Mumbai Home, auto and other loans may cost less as the Reserve Bank of India today lowered key interest rates for the third time this year to a nine-year low in order give a boost to a slowing economy. The central bank’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC), led by Governor ShaktikantaRead More

NEW DELHI There is no meeting scheduled as yet between PM Narendra Modi and his Pakistani counterpart Imran Khan in Bishkek, the Ministry for External Affairs clarified here today. The two leaders will be attending the summit meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation on June 13 and 14. “To theRead More

New Delhi External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar will embark on a two-day visit to Bhutan from Friday, his first overseas trip after assuming the charge of the ministry. Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson Raveesh Kumar said during the visit, Jaishankar would call on Bhutanese Prime Minister Lotay Tshering and was expectedRead More

New Delhi Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday constituted several committees of the Cabinet and made Home Minister Amit Shah member of all of them. Having dropped Defence Minister Rajnath Singh from all important panels on appointment and political affairs, the government issued a revised list late in the eveningRead More

Noida The police in Noida have arrested three people who were allegedly involved in the robbery at former Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s house, police said. The incident had occured in April in Sector 104 at the house which was on rent. The accused had robbed several other houses asRead More

New Delhi Declining the Central government’s offer to implement the Ayushman Bharat health scheme, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Friday wrote to Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan, saying the city government is “offering ten times bigger and comprehensive health scheme”. In a letter, dated June 7, Kejriwal said replacingRead More

Mumbai The Shiv Sena and the BJP are caught in a fresh tussle over accommodating several smaller parties in the Maharashtra assembly elections due in October, according to sources. While the original plan was that the two outfits would contest 135 each of the 288 seats in the assembly leavingRead More

Lahore Two rival groups opened indiscriminate fire at each other after Eid prayers in Pakistan’s Punjab province, killing at least 10 people and injuring 17 others. The incident took place on Wednesday in Jalalpur Pirwala Tehsil of Multan district. The two groups resorted to indiscriminate firing after a dispute, GeoRead More

Itanagar Tribal villagers had witnessed “thick black smoke” originating from a mountain towards Molo village in Arunachal Pradesh on Monday after an An-32 aircraft of the IAF lost contact with the ground staff on Monday afternoon. “… three persons of Tumbin village stated that on that day and time theyRead More

New Delhi A go-getter in the Modi Cabinet, Union Minister Nitin Jairam Gadkari in his second innings has lined up big plans — from infusing Rs 15 lakh crore in highways to propelling GDP growth by globalising khadi and MSME products. After taking charge of the Road Transport and HighwaysRead More