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August 7, 2025 11:21 AM
The Election Commission of India has notified the schedule for the Vice-Presidential Election, 2025, through a Gazette of India Extraordinary published today. If required, polling will be held on September 9, 2025. As per the official notificati...
August 7, 2025 9:01 AM
Asian equities rose on Thursday, with Japanese shares hitting a record high, as tech-led gains on Wall Street, upbeat earnings and growing expectations for U.S. rate cuts boosted sentiment. The prospect of a meeting between U.S. President Donald...
August 7, 2025 8:40 AM
Uttarakhand remains on edge as torrential monsoon rains continue to wreak havoc across the hill state. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued a red alert for several districts, warning of heavy to very heavy rainfall till August 12. ...
August 7, 2025 8:33 AM
U.S. President Donald Trump has imposed an additional 25% tariff on imports from India, a move economists say could dent India’s GDP growth in FY26 by up to 0.4%. Sonal Badhan, Economics Specialist at Bank of Baroda, told ANI, “We had initia...
August 7, 2025 8:24 AM
French firefighters were battling on Wednesday to control the country's biggest wildfire in almost 80 years, with the blaze in the southern Aude region having already swept through an area bigger than Paris. One person died in the village of Saint-L...
August 6, 2025 3:38 PM
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday praised Union Minister of State for Textiles, Pabitra Margherita, for highlighting the impressive progress of India’s handloom sector. In a post on X, the Prime Minister’s Office shared Margherita’...
August 6, 2025 3:22 PM
As the Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana (PMJDY) completes a decade, a large number of account holders are now due for re-KYC (Know Your Customer) updates, the Reserve Bank of India said on Wednesday. RBI Governor Sanjay Malhotra, in his Monetary Polic...
August 6, 2025 2:42 PM
Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Sanjay Malhotra on Wednesday said that the recent US tariff hike is not expected to have a major impact on the Indian economy, unless retaliatory tariffs come into play. Addressing a press conference following th...
August 6, 2025 2:32 PM
Eighty years ago, on August 6, 1945, a blinding flash seared Hiroshima’s soul. "Little Boy," a uranium-fueled atomic bomb, unleashed a hellish 7,000°C inferno, reducing 70% of the city to ash and rubble. Steel frames buckled 1.7 kilometres from th...
August 6, 2025 12:40 PM
The Rajya Sabha witnessed fresh disruptions on Wednesday after Deputy Chairman Harivansh declined to admit 35 notices submitted under Rule 267, prompting strong protests from Opposition members. The notices, which sought suspension of regular bu...
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