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Stock markets in the US displayed minimal movement near their peak levels during the early trading session on Wall Street on Tuesday. The S&P 500 edged up 0.1%, following its recent record high and seven consecutive days of gains. The Dow Jones Industrial Average advanced 90 points, while the Nasdaq composite increased by 0.1%. Overseas…
States must strengthen their financial position to accelerate poverty reduction and ensure sustained development, Iqbal Singh Dhaliwal, Global Executive Director of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), part of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), has said.“The central government’s fiscal deficit is fine, but the state governments are facing considerable challenges in terms…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi with his British counterpart Keir Starmer during a meeting at Chequers Estate, in UK. (Pic credit: AP) NEW DELHI: UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer will visit India on October 8-9 at Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s invitation, ministry of external affairs said on Saturday. This will be Prime Minister Starmer’s first official…
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday unveiled a series of youth-centric initiatives worth over Rs 62,000 crore, with a special focus on poll-bound Bihar. PM launched the Pradhan Mantri Skilling and Employability Transformation through Upgraded ITIs (PM-SETU) – a centrally sponsored scheme with an investment of Rs 60,000 crore.The scheme aims to modernise…
IND vs WI Live Score, 1st Test Match Day 3: India dominated the West Indies in the opening Test, ending Day 2 at 448/5 and a massive 286-run lead. KL Rahul scored his 11th Test century (100 off 197 balls), while Dhruv Jurel (125) and Ravindra Jadeja (104) continued India’s onslaught with stylish centuries, putting…
NEW DELHI: PM Narendra Modi will inaugurate Jan Nayak Karpoori Thakur Skill University on Saturday. By honouring Thakur, NDA govt signalled a strategic outreach to these communities and reinforced backward caste consolidation in the poll-bound state.The launch anchors a series of Bihar-centric youth empowerment initiatives worth over Rs 62,000 crore nationally, with a sharp focus…
Justice Surya Kant (File photo) NEW DELHI: Paying tribute to Mahatma Gandhi and former PM Lal Bahadur Shastri on their birth anniversary, senior-most SC judge Justice Surya Kant Thursday said their life and philosophy guided humanity to focus on villages, self-reliance, simple living and giving a voice to rural masses.Speaking after visiting the Mahatma Gandhi…
Airbus team with various union ministers (image posted by Piyush Goyal and S Jaishankar on X respectively) Airbus’ board members completed their four-day visit to India on Thursday. India represents a crucial market for the aerospace company, as confirmed by an official, as quoted by PTI.The board conducted their first meeting in India since beginning…
Piyush Goyal meets Airbus board led by chairman René Obermann to India NEW DELHI: Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal conducted meetings with Airbus Board members, headed by Chairman Rene Obermann, discussing investment prospects and related matters in India.“Welcomed the @Airbus Board, led by their Chairman, Mr. René Obermann to India. We had an engaging…
Trump and Xi (Generative AI) US President Donald Trump announced plans to use a portion of the revenue collected from tariffs to support American soybean farmers, who he claimed have been hit hard because China, for “negotiating” and not buying their produce. Taking to X, Trump wrote “The Soybean Farmers of our Country are being…
