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IOB set to raise 4,000 crore; Centre’s stake to fall CHENNAI: Close on the heels of the Centre divesting 2.2% of its shares in Indian Overseas Bank (IOB), the public sector bank will raise Rs 4,000 crore through a qualified institutional placement (QIP) in Q4 FY26. The move will further bring down the Union government’s…
NEW DELHI: Congress on Wednesday slammed the Centre’s directions to states to impose a ban on granting new mining leases in the Aravalli range, calling it a “bogus attempt at damage control.”Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh alleged that despite the fresh directive, “the Aravallis are not being saved, but are being sold out,” he said…
Dhaka, Dec 17 (ANI): A large number of people, under the banner of “July Oyikko” (July Unity), hold a protest march to the Indian High Commission, in Dhaka on Wednesday. (ANI Video Grab) NEW DELHI: India resumed operations at its visa application centre in Bangladesh’s Dhaka on Thursday, a day after it was temporarily shut…
The Uttar Pradesh Madhyamik Shiksha Parishad (UPMSP) has released the list of examination centres for 2026 High School and Intermediate examinations. Students appearing for their UP board class 10 or class 12 board exams can now check the complete list of centres by visiting the board’s website, upmsp.edu.in. The board has also opened an objection…
India is well placed to attract large-scale investments in data centres as the country faces no shortage of electricity and its national power grid is capable of meeting future demand surges, Union minister Piyush Goyal said on Monday, ANI reported.Addressing a press conference on the energy sector, Goyal said India’s integrated national grid of 500…
Oracle posted not-so-good quarterly results that fell short of Wall Street’s revenue expectations. Soon a report by Bloomberg claimed that the tech giant has postponed the completion dates for some of the massive data centres it is developing for artificial intelligence (AI) company OpenAI, pushing back timelines from 2027 to 2028. However, an Oracle spokesperson…
Google CEO Sundar Pichai recently hinted at building data centres in space. In an interview with Fox News, Pichai said that the company is working on quantum computing, adding “in that spirit, one of our moon shots is to, how do we one day have data centers in space so that we can better harness…
NEW DELHI: The Centre on Tuesday clarified that the Sanchar Saathi App could be deleted by the user from their mobile phones, adding that the government’s job was only to “introduce this app to everyone”. The clarification came after a massive political row erupted over the government’s dictum to makers to pre-install the app in…
NEW DELHI: The central government’s dictum to makers regarding pre-installation of the Sanchar Saathi application on all mobile handsets manufactured or imported in India has sparked a massive political row over concerns of privacy breach.While the department of telecommunications (DoT) justified the measure as a move for “curbing IMEI misuse”, the opposition has raised red…
The central government’s fiscal deficit stood at 52.6% of the full-year target at the end of October 2025, data released by the Controller General of Accounts (CGA) on Friday showed. In the same period last year, the deficit was 46.5% of the 2024-25 Budget Estimates (BE).In absolute terms, the fiscal deficit – the gap between…
