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FILE – Miners work at the D4 Gakombe coltan mining quarry in Rubaya, Congo, May 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa, File) The Democratic Republic of Congo’s government said on Sunday it feared “at least 200 people” had been killed in a “massive” landslide at a militia-controlled mine in the country’s east earlier this week.The announcement…
The Union Budget 2026-27 proposed a series of measures impacting Non-Resident Indians (NRIs) and other overseas individuals, easing compliance in property transactions and widening access to Indian equity markets.Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman presented her ninth consecutive Union Budget on Sunday, becoming the first finance minister in India to achieve this milestone, and also the first…
Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman, presenting her ninth consecutive Union Budget on Sunday, announced several major healthcare measures, including customs duty waivers on 17 cancer drugs and duty exemptions for medicines for seven rare diseases. The finance minister highlighted India’s economic stability, fiscal discipline, and sustained growth under the Narendra Modi-led NDA…
New Delhi: The Union health ministry has challenged in Delhi high court its ruling asking Sir Gangaram Hospital to release the frozen semen of an unmarried dead man to his parents.The ministry’s appeal asked two main questions: Can judges create new heirs, other than a spouse, for children conceived after death, and can gametes/sperm be…
File photo: Union home minister Amit Shah (Picture credit: IANS) NEW DELHI: Union home minister Amit Shah on Saturday mounted a sharp offensive against West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, alleging that her government has failed to protect women, people and land in the state, while allowing corruption and infiltration to flourish for electoral gains.Addressing…
NEW DELHI: Union home minister Amit Shah on Saturday alleged that the deadly Anandapur blaze near Kolkata was “not an accident” but the “result of the Trinamool Congress government’s corruption,” sharpening his attack on chief minister Mamata Banerjee ahead of upcoming elections. “The fire in Anandpur is not an accident. 25 people have lost their…
New Delhi: Economic Survey’s recommendation to amend the Companies Act to lower govt shareholding floor to 26% in state-owned companies, can help govt mop up higher non-tax capital receipts (revenues from disinvestments), the Centre’s top economist said Friday.“In all these years, govt was very clear that the markets are performing very well and it wanted…
NEW DELHI: Is air pollution directly causing deaths in India? The ministry of environment, forest and climate change (MOEFCC) and the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) under health ministry have offered starkly different answers to this question, exposing a policy contradiction at the heart of the govt’s public health and environment response.On Thursday, MOEFCC…
MUMBAI/THANE: Pinky Mali, the 30-year-old flight attendant who died in the plane crash in Baramati along with deputy CM Ajit Pawar and three others, was cremated at Shivaji Park Crematorium in Dadar on Thursday.Her father, Shivkumar, has demanded a thorough probe into the incident.“The company where my daughter worked did not inform us about the…
The US government is set to roll out “Trump Accounts”, a new tax-advantaged investment programme aimed at boosting long-term savings for children, with more than 500,000 families already signed up ahead of its launch this summer, according to a Reuters report.Under the scheme, the US Treasury will deposit $1,000 as seed money into investment accounts…
