India’s foreign exchange reserves declined by $711 million to $681.610 billion in the week ended June 5, dragged down by a sharp fall in foreign currency assets, according to data released by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Friday, PTI reported.The decline follows an increase of $938 million in the previous reporting week, when…
A war that began with airstrikes over Iran is now being felt in places far from the Middle East. On February 28, the US and Israel unleashed Operation Roaring Lion. Dramatic footage of missiles striking military, nuclear and government targets across Iran was broadcast around the world.But as the physical assault unfolded, another battle raged…
Aryna Sabalenka and Serena Williams NEW DELHI: World No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka has welcomed Serena Williams’s return to professional tennis, describing the comeback of the 23-time Grand Slam champion as “very good news for tennis” and admitting she is excited by the possibility of facing the American legend on court.The biggest talking point at the…
The AIADMK has nominated M. C. Sampath from Cuddalore for the Tamil Nadu Assembly Elections 2026, where he will take on TVK candidate V. Rajkumar in the electoral contest.Cuddalore is the headquarters of the Cuddalore district and is a coastal urban-centric constituency. It has traditionally seen a direct face-off between the DMK and AIADMK.In the…
NEW DELHI: Arunachal Pradesh’s electorate has shrunk by almost one-fifth in the draft electoral roll published on Tuesday as part of the special intensive revision (SIR) exercise.Only 80.9% electors in the border state submitted their enumeration forms, while the remaining 19.1% were marked as permanently shifted, absent, dead or enrolled at more than one place.The…
New DHS rules for 9-11 Response and Biometric Entry-Exit Fee for H-1B and L-1 visas will come into effect on September 9 The US government has expanded the scope of 9-11 Response and Biometric Entry-Exit Fee for certain H-1B and L-1 nonimmigrant visas. Under the new rule, H-1B and L1 visa holders seeking extension will…
Greenland sharks entered popular science writing on the strength of one number, 400 years. Some individuals swimming in the North Atlantic today were alive during Isaac Newton’s lifetime, born centuries before anyone thought to ask how old a shark could get. That figure alone would be enough to make the species a fixture of “strange…
NEW DELHI: Rajya Sabha MP Raghav Chadha’s announcement of qutting Aam Aadmi Party and joining Bharatiya Janata Party was not a lone move. It was linked to specific constitutional provisions involving terms such as “two-thirds” and “merger.”“We have decided that we, the 2/3rd members belonging to the AAP in Rajya Sabha, exercise the provisions of…
For millions of street vendors across India’s cities and towns, access to affordable credit was once an impossible dream. Moneylenders charged ruinous interest rates, banks turned them away, and a single setback — a bad monsoon, a city crackdown — could wipe out their entire working capital. PM SVANidhi Yojana, launched in June 2020, changed…
Ex-Bengal minister Udayan Guha (wearing helmet) outside court in Dinhata, West Bengal NEW DELHI: Eggs were pelted on Thursday at Udayan Guha, a Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader and former West Bengal minister, marking the latest incident of a TMC leader being targeted with eggs after the party was voted out of power in the assembly…