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There are wide regional variations when it comes to suicides. While Kerala tops the list at 30.6 per lakh population, Bihar has the lowest suicide rate in the country at 0.7.But one factor stands out sharply: income. A vast majority of victims came from households earning less than Rs 1 lakh a year, showing how…
NEW DELHI: Murder cases dipped by around 3% in 2023 compared to 2022, according to data released by the National Crime Records Bureau.In 2023, 27,721 cases of murder leading to 28,587 deaths were registered. In 2022, 28,552 cases of murder, resulting in 29,356 deaths, were registered.As per the report, UP recorded highest number of murder…
PATNA: BJP roped in Bhojpuri singer Pawan Singh on Tuesday in order to fix the loose ends before the assembly elections due in Nov and realise the target set by Union home minister Amit Shah to win 80% of the 48 seats in Shahabad and Magadh regions.Shahabad region has 22 assembly seats. Shah, during his…
Taylor Swift ends all ties with Blake Lively.(Image via Dave Benett/WireImage; Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic) Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce have publicly distanced themselves from Blake Lively ever since she dragged the billionaire pop star into the legal mess with Justin Baldoni. Taylor Swift and Blake Lively have not been spotted together for close to a year and…
NEW DELHI: Average GDP growth rate of 12.2% is needed to start addressing India’s underemployment challenge and a bigger push is needed for a pro-growth, pro-jobs policy agenda to tackle the country’s high youth unemployment problem, a report by investment banking and financial services firm Morgan Stanley has said.“In our base case, India’s GDP will…
Trump claims $500 mn settlement with Harvard US President Donald Trump on Tuesday said that his administration had struck a deal with Harvard University after what he described as months of negotiations. “I guess we reached a deal with Harvard today, so we’ll see how that, all you have to do is paper it right,…
NEW DELHI: The income tax department is set to launch a drive to nudge people who entered into joint development agreements, but didn’t pay capital gains, to deposit the requisite tax. In Kolkata and Bengaluru alone, there are 25,000 to 30,000 such entities have been identified, said sources.Joint development agreements — a deal between real…
NEW DELHI: With the Army, Navy and Air Force yet to resolve their differences over the creation of integrated theatre commands, defence minister Rajnath Singh on Tuesday said the armed forces must break their old institutional silos and move together towards “jointness” to deal with adversaries and challenges across all domains, including cyber & information…
BJP MP Ravi Shankar Prasad NEW DELHI: BJP on Tuesday launched a major onslaught on Congress over former Union minister P Chidambaram’s statement that foreign pressure restrained the Manmohan Singh govt from retaliating against Pakistan after the 26/11 terror attack on Mumbai, saying the country has “paid a heavy price” for sins committed by Congress.BJP’s…
PATNA: Bihar will have a total electorate of 7.4 crore when state assembly elections are held, according to the final electoral roll published on Tuesday by the Election Commission of India. Overall, the voter count has dropped by 6%.The final number of voters arrived at after completion of the special intensive revision (SIR) has fallen…
