI Deputy Governor (reserved for bankers). The central bank now has four serving RBI Deputy Governors.
India on Monday received its cheapest LNG under a long-term deal as Russia began shipping natural gas at a delivered price of close to $7 per million British thermal unit.
At current oil prices, the Russian rate is $1.5 per
Oil Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, who flew
Guatemalan authorities have increased the confirmed death toll from the eruption of the Volcano of Fire to 69 as officials suspended the search until dawn on Tuesday.
Fanuel Garcia is the director of Guatemala's National Institute of Forensic Sciences and he announced the higher death toll late Monday. He said only 17 of the dead have been identified so far.
The agency says in addition that 46 people were injured. Nearly 2,000 people are in shelters and more than 3,200 were evacuated from the areas near the volcano west of Guatemala City.
The volcano erupted Sunday, burying people in ash and searing mud that raced down its flanks.
Few of the bodies have yet been identified because the intense heat left them unrecognizable.
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Apple will attempt to frustrate tools used by Facebook to automatically track web users, within the next version of its iOS and Mac operating systems.
"We're shutting that down," declared Apple's software chief Craig Federighi, at the firm's developers conference.
He added that the web browser Safari would ask owners' permission before allowing the social network to monitor their activity.
The move is likely to add to tensions between the two companies.
Apple's chief executive Tim Cook had previously described Facebook's practices as being an "invasion of privacy" - an opinion Facebook's founder Mark Zuckerberg subsequently denounced as being "glib".
Mumbai: A brace from Sunil Chhetri and Jeje Lalpekhlua strike was enough as India strengthened their position at the numero uno spot of the 2018 Hero Intercontinental Cup table with a convincing victory over Kenya.
Widespread anger over economic policies
Jordan’s Prime Minister Hani Mulki submitted his resignation to King Abdullah on Monday, an official source said, to soothe widespread anger over economic policies that have sparked the largest protests in several years and dozens of arrests. Thousands of Jordanians took to the streets of capital Amman and main provincial towns again on Sunday, extending days of protests that have shaken Jordan, a staunch U.S. ally that has remained stable through years of turmoil in the region.
Police chief Major General Fadel al-Hamoud said security forces had detained 60 people for breaking the law during the protests and 42 security force members had been injured, but protests remained under control.