Mumbai:  Consumer confidence has collapsed amid the coronavirus pandemic and it may result in contraction of the economy by 1.5 percent during 2020-21, surveys released by the Reserve Bank showed...

Islamabad:  Pakistan on Thursday rejected India's concerns over reports of vandalism and destruction of the Buddhist heritage in Gilgit-Baltistan, saying they were “preposterous”. India on Wednesday conveyed its strong concern...

New Delhi:  The Supreme Court on Thursday extended till June 12 the operation of its May 15 order asking the government not to take any coercive action against companies and...

Washington:  The finance ministers of the wealthy G7 nations have said a debt relief initiative for the world's poorest countries could be extended beyond the end of the year to...

New Delhi: India saw a record single-day jump of 9,304 COVID-19 cases on Thursday pushing the nationwide tally to 2,16,919, while the death toll due to the disease climbed to...

New Delhi:   Acting tough, the Home Ministry has blacklisted 2,550  Tablighi Jamaat members from nearly 40 countries who were staying in India during the nationwide coronavirus lockdown and indulging in...

United Nations:  The UN's top human rights official has said that the protests in the US triggered by the custodial killing of George Floyd highlighted "police violence" against people of...

New Delhi:  India implemented a "draconian" lockdown that was porous and ended up with the "worst of both worlds" as it resulted in decimating its economy and flattening the GDP...

New Delhi  :  The central government went for a lockdown to avoid any large-scale fatality due to COVID-19 as its priority was to save people's lives and build health infrastructure...

New Delhi :  CII president and banker Uday Kotak on Thursday opined against any waiver of interest during the moratorium period saying there cannot be an unequal game wherein banks...